For months, President Donald Trump had maintained that if he lost his bid for re-election, it would be the result of fraud. Speakers of the evening session, including committee vice-chair U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, spliced their comments with violent, new footage from the Capitol attacks. Rather than simply telling the American public the facts, the panel’s first public hearing focused on showing what former president Donald Trump’s allies and supporters themselves have said and done. The committee could have told the American public that the mob that stormed the capitol was violent. But an avalanche of evidence against a president wasn’t enough to secure the republic then, and it isn’t now.

Source: New York Times June 14, 2022 10:05 UTC