It’s beginning to make more and more sense why the January 6 Committee postponed its next hearing. It’s also beginning to make more sense why Donald Trump has lashed out at Cassidy Hutchinson, calling her “sick” a “liar” etc. ad nauseum. She was telling the truth, not that anyone doubted it, but now she’s got the corroboration she needs. CNN:
A Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the US Capitol after his rally, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
The officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was in the motorcade with the Secret Service for Trump on January 6 and recounted what was seen to committee investigators, according to the source.
The description of the angry exchange between Trump and his Secret Service detail was a striking moment during the June testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson said that she heard a secondhand account told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato that Trump was so enraged at his Secret Service detail for blocking him from going to the Capitol on the day of the insurrection that “he reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel” and “then used his free hand to lunge towards” his Secret Service lead agent Robert Engel. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her the story in front of Engel and he did not dispute the account.
Then as you recall, some unnamed Secret Service source said that Engel would testify things didn’t happen that way. And of course right-wing media went nuts. Let’s see what they do with this story.
And isn’t it intriguing that we find out that along with this story and the original story Hutchinson told, we find out that text messages are magically missing, due to the “replacement” of “devices.”
I hope the January 6 Committee takes all the time they need. I want to see them get it right.
Gee, former guy sounds a bit…unhinged.
Corroboration from a sworn law enforcement officer would go a long way to legitimize Hutchinson’s testimony. And the officer woud presumably be immune to any subtle “threats” from Trump or his cohorts.
It just keeps getting better.
Unhinged = Trump since 2015
All the statements that refute Hutchinson, not a one is under sworn oath. The press seems to run with them anyways.
Maybe someone should have done something about the “ss” hiring 40 of the seditionists bodygaurds.
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What??? Trump lied again? I’m shocked.
This whole Trump fiasco shines as the workings of the devastated 2 year old that threw his piece of apple pie with whipped cream on the floor during an exceptional tantrum, causing parents to have him clean up the mess and having the audacity to cut off his desert portions for a week … a red-faced foot-stomping 2 year old promising to get even, no matter how long it takes or who is the target …
Oh, Wait, Donald WHO !?! /s
I suspect fat Donnie has ever driven himself anywhere,,and likely doesn’t even have a driver’,#s license. I am most wish they had let him.have the wheel. He would have blown right through traffic lights,and stop.signs,and forget obeying speed limits. It would have been hilarious for the SS to have to intervene when a cop.tried to.write him a ticket.
I suspect fat Donnie has ever driven himself anywhere,,and likely doesn’t even have a driver’,#s license. I am most wish they had let him.have the wheel. He would have blown right through traffic lights,and stop.signs,and forget obeying speed limits. It would have been hilarious for the SS to have to intervene when a cop.tried to.write him a ticket.
Biden knew a certain group.of agents were devout Trumpies,,and had them replaced by men and women he had had in his VP detail. I wouldn’t trust most of them today.