Donald Trump did not make a single phone call to security agencies during his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, waiting 187 minutes before telling them to leave, a prime-time hearing on the riots this night
It was Mike Pence, his vice president, who called security chiefs to try to quell the crowd while he was trapped in the building, according to the committee investigating the Washington riots on January 6 last year. He devotes his final session to a “minute-by-minute” breakdown of events in the White House during the invasion of Congress.
Like the season finale of a well-produced drama, the session culminates a series of eight never-before-seen made-for-television congressional hearings, each illuminating a different strand of Trump’s effort to