It was Mike Pence, his vice president, who called in security chiefs to try to quell the mob while he was trapped in the building, according to the commission investigating the riots in Washington on January 6 last year. He devotes his last session to a “minute-by-minute” analysis of the events in the White House during the invasion of Congress. Like the season finale of a well-produced drama, the session features a never-before-seen series of eight made-for-TV congressional hearings, each illuminating a different strand of Trump’s effort to
