Factbox-Trump will return to power in US Capitol Rotunda, site of Jan. 6 riot

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol on Monday, after a sour forecast led planners to move the building’s neoclassical dome for the first time in four decades.

Trump will take the oath of office in the 96-foot (29 m) diameter, 180-foot (55 m) high sandstone room in the center of the Capitol, the same place where some of his supporters protested on January 6. 2021, in an attempt to counter his 2020 election loss. Here’s a look at events similar to January 6 that took place in the Capitol Rotunda.

* Rioters broke windows while fighting police to force their way into the Capitol on Jan. 6, causing damage to the building that the Capitol’s architect estimated at about $1. 5 million. Some wore red MAGA flags and hats, others wore helmets, fuel masks and tactical vests, and were mobbed for photographs. Rioters climbed statues, including those of former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

A man photographed entering the Rotunda with the lectern used by then-Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

* The next day, then-Democratic Rep. Andy Kim stopped on his way to work and knelt on the floor of the Rotunda to pick up trash left by rioters. Kim was elected to the US Senate in November.

* Crews scrambled for days to repair damage, and clear the remnants of chemical irritants fired by police in the battle as they prepared for Democratic President Joe Biden’s inauguration.

* When the US House of Representatives voted a second time to impeach Trump for his conduct on January 6, nine House Democrats officially began his trial on January 25, 2021, when they brought the charges across the Rotunda and they handed them over. to the Senate to be judged. Ultimately, Trump was acquitted in the Senate.

* Former US Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who fought with rioters on Jan. 6 and died the next day, lies in honor in the Rotunda, a popularity reserved for high-ranking elected officials on Jan. 3. February 2021.

He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for defending lawmakers, which his parents, Charles and Gladys Sicknick, accepted on Dec. 6, 2022. They pointedly declined to greet the Senate and House of Representatives then-top Republicans, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy.

* Trump returned to the Capitol for the first time since the riot on Jan. 9, 2025, stopping in the Rotunda to pay his respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29.

(Reporting by Scott Malone; editing by Daniel Wallis)

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