Much is still unknown about what the House select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection will roll out Thursday night in the first of a series of summer hearings. Apparently the "no spoilers" culture that dominates Hollywood has made the leap to Capitol Hill. But the basic conclusion of the committee's findings is coming into focus: What happened in that first week of 2021 was the product of a widespread criminal conspiracy that appears to have tendrils throughout the Republican Party and among thousands of Trump supporters.
"We'll demonstrate the multipronged effort to overturn a presidential election, how one strategy to subvert the election led to another, culminating in a violent attack on our democracy," Rep. Adam Schiff of California, one of the Democrats on the committee, told the New York Times.
