2026年6月17日 下午5:01 ET / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
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更新于2026年6月17日 下午5:08 ET
发布于2026年6月17日 下午5:01 ET
华盛顿特区——1月6日：2021年1月6日，在与唐纳德·特朗普总统举行集会后，支持特朗普的抗议者冲击美国国会大厦。特朗普的支持者当日聚集在首都，抗议选举人团确认当选总统乔·拜登在2020年大选中击败特朗普。
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内容摘要
- 唐纳德·特朗普总统提名的司法部内部监察办公室负责人人选拒绝将1月6日的暴力事件称为袭击。
- 唐·伯蒂奥姆告诉参议员，“袭击”一词意味着有针对特定目标的协调行动。
- 民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔表示，他询问有关1月6日的问题是为了考验提名人是否独立于白宫。
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唐纳德·特朗普提名的司法部监察长人选在确认听证会上多次拒绝使用“袭击”一词来描述2021年1月6日打断国会选举认证投票的暴力事件。
“我不确定自己是否会使用‘袭击’这个词，”司法部监察长提名人唐·伯蒂奥姆周三对参议员们表示，“我的意思是，国会大厦外发生了一些活动——抗议之类的——国会大厦园区内也发生了暴力事件。”
康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔曾询问伯蒂奥姆，国会大厦是否在1月6日遭到袭击，并就他为何不愿将当日事件定性为袭击对提名人进行了盘问。
“当时有抗议活动，人们前往国会大厦园区。有人进入了国会大厦建筑，据我所知，这是违反法律的，”伯蒂奥姆说道，同时强调尽管他承认当日国会大厦外发生了“肢体暴力”，但他“不认同”袭击这一说法。
“在我看来，‘袭击’这个词似乎意味着有针对特定目标的协调行动，”这位提名人补充道。
监察长一职是国会在20世纪70年代一系列水门事件后改革中设立的，旨在调查行政部门机构内的浪费、欺诈和滥用职权行为。
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伯蒂奥姆曾在司法部监察长办公室担任律师，并在其他机构担任监督职务。
在质询的早期阶段，布卢门撒尔询问伯蒂奥姆谁赢得了2020年大选。这个问题曾让特朗普提名的法官和其他政府职位人选陷入困境。伯蒂奥姆效仿其他提名人的策略，表示乔·拜登总统已被参议院“认证”为选举获胜者。
伯蒂奥姆否认曾与白宫讨论过他将如何回答这个问题。
特朗普提名的司法部监察长人选唐·伯蒂奥姆拒绝使用“袭击”一词来描述2021年1月6日国会大厦骚乱中的暴力事件。
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布卢门撒尔周三表示，他询问有关2020年选举结果和1月6日袭击的问题是为了考验提名人的独立性。
特朗普已经采取了多项措施来削弱监察长机构的作用，包括进行未按照国会规定的程序解雇这些官员的大规模裁员。联邦法院认定这些免职行为很可能违法，但拒绝恢复被解雇的监察长的职位。
伯蒂奥姆周三表示，他同意法院关于这些免职行为违反法律的结论。
Nominee for DOJ watchdog says violence on January 6 wasn’t an ‘attack’ on the Capitol
2026-06-17 5:01 PM ET / CNN
By Tierney Sneed
Updated Jun 17, 2026, 5:08 PM ET
PUBLISHED Jun 17, 2026, 5:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters gathered in the nation’s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election.
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Summary
- President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s internal watchdog office refused to call the January 6 violence an attack.
- Don Berthiaume told senators the term attack implies a coordinated effort to target specific things.
- Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he asked questions about January 6 to test the nominee’s independence from the White House.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department’s internal watchdog office repeatedly refused in his confirmation hearing to use the word “attack” to describe the violence on January 6, 2021, that disrupted Congress’ election certification vote.
“I don’t know if I would use the term ‘attack,’” Don Berthiaume, the nominee to be the DOJ inspector general, told senators on Wednesday. “I mean, we had activity outside the Capitol —protests and such — and there was violence on the Capitol grounds.”
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, had asked Berthiaume if the Capitol was attacked on January 6, and he grilled the nominee on why he would not agree to characterize the events of that day as an attack.
“There was protest activity, people went to the Capitol grounds. People entered the Capitol building, which is contrary – as far as I know – to law,” Berthiaume said, while stressing that he didn’t “agree” with the term attack even as he acknowledged the “physical violence” outside the Capitol that day.
“The term attack — to me — seems to imply that there was a coordinated effort to attack specific things,” the nominee added.
The position of inspector general was created by Congress, among a host of post-Watergate reforms in the 1970s, to investigate waste, fraud and abuse within executive branch agencies.
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Berthiaume has experience working as an attorney within the Justice Department’s inspector general office, and has served in oversight roles at other agencies.
Earlier in his questioning, Blumenthal asked Berthiaume who won the 2020 election. That question has tripped up Trump nominees for judgeships and for other government positions. Berthiaume, echoing a tactic used by other nominees, said that President Joe Biden had been “certified” by the Senate as the winner.
Berthiaume denied discussing with the White House how he’d answer that question.
Don Berthiaume, Trump’s nominee for Department of Justice Inspector General, declines to use the word “attack” to describe the violence of the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.
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Blumenthal said Wednesday that he asked questions about the 2020 election results and the January 6 attack as a test of the nominee’s independence.
Trump has taken several steps to undermine the institution of inspectors general, including with mass firings that did not follow the procedures set by out Congress for terminating those officials. A federal court found those removals likely to be unlawful, but declined to reinstate the fired IGs into the positions.
Berthiaume said Wednesday that he agreed with the court’s conclusion that the terminations broke the law.
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