5 takeaways from the Jan. 6 Committee hearing

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivers remarks during a hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation on Thursday, June 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol for almost a year, will present its findings in a series of televised hearings. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON — An important byproduct of the first Jan. 6 Committee hearing on Thursday — something already accomplished by the time the prime-time session wrapped up — was persuasively portraying former President Donald Trump as things he despises:

Weak, in believing crazy election fraud schemes. Delusional, that he could stay in office. And so “dangerous,” after his election defeat, he could not be left alone.