A former aide has testified Donald Trump knew some supporters gathered for his speech on January 6 were heavily armed and was angry with Secret Service for refusing to take him to the US Capitol. Read the full story here: January6thHearings
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the Select Committee to Investigate the 6 January attack on the United States Capitol hearing on Tuesday, 28 June 2022.Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on January 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the US Capitol where his supporters were rioting, a former aide says.
Mr Trump struggled with Secret Service agents who insisted he return to the White House rather than join supporters storming the Capitol, where Congress was meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's victory over him in the presidential election, Hutchinson testified, citing her conversation with Ornato.
Dozens of courts, election officials and reviews by Mr Trump's own administration rejected his fraud claims. Ms Hutchinson told the committee that Mr Meadows and Mr Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani had sought pardons from Mr Trump, a charge Mr Giuliani later denied in an interview on New York radio.
"We're going to get charged with every crime imaginable," Ms Hutchinson said White House counsellor Pat Cipollone told her if Mr Trump were to go to the Capitol on January 6.
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