Lori Trahan, U.S. Congresswoman representing Massachusetts’ 3rd district since 2019, published a series of posts on January 6, 2026, reflecting on the five-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol and criticizing former President Donald Trump’s actions regarding those involved.
In one post dated January 6, 2026, Trahan stated: “Those pardons included people who assaulted police with flag poles and led coordinated attacks on the Capitol to keep Trump in power.”
She further commented on law enforcement efforts and presidential pardons in another post from the same date: “Law enforcement held hundreds of the most violent attackers accountable. Then Trump erased it all.
Last January, he issued blanket pardons to every January 6th offender, no matter how brutal their crimes.
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Reflecting on the events of January 6, 2021, Trahan wrote: “Five years ago, a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol after Donald Trump spent months lying about the 2020 election.
Police were beaten. Lives were threatened. Democracy was attacked.”
Trahan has represented Massachusetts’s 3rd District in Congress since succeeding Niki Tsongas in 2019 and previously served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1973 and currently resides in Westford. Trahan graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1995.
