Good morning. It has been 18 months since the January 6 insurrection, but the chaotic scenes of people storming the Capitol in Washington DC will be studied for decades to come.
Due to the seismic nature of the events that took place in the wake of the US presidential election, a House of Representatives committee has been conducting a year-long inquiry into the scope of former president Donald Trump’s involvement in the attack – and, crucially, whether any part he played was premeditated. The findings of this inquiry have been made public via a series of prime-time televised hearings that have laid out in meticulous detail who was involved, in what capacity, and what they knew.