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Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the administration of former US President Donald Trump, is leaving after testifying during a public hearing of the US House Select Committee on the January 6 attack on to explore the US capital. at Capitol Hill in Washington, June 28, 2022.
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In scathing testimony before the House Committee investigating the attacks on Capitol Hill, a former aide to then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, portrayed Trump as an angry commander-in-chief in the weeks surrounding the riot.
An angry Trump stormed into his own secret service agent, tossing records and refusing to help his vice president while crowds of angry rioters sang “hang Mike Pence,” Meadows’ former assistant Cassidy Hutchinson told lawmakers in more than two hours ‘s testimony Tuesday that remembered what she heard and saw in the days and weeks surrounding the events of January 6, 2021.
Trump went to his social media page on Truth Social to distance himself from the former assistant and claims he barely knows her.
Here are some important takeaways from the trial.
Trump attacks Secret Service agent
Hutchinson said she was told that the former president had attacked an agent of the secret service after she refused security details to take Trump to the US capital while his supporters rioted in the halls of Congress.
Hutchison recalls a conversation she had with then-White House official Tony Ornato. She told the House panel he explained to her that after Trump told his supporters that he would join them on their march to the Capitol that he insisted on the Secret Service bringing him there.
When Trump got into the presidential limousine, Ornato said Trump was under the impression from Meadows that they were probably still going to the Capitol, Hutchinson testified.
When Bobby Engel, special agent of the secret service, told them they were not going to go because it was not considered safe, Trump “had a very strong, very angry reaction to it,” Hutchinson said Ornato told told her.
“Tony described him as angry,” Hutchinson said. Trump said something like, “I’m the outgoing president, take me to the Capitol now.”
Angel again refused, at which point Trump “went up to the front of the vehicle to grab the steering wheel. Mr. Angel grabs his arm and says, ‘Sir, you must take your hand off the steering wheel. We are going back to the West Wing, “Hutchinson testified.
Trump “then used his free hand to stab Bobby Engel,” Hutchinson said she was told. She added that when Ornato told her this story, he gestured his hands to his collarbone.
Trump was ready with guns at rally
Hutchinson also said Trump told assistants he did not care if his supporters brought weapons to the Jan. 6 rally that continued the attack.
Trump then said words with the effect of: “I do not care that they have weapons. They are not here to hurt me, take away the slight mags. Let my people in, they can march to the Capitol from here. ” Hutchison said in pre-recorded testimony.
She said Trump was good at removing metal detection magnetometers because the president was convinced he was not personally in danger.
Trump told staff Pence served to be hanged
Hutchinson told the committee Trump had indicated to his team that he believed then-Vice President Mike Pence deserved to be hanged. Trump’s supporters repeatedly sang “Hang Mike Pence” after the former vice president helped certify the outcome of the election.
“I remember Pat Cipollone saying, ‘They’re literally asking for the VP to be hanged slightly,'” Hutchinson told the committee. maintenance to describe how the former White House lawyer approached Meadows about the riot.
“You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike deserves it. “He does not think they are doing anything wrong,” Hutchinson said in describing Meadows’ response to Cipollone.
Trump throws lunch against wall
A few weeks before the attacks, in December 2020, Trump threw his lunch and dishes against a wall when he learned that former Attorney General William Barr and the Department of Justice had found no evidence of widespread election fraud, according to Tuesday ‘s testimony.
In the wake of his loss of President Joe Biden, Trump began to claim without proof that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him thanks to widespread voter fraud. His own attorney general later found that there was no evidence to support that allegation.
As news broke that the Department of Justice had found no evidence to support its allegations of election fraud, “I remember hearing noise from the hallway,” Hutchinson testified.
“I left the office and went down to the dining room and noticed that the door had been slammed open and the maid was in the dining room changing the tablecloth from the dining room table,” she testified.
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