The Capitol riot committee mounted its best effort during Tuesday's hearing to underscore Trump’s direct hand in key moments on Jan. 6 and in the weeks before
The Jan. 6 select committee’s Tuesday hearing, ostensibly focused on extremism, drove clearly toward a subtle goal: Stripping away doubt that Donald Trump was anything but a full participant in a plot to subvert the 2020 election.
What ensued was the Capitol riot committee’s best effort to underscore Trump’s direct hand in key moments on Jan. 6 and in the weeks before. According to evidence they laid out on Tuesday: Trump, not his advisers, kept plans for a march on the Capitol secret, but ultimately directed his supporters to march on Congress and even attempted to go himself.
The potpourri of arguments she and other select panel members offered was the latest example of the dual track their public hearings have taken so far. On the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion; on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential criminal case against the former president and his allies.
Tuesday’s presentation put Trump’s conduct more squarely at the center of the devastating consequences that resulted from his choices. His former campaign manager Brad Parscale texted Trump ally Katrina Pierson that he worried Trump’s rhetoric was directly responsible for the death of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by a Capitol Police officer as she attempted to breach a lobby off the House chamber during the riot.
The committee intends to home in on that point even more forcefully at its next — and potentially final — hearing next week, focused on Trump’s inaction as the violence at the Capitol built to a fatal pitch. Trump’s top White House lawyer Pat Cipollone recently told the committee, in testimony that was teased at Tuesday’s hearing, that Trump could have, at any point, stepped to a camera and attempted to quell the unrest.
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