The Viral Spectacle of the Latest January 6th Hearing

, who described her boss tussling over a steering wheel and flinging a ketchup-smeared plate at the wall. Those anecdotes had been alarming; President Trump’s violence had rhymed with that of the rioters. But, on Thursday night, committee leaders homed in on the aftermath of the President’s tantrums, reframing a vigorous crackpot as a television-entranced lunk.

The evening was promoted as a finale of sorts. Yet the proceedings were light on big twists, bombshells that might reconfigure, in real time, Americans’ understanding of the attempted coup. Instead, there was a drip-drip-drip of damning details, and Representatives Elaine Luria and Adam Kinzinger used a reconstructed present tense to bring the familiar narrative to life. Behind the congressional platform, a giant screen featured footage of Trump inciting his supporters.

Since its hearings commenced, in June, the January 6th committee has been telling two stories. The first of these is a horror story; in the course of almost three hours on Thursday night, Trump’s former aides recalled the surreal menace of watching theshock troops breach the Capitol. An anonymous national-security professional, in crackling voice-over, recounted how Mike Pence’s Secret Service agents began to fear for their lives and to call their families.

Again and again, the committee drove home the short distances between various West Wing stations, including the Oval Office, the dining room, and the press briefing room. Trump could have broadcast a video announcement in “probably less than sixty seconds,” his former staffer Sarah Matthews testified. The President’s lassitude was inversely related to his fiefdom’s pointless industry.

For much of his political career, Trump has benefitted from an ability to induce genre vertigo. He speaks of border walls, and you hear the rant of a reality-TV star. He speaks of voting restrictions, and you hear a high-rise mogul sweating to close a deal. Like that of a campy Batman villain, Trump’s clownishness has often amplified his threatening mystique. And so it’s unsurprising that, in its eighth meeting, the committee hosed him down with humor, spotlighting its own sobriety.

xwaldie Is it just me, or does that not really help?

xwaldie The HJ6 committee has done a masterful job investigating & showing us why, how & who instigated the January 6 insurrection & the plot to overturn a valid election. One hopes DOJ finds useful leads to evidence that will compel charges against TFG et al. holdthemaccountable

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xwaldie Homed. Thank you.

xwaldie the 8th hearing was a grim exploration of King Ketchup's descent into insanity..

xwaldie Nothing will happen. He will walk Scott free. As always fked up country

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