Cassidy Hutchinson is the most explosive witness in the investigation of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol to date.
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riots held a hearing on Tuesday when the former aide to Mr. Donald Trump White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday with the revelation about the former President. The 26-year-old aide recounted the testimony of how President Trump was so adamant that he was at the Capitol on January 6 that he tried to grab the steering wheel of the president’s car and lunged at the head of the department. security after they told him he wouldn’t. push him to the riot.
Trump argues with Secret Service
According to The New York Times, Hutchinson testified that after Trump delivered her speech to a crowd at the Ellipse that day, she returned to the White House and saw Anthony Ornato, a senior Secret Service official. senior, who went to the White House and served as deputy chief of staff. Ornato dragged her into his office, where Trump’s head of security at the time, Robert Engel, was sitting in a chair that “looked like a bit of a mess and a bit out of place,” she said.
Ornato is said to have told her that when Trump entered “The Beast,” aka the president’s heavily armored SUV limousine. He still believes he can make it to the Capitol. Engel told him they couldn’t go for security reasons and that Trump had “a very strong, very angry response,” she said she had been told. She testified,
“The president said something in effect, ‘I’m the effective president, get me to the Capitol now.'”
Cassidy Hutchinson recalls Rudy Giuliani’s January 6 excitement
Trump isn’t the only one nervous about joining the protests. Hutchinson also testified that Giuliani told her on January 2, “’Cass, are you excited for Friday? That will be a wonderful day. ‘”
CBS reports that Hutchinson testified that she asked Giuliani to explain the meaning of January 6. He allegedly replied,
“We’re going to the Capitol. It would be great. The President will be there; he will look very strong. “
After Giuliani left the White House grounds, Hutchinson said she asked Meadows about January 6, and he said, “”Looks like we’re going to the Capitol. There’s a lot going on with Cass, but I don’t know, things could come true, really bad on January 6,'” Meadows told Hutchinson, she recalls.
