'We were trapped': Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers

'We were trapped': Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers

Bound together by circumstance, sharing a trauma uniquely their own, lawmakers were both the witnesses and the victims of an unprecedented assault on American democracy

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Jan 5, 2022, 9:34 AM

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'We were trapped': Trauma of Jan. 6 lingers for lawmakers

Bound together by circumstance, sharing a trauma uniquely their own, lawmakers were both the witnesses and the victims of an unprecedented assault on American democracy

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