The six House Select Committee hearings on the attack on the Capitol have exposed the seditious lengths Donald Trump and his associates went to try to overturn the 2020 election, from promoting election fraud lies, pressuring state election officials to throw out votes, leaning on Vice President Mike Pence to illegally upend the vote tally, and trying to coerce the Justice Department to falsely claim there was voter fraud.
But Tuesday's hearing was perhaps the most explosive yet. It showed that Trump knew the Jan. 6 mob was armed, but he wanted security precautions lifted anyway; then he egged on his angry supporters and planned to march with them to the Capitol.
An aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testified how Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to grab the wheel of his limousine after his security detail refused to take him to the Capitol following his Jan. 6 speech. The aide also detailed how an unhinged Trump threw his lunch at the wall after Attorney General William Barr refuted Trump's claims about election fraud.
