House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are prepping to battle any GOP effort to minimize the severity of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jeffries said he’s in talks with Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, about the party’s best approach to a new select committee, created by Republicans this week, that will revisit the attack in the coming months.

Republicans have sought to downplay both the violence on Jan. 6 and President Trump’s role in fomenting it. Jeffries suggested he expects the new select committee to continue those trends, warning that Democrats won’t allow Trump’s allies to rewrite the history of the tragic event.

“We will aggressively and forcefully push back against any effort to t

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