By Frankie Taggart and Ulysse Bellier, AFP
Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP
Washington marked five years since a mob overran the US Capitol, with rioters pardoned by Donald Trump retracing their steps even as Democrats revive hearings to hold the president accountable.
The anniversary highlighted a nation divided between irreconcilable accounts of an attack that reshaped American politics -- one supported by official findings of a violent bid to overturn an election, the other portraying it as a protest unjustly criminalized.
"Five years ago today, a violent mob brutally attacked the US Capitol on January 6.
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