Analysis: What the Jan. 6 hearings accomplished — and what they didn’t
The answer, as is usually the case, is complicated. It is also necessarily impossible to offer in entirety, given that we are less than 24 hours removed from the hearing’s conclusion. But there are clear accomplishments that can be articulated and places where the hearings obviously didn’t accomplish the committee’s desired goal..
The committee hearings focused heavily on Trump, by design, but there was a great deal of investigation into the other circumstances surrounding the riot. During the hearings, we were presented with new details about what occurred at the Capitol that day and how law enforcement and elected leaders responded. We got a better sense for how people in Trump’s orbit worked to keep him in power.
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