The House January 6 select committee will use Thursday’s prime-time hearing — the last in the eight-part series it has been conducting since 9 June — to examine what former president Donald Trump did after his Secret Service detail returned him to the White House while a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in hopes of preventing certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Select committee staffers have been referring to the 8pm EST session as the “187 minutes” hearing because it will cover what Mr Trump did between when his speech to a rally on the Ellipse ended at approximately 1.10 pm on January 6 to roughly 4.17 pm, when he recorded a videotaped statement asking his riotous supporters to go home.
