As the Jan. 6 committee’s explosive string of televised hearings resumed Tuesday, the panel focused on “three rings” of the insurrection: Former President Donald Trump’s inside pressure campaign to persuade his vice president to overturn the electoral votes, the coordination between right-wing extremist groups to violently sack the Capitol, and the force of a MAGA crowd willing to march alongside them.
“All of these efforts would converge and explode on January 6th,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the congressional panel, said Tuesday.
Raskin added that “the problem of politicians whipping up crowds” was “the oldest domestic enemy of constitutional democracy in America.”
