WASHINGTON—The Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol held a prime-time session Thursday night aimed toward convincing a divided nation that former President Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election incited his followers to attempt to interrupt the peaceable switch of energy.
The listening to, proven on cable tv and most main broadcast shops, was the primary in a sequence scheduled over the following two weeks. It laid out the committee’s imaginative and prescient of the assault on the Capitol as a watershed historic second for American democracy and a crimson alarm for threats it may face sooner or later.