Secret Service agents are reportedly willing to testify that ex-president Donald Trump did not attack them when they refused to take him to the Capitol riot, as a former White House aide claimed.
Reports of two Secret Service agents preparing to testify under oath came hours after Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, spoke at the House Select Committee’s sixth public hearing investigating the insurgency of Trump. 6 January examined.
Hutchinson alleged that Trump lunged at Secret Service Chief Agent Robert Engel and the wheel of the presidential vehicle when Engel said they would be driving to the White House instead of the Capitol riot scene.
Another White House aide, Tony Ornato, described Trump as “angry,” Hutchinson claimed during the hearing Tuesday afternoon.
“The president said something along the lines of, ‘I’m the first president, take me to the Capitol now.'”
On Tuesday night, NBC News chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted that “a source close to the Secret Service tells me that both Bobby Engel, the senior agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are willing to testify under oath that neither man was attacked and that Mr. Trump never got to the wheel.” jumped.”
In addition, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi stated that: CBS News that the agency has been working with the Jan. 6 panel since it was formed in the spring of 2021 and “will continue to do so, including by officially responding to the committee regarding the new allegations raised in today’s testimony.” turned up’.
Sources close to the Secret Service said Engel and Ornato both spoke to committee members behind closed doors before reporting and the interviews were taped. But they were not used during Tuesday’s hearing.
During Hutchinson’s testimony, Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that “I barely know her,” “except I’ve heard very negative things about her (a total fake and “leak”).”
On Wednesday, Trump further criticized “the lies and fabricated stories told to the partisan Highly Unselect Committee not just by the fake social climber caught yesterday,” referring to Hutchinson, “but by many others.”
The ex-President called the bills a disgrace to our Nation in grave decline.
Meanwhile, Hutchinson’s attorneys Jody Hunt and William Jordan said on Wednesday that she “stands by all the testimony she gave yesterday, under oath, to the Jan. 6 Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol.”
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