Pelosi condemns Trump amid newly reported details of his inaction on Jan. 6

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday lambasted former President Donald Trump for his reported inaction to quell the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

«He incited an insurrection,» the California Democrat told ABC News «This Week» anchor George Stephanopoulos one day after the three-year mark of the riot.

Trump has long maintained he did nothing wrong during Jan. 6 and has downplayed the chaos of that day.

Pelosi invoked the nation's history as she argued the stakes were high heading into the 2024 race, in which Trump is seeking to return to the White House against President Joe Biden.

«I'm proud of the national anthem. And in it, it says 'proof through the night that our flag was still there.' We have to prove through this campaign in the night that our flag is still there with liberty and justice for all and not have an acceptance of Confederate flags under [the] Lincoln dome [at the Capitol] with a president sitting in the White House doing nothing to stop the violence,» Pelosi said. «He talks about the big steal as he can engages in the big lie.»

Pelosi's comments come after new reporting from ABC News on Sunday on previously undisclosed details about how Trump had remained uninterested in getting involved to stop the violence during the riot, according to sources familiar with testimony in the special counsel’s investigation of Trump.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to the felony charges he faces in his federal election subversion indictment. He has denied all wrongdoing and claimed political persecution, which prosecutors reject.

According to ABC News' new report, sources said Trump's former deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino, told special counsel Jack Smith's investigators that Trump «was just not