Jan. 6 committee uses voices close to Trump to make case for a ‘coup’

• The Jan. 6 committee portrays Trump at the center of an 'attempted coup.'
• The clips from depositions were officials who worked for Trump or supporters who revered him.
• Despite the drama, it's not clear whether Americans' minds will be changed by the inquiry.

Donald Trump knew.

At an extraordinary hearing Thursday night, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol made the case that President Trump was told by his own top officials that he had lost the 2020 election. That he deliberately spread misinformation arguing the election had been rigged even after his own daughter had accepted it wasn’t true. That he was determined to hold on to power even though he knew his defiance might lead to violence, perhaps inevitably so.