President Trump Was the Central Player in the Plot to Overturn the Joint Session

The committee has shown evidence that President Trump was aware of the risk of violence. Mounting evidence before January 6 predicted violence, and not just violence generally, but violence directed at the Capitol. Intelligence about this risk was directly available to the U.S. Secret Service and others in the White House prior to the lip speech. Days before January 6, the President's Senior Advisors at the Department of Justice and FBI received an intelligence summary that included material indicating that certain people traveling to Washington were making plans to attack the Capitol.