The Jan. 6 committee has now held half a dozen hearings and are promising at least two more some time this month.
So we figured it's a good time to reflect on what we've learned so far. Here are five takeaways:
1. For Trump, the crowd was armed, dangerous – and welcome.
The former president knew the crowd had weapons, knew of the intelligence that violence could come on Jan. 6, but according to a White House aide, he didn't care.
Why?
"They're not here to hurt me," he said, per Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. "Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here."
Hutchinson said Trump was "furious" that people who were armed on Jan. 6 were deterred by metal detectors, or magnetometers, and thereby making his crowd appear smaller.
2. A president with a flash temper and desperate to hold onto power.
Throwing plates at the wall because he was upset that his attorney general said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
Grabbing the steering wheel of a presidential vehicle, because he so badly wanted to go to the Capitol with the rioters.
Hutchinson painted a picture of a president unhinged. This isn't the first time people around Trump have described a man with a temper who demanded fealty.
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