How long before Trump loses his mind and responds to this?
“Former President Donald Trump would have had to squeeze through an “extremely tight” space to be able to grab the steering wheel of his SUV and lunge at a Secret Service agent, as former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified Tuesday.
It’s not impossible, one former Secret Service agent said, but it’s not likely for the 6-foot-3, nearly 250-pound Trump, who the agent noted is also “not the most agile human being.”
“Trump’s not a little guy, right? And the space to actually be able to lunge towards the wheel is not that big,” the former agent said, speaking on background to Insider. “I don’t mean to sound disparaging to the former president, but just his girth would prevent him from actually getting to the steering wheel.”
First of all, Secret Service guy, tubby passed “almost” 250 lbs. like it was standing still about 10,000 cheeseburgers ago. But let’s see what Twitter had to say about this weighty issue:
Pretty sure this came from someone trying to get Trump to admit he did it, alla Col. Jessep.
DA: Trump is too much of a lard ass to accomplish what is described here.
Trump: Not only am I skinny enough to do it, I almost snapped that guy's neck, when I did.— Axel Brodie (@Axel_Brody) June 30, 2022
Exactamundo, Axel, that’s definitely what’s coming shortly…
I think they’re just baiting him for a confession at this point 😆
— Kaylee Smith (@KayleeRSmith22) June 30, 2022
That doesn't mean that tubby wouldn't give it a shot.
— T.I.S. (@Samule3110) June 30, 2022
Nearest he got was driver’s clavicles I heard…
Love this guys Twitter Pic:
“Of course I did it! It was the greatest steering wheel grab of all time! I choked everyone in the car and they all said ‘Sir, you are the most powerful man we have ever seen’.”
— Gilbert Gobsmacked (@GobsmacGilbert) June 29, 2022
Ronny Jackson would beg to differ.
— SandraD (@SDP2727) June 30, 2022
At least this defense is plausible:
Next they’ll be saying he couldn’t have grabbed the steering wheel because he had a Whopper in his hand…
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/RcOe2Q61Qq
— James F. Love IV (@JamesFLoveIV) June 30, 2022
👇👇👇👇
So we’ve gone from “Trump was too stupid to understand he was committing crimes” to “Trump was too fat to grab the steering wheel.” His supporters are calling him stupid and fat. Works for me, but it’s not an excuse for attempting a coup.
— SeizeTheClay 😷 (@clayartist2) June 30, 2022
Trump read this headline, and now there’s no more ketchup anywhere at Mara Lago.
— LilYellowGirl (@lilyellowgirl) June 30, 2022
😂😂😂
— shirmp (@MrButterChicken) June 30, 2022
The Taft Gambit. Brilliant defensive move.
— Stranger in the Alps (@StrangernAlps) June 29, 2022
Bottom line👇
Who cares? This is a deflection. HE WAS TRYING TO GO TO THE CAPITAL.
— JEANNIE (@WorldPeace33334) June 30, 2022
On a more serious note:
One reason they're not disputing that, apparently, is bc Ornato sent Hutchinson texts about an OTR to get Trump to the Capitol after he got warnings of plans to flood it (and probably also plans of Proud Boy involvement).
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 30, 2022
Ornato is in this up to his earbud – see my last post.
If this is the best they got, everyone in Trump’s orbit is in serious trouble.
When I read the guy who tweeted they were basically now in not only a too stupid but also too fat (to do the stuff he’s accused of) defense I couldn’t help but think of that great scene in Animal House. The one where Dean Wormer says “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son.” Of course, before that scene is over Flounder throws up on the Dean and his big ole desk!
I do rather enjoy thinking of Trump’s reaction if everyone started calling him (former) President Flounder.
Pretty sure diapers weighs in excess of 250#.
Anyone can “lunge” freaking anywhere. That guy from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life would be able to. Now, lunge quickly? Not so much. And getting one’s arm through a small space? How small? One or two inches, probably not. Four to six, probably so. Pictures with accurate dimensions would help.
Thing is, Ms. Hutchinson only testified to what folks told her regarding diapers’ actions. Could be the a-hole who recounted the incident might have gilded the lily.
SUVs don’t have the partitions. So lots more room – and the driver is much closer.
Not that this is important for anythign but the former guy’s state of mind at that time. It may matter to Ornato and Meadows, though – they were deep in this whole thing.
For four years, we had to listen to Trump and everyone around him gloat about Trump’s perfect health. Trump bragged about his health and virility damn near every day. His supporters outright called him the healthiest man to ever hold office. His personal doctor stated that he was in phenomenal shape and that if he ate a bit better, he could live to be two hundred years old. Remember all that bullshit? Now those same people are trying to claim he’s too fat to grab a steering wheel. What crap.
He didn’t have to squeeze his entire, grossly fat body through in order to reach the steering eheel. As a moderstely tall man, all he had to do is reach over the driver’s shoulder with a straight arm, and he’d have been able to clamp his hand onto the steering wheel. Then from immefiately behind the driver, he could have brought his other hand around to the guy’s throat.
My Dad had a Suburban. There is no partition between the driver and the back passenger. This argument by the SS is a load of crap.
Barack Obama is 6’1-1/2″. Standing next to him, Trump is the same height, maybe a tad shorter.
Oh bull shit. A big gut doesn’t stop someone if they’re pissed and he was pissed!
Say it under oath cowards!!!
Trump (under oath): YOU WANT ME ON THAT WALL, YOU NEED ME ON THAT WALL!
Lt. Cathy: So did you try to take the steering wheel? Did you try to choke that man?
Trump (once again, under oath): YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!