After months of closed-door depositions, interviews and subpoenas, the made-for-television public hearing gave committee members their first chance to show Americans what they found.
- At the heart of the panel’s case is a fundamental point: Trump “knew” he lost the 2020 election.
- Committee members argued the Jan. 6 attack was “not a spontaneous riot.”
- Trump’s own advisers and family members didn’t believe in Trump’s efforts to overturn the election.
- A Capitol Police officer who was injured during the attack described a “war scene.”
WASHINGTON — Members of a House Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol began Thursday outlining their case that the insurrection was the final act of an intricate scheme orchestrated by former President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election.
“January 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup,” the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in opening remarks of a prime-time hearing, calling it Trump’s “last, most desperate” attempt to stop the transfer of power.
