Updated On: 23 July, 2022 12:15 PM IST | Washington | Agencies
Some 18 months after the deadly assault, the hearings replayed video of rioters smashing their way into the Capitol, screaming “Hang Mike Pence” as they hunted the vice president who Trump had called on to overturn his election defeat

This exhibit from a video released by the House Select Committee, shows rioters inside the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6, 2021 displayed at a hearing on Thursday. Pic/AP
After losing the 2020 election, Donald Trump ignored close allies who told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were untrue, and when the followers who believed his false accusations stormed the U.S. Capitol, he sat back and watched.
That was the narrative the U.S. House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack laid out in eight hearings over six weeks, which wrapped up with a study of the former president’s actions during the 187-minute assault on Congress by thousands of his supporters.