- Witness: “It was him pouring gasoline on the fire and making it much worse.”
- At the eighth hearing Thursday night, the panel narrowed its focus to that one day and to one man.
- The picture that emerged was of a president most notable for what he wasn’t doing.
The juxtapositions were jarring.
As rioters breached the Capitol on the afternoon of Jan. 6, Secret Service officers guarding Mike Pence on Capitol Hill felt so imperiled that some were calling family members to say good-bye, just in case. Minutes later, watching the mob on his TV at the White House, President Donald Trump was posting a tweet that sharpened the target on his vice president’s back.
