It took six hearings to get to Donald Trump's inner circle.
As Congress was certifying the election results, Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows, testified that Trump was going to go to the US Capitol with his supporters.
During the two-hour hearing, Hutchinson's revelations crashed down on Trumpworld. On January 6, Trump knew his supporters were armed when they flooded the Ellipse to attend his "Stop the Steal" rally, as well as that he said "Mike deserves it" when rioters chanted "hang"
The most damning day of testimony was said to be by a former White House aide.
One former Trump campaign aide told Insider that Hutchinson's descriptions of Trump's crazy behavior at the US Capitol were amazing.
After Attorney General Bill Barr said there wasn't evidence of widespread election fraud enough to change the outcome of the 2020 election, Trump threw dishes and tablecloths in the dining room.
She's talking about how he's throwing food all over the house. The Secret Service is in a lot of pain. The former aide said that the president was trying to head over to a riot. How the sausage is made is something you're hearing a lot. It isn't pretty.
The aide said that Trump should be concerned.
He has no way of responding to this full-frontal attack. The person said that he couldn't.
There was genuine shock among people who are otherwise not inclined to overreact and that something clearly broke through, even among people who had previously dismissed the hearings, according to a lobbyist in touch with ex- Trump officials.
It's hard to dismiss it because it's coming from a source that knows these things. Unless you are going to go out for her credibility, I don't know what to say.
Hutchinson shared that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to grab the steering wheel of his SUV as he demanded to be taken to the Capitol.
Alex was a spokesman for the inaugural committee.
"Today's hearing brought a powerful fact back into focus: Donald Trump is the most dangerous man to have served as president of the United States," said a former Trump administration official who now supports Democrats.
"After this, there's only one thing I'll enjoy about Trump trying to run for president: watching him lose, again."
After the hearings, Trump's supporters tried to undermine Hutchinson's testimony. She was a "total fake" and a "leaker" according to Trump.
He said that he wouldn't work on her post-presidential operation in Florida because he didn't know her very well.
Another swamp climber is making up stories for her. A spokeswoman for Trump's post-presidential office wrote that it was "pathetic".
Brendan Buck, who was counselor to former House Speaker Paul Ryan, said that Republicans recognized Hutchinson, 25, as "somebody who can deliver the goods." Hutchinson was always at Meadow's side.
Buck said that it doesn't matter how old she is. She was in the center of it all. She was able to see everything.
According to Buck, the committee delivered after it suddenly announced the previously scheduled hearing on Monday. He said that the hearing detailed what White House officials understood about their legal jeopardy, the threat of violence, and the president's actions.
"This is the first hearing where we got truly new information, stunning new things that hadn't already leaked out in some way or hadn't been reported somewhere else," he stated.
For the hearings to have a political impact on Trump, the committee needs to conclude that a crime was committed.
He said that there needed to be a point to it. It would cast a big cloud over his ability to run again if he was indicted.
If the select committee convinces Attorney General Garland to indict Trump, he shouldn't expect the kind of professional courtesy that Gerald Ford extended to his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon, according to a former campaign aide.
He is in a bad situation. If he is indicted, the best he can hope for is for Biden to commute his sentence, according to the former campaign aide.
It is possible that others in Trump's inner circle could also be affected. As a result of the mob encroaching on the Capitol, Hutchinson testified that she wantedMeadows to "snap out of this" She said that Rudy Giuliani andMeadows wanted presidential pardons.
If he didn't appear before the committee, Mick Mulvaney predicted, he'd be indicted.
"My guess is that he will eventually show," he wrote.
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