WASHINGTON — After the arrest of a man charged with placing two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties on Jan. 5, 2021, the warning from the Trump administration was clear: If you come to the nation’s capital to attack citizens and institutions of democracy, you will be held accountable.

Yet Justice Department leaders who announced the arrest were silent about the violence that had taken place when supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol and violently clashed with police one day after those bombs were placed — in an attempt to overturn a democratic election.

It was the latest example of the Trump administration’s efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 riot and insurrection, through mass pardons and commutations and the firi

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