The House GOP’s new Select Committee on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack has held its first hearing, but it's clear the trauma of that day still lingers. The hearing Wednesday was billed as an examination of the FBI’s investigation into the pipe bombs that were found outside the Democratic and Republican party headquarters. But it quickly devolved into a revisionist spectacle as Republicans pursued alternative theories about why President Donald Trump’s supporters engaged in mob violence. They suggested the rioters were essentially tricked into laying siege to the Capitol. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said he would not sit by silently as the committee tried to rewrite history.
