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Bloomberg
The televised hearings that begin into the deadly attack on the US Capitol will need to produce show-stopping moments to grab a divided, distracted America that has largely moved on.
It’s a tall order.
At their best, congressional hearings capture the public’s imagination, reveal scoundrels, lead to landmark reforms, and even make stars of questioners and witnesses. But that was before social media and polarized cable news. Now hearings on such things as the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, or Robert Mueller’s fumbling 2019 testimony about his Trump-Russia investigation have failed to make much of a splash.
The committee says it plans to present evidence of a deliberate, coordinated effort by Trump and associates to delay certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election — and how that became tied to the violent insurrection at the Capitol.