The committee has already presented major bombshells, including that former President Donald Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and was told supporters were armed.
But for those who haven’t watched every minute of the hearings — and even for some who have — it can be difficult to process all of the new information and keep it fresh as new bombshells drop. These are the key revelations so far.
Trump was told he lost — fair and square
The ‘fake electors’ plot
Many details of Trump’s campaign to pressure state officials to overturn the election results and appoint alternate electors were already known publicly before the committee began its work.
“I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a post-election phone call that is now the subject of a Georgia investigation, for example.
Pressuring Pence
Trump planned to use a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6 to rally his supporters to march to the Capitol, where he would join them, Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified last week.
She said Giuliani told her four days before the rally, “We’re going to the Capitol. … The president is going to be there. He’s going to look powerful.”
Trump knew supporters were armed
At one point during his rally, Trump was told that some of his supporters were declining to come through magnetometers — metal detectors — because they were armed, Hutchinson testified.
“I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons,” Trump railed, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the f—ing mags away.”
Trump then urged his supporters to march to the Capitol, where extremist groups were waiting to be joined by the mob, and told them he would join them.