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Reaction to the White House aide’s testimony before the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

“I mean you’ve got to admit, though, fighting your own Secret Service agent is genius on Trump’s part — he’s hitting the one person who can’t hit back,” Trevor Noah said.

The former White House aide was compared to John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, whose public testimony was pivotal in describing his role in Watergate.

At a surprise appearance, a White House aide tells a jaw-dropping story of broken dishes and fragile democracy.

The former White House aide provided a fly-on-the-wall account of what former President Donald J. Trump and his top advisers were doing and saying as the attack on the Capitol unfolded.

In the final, frenzied days of his administration, Donald J. Trump’s behavior turned increasingly volatile as he smashed dishware and lunged at his own Secret Service agent, according to testimony.

A “stunning two hours” raises fears of political and legal consequences for the former president.

“I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons” — words that should jolt some of his faithful into deprogramming.

The former White House aide’s revelations about Jan. 6 chipped away at any potential defense that Donald J. Trump was merely expressing well-founded views about election fraud.

Trump and his top aides knew that the Jan. 6 rally was likely to turn violent.