Even after more than a year, the pictures have lost none of their horror.
The public hearings of the committee of inquiry into the storming of the US Capitol make it clear: On January 6, 2021, the USA narrowly escaped a coup d'etat.
"If Mike Pence had followed Donald Trump's plan that day and said: 'There's something wrong with the election,' the USA would have slipped into an absolute mega-state crisis."
In the new episode of SPIEGEL Daily, SPIEGEL-US correspondent Roland Nelles explains what the current hearings are all about.
How risky was the situation for then-Vice President Mike Pence?
Nelles says: "There could have been a bloodbath."
Hear how compliant supporters have bolstered Trump's system of ludicrous lies and pseudo-legality in this podcast episode.
How important individuals were who showed courage.
And why the fear of civil war-like conditions in the event of an indictment against Donald Trump is not unjustified: »That sounds crazy.
But you can think of all sorts of things with all the guns around here.”
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