After Hutchinson’s testimony, there were multiple reports about Secret Service agents preparing to contradict her under oath. But none of them have come forward to refute her under oath. (via MaddowBlog)
Cassidy Hutchinson’s recent testimony to the Jan. 6 committee covered a lot of ground, but there was one story that generated a lot of conversation. The former West Wing staffer described a scene, which had been described to her by Tony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official at the time, in which Donald Trump went a little berserk after his Secret Service agents told him he was being taken back to the White House after his speech at the Ellipse, instead of being taken to the Capitol.
“The only description I received was that the president was upset and was adamant about going to the Capitol,” Sergeant Mark Robinson said in deposition testimony. “And there was a heated discussion about that.”a second witness — a person with a national security background given anonymity because of “fear of retribution” — who told the committee that Ornato said the president was “irate” at not being able to the go to the Capitol.
To be sure, some of the provocative details have not yet been definitively proven. Hutchinson, for example, was told about a moment in which Trumpto grab the steering wheel of the Suburban he was riding in, and others have not confirmed that aspect of the story. But there’s nevertheless ample evidence to suggest the then-president, after whipping armed followers into a frenzy with ridiculous lies, desperately wanted to join his mob as it descended on the Capitol — and had a meltdown when that didn’t happen., it’s probably safe to say that once he was inside, presidential oratory wasn’t the plan.
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