“Things went very badly for the former president today,” Mick Mulvaney, a former White House chief of staff, wrote on Twitter. “My guess is that it will get worse from here.”
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One trusted current adviser called the testimony “a killer.”…
Current and former aides to Mr. Trump sent one another messages as the hearing took place, describing a series of disclosures that they conceded were potentially quite damaging, mostly politically but also, potentially, legally.
If Mr. Trump was indeed warned that people were armed and still encouraged them to walk to the Capitol, some advisers said privately, that could potentially bolster a charge against him related to incitement.
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