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David Smith in Nashville, Tennessee

EXPLAINED: January 6 hearings make for gripping tv but are voters paying attention | Vintage Vibes

The hearings have featured shocking videos from the violent assault on the Capitol.
The hearings have featured shocking videos from the violent assault on the Capitol. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

Did you see episode three? The president calls his deputy a “pussy” and “wimp” for refusing to support his coup. An angry mob then goes after said deputy wanting to hang him. A legal scholar who cooked up the plan asks the president for a pardon.

Thursday’s congressional hearing into the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol veered into you-couldn’t-make-it-up territory. But while political aficionados were agog, it remained less certain how many citizens were paying attention at lunchtime on a midweek workday.

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