The morning he asked his supporters to march on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump was aware that many were armed.
The police told him.
That January 6, 2021, he tried to go with them to interrupt the session of Congress.
When he was stopped by Secret Service agents for security reasons, he stood up to them.
He then saw on television from the White House how thousands of people stormed the Capitol, doing nothing.
When told that the mob wanted to "hang" his vice president, he replied: "He deserves it."
These details were revealed by Cassidy Hutchinson, an adviser who worked a few meters from the Oval Office, on television before the special commission to investigate those events.
The Justice Department investigation has already led to more than 800 arrests and more than 300 convictions.
To accuse Trump or those close to him of these crimes, the prosecution needs evidence that his intention was to launch the armed mob against the Capitol and that it was not a spontaneous event.
Although the commission has not yet decided whether to refer his findings to the Prosecutor's Office, that is exactly the story he has managed to establish in the six televised sessions.
There is no room for confusion: everything that has happened since the electoral defeat was part of a plan not to hand over power, led by Trump but sustained by scattered support that spurred the former president.
The legal battle, discredited by more than 60 courts, was drawn up by three advisors (John Eastman, Peter Navarro and Rudy Giuliani).
On the political level,
a group of Republicans shamelessly spread lies about the elections.
And finally, on the appointed day, violent supremacists (Proud Boys and Oath Keepers) led an armed uprising carried out by thousands of acolytes who flocked to Washington at Trump's summons.
Several of these key figures tried to obtain a presidential pardon from Trump in the days that followed to shield themselves from justice.
There can be no greater admission of guilt.
Several of these key figures tried to obtain a presidential pardon from Trump in the days that followed to shield themselves from justice.
There can be no greater admission of guilt.
Several of these key figures tried to obtain a presidential pardon from Trump in the days that followed to shield themselves from justice.
There can be no greater admission of guilt.
All those involved were aware that there was no basis to dispute the electoral result.
In another unprecedented moment, Trump's attorney general, William Barr, declared the alleged election theft to be "a hoax."
The former president's own daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, agreed that there was no fraud.
She was told the same thing by campaign lawyers, White House lawyers, her campaign manager and her election data specialist.
In Barr's words, the president "was not interested in the real facts," only in the voices of the group of conspirators who irresponsibly gilded his ego to the point of putting democracy itself on the ropes.
Almost all questions are already answered.
Justice is missing.
