Republicans try to reframe January 6 as a sightseeing tour – will it work?

Now in control of the House, Republicans are making light of the violence of the day and assailing the investigation into the Capitol attack

It might be thought that Republicans would prefer not to remind Americans of the day their president nearly destroyed US democracy.

But the party's right wing is going all in to rewrite the history of the 6 January 2021 storming of the Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters, and to make political martyrs of those imprisoned for assaulting police officers and sending politicians fleeing as the mob attempted to stop Congress from endorsing Joe Biden's election victory.