How the Capitol attack still divides the United States

A year ago today, Donald Trump made a speech to his supporters contesting the election result and encouraging them to march on Congress. The riot that ensued was unlike anything seen before in American politics. Many hoped a line would subsequently be drawn in the sand and that politicians would come together in solidarity to ensure that nothing of the sort could happen again.

But as the Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief, David Smith, tells Nosheen Iqbal, that is not what has happened in the weeks and month since the attack. Instead, two distinct narratives have evolved: on the one hand, those who are being led by the mountains of documentary evidence and on the other, those sympathetic to the former president downplaying the events of 6 January and falsely blaming leftwing agitators.

The reporter Nick Robins-Early describes the huge investigation being carried out by the FBI to bring charges against hundreds of people. He says that one of the big unanswered questions at the heart of that investigation is how much planning and coordination went into the insurrection.