Trump lashed out at the Secret Service agent after he was told he could not go to the Capitol on Jan. 6: Assistant
Despite warnings from his top lawyers, former President Donald Trump insisted on going to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and “lunged.”[ed]“To a Secret Service agent who told him he couldn’t, said a former White House aide.
Former Trump White House Chief of Staff Assistant Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Cassidy Hutchinson made the comments at a committee hearing Tuesday, Jan. 6. He said White House attorney Pat Cipollone repeatedly warned that going to the White House could put many people in the White House in legal danger.
“On January 3, Mr. Cipollone had approached me knowing that Mark [Meadows] had raised the possibility of going to the Capitol on January 6, “Hutchinson said.” Mr. Cipollone had a brief private conversation where he told me, “we have to make sure this doesn’t happen, this would legally be a terrible idea for us.”
“I understand that Mr Cipollone thought Mr Meadows was pushing this along with the President,” he added.
“Cipollone said something to the effect of, ‘Please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol … we’ll be charged with every crime imaginable,'” Hutchinson said. Among the crimes, he said, were obstruction of justice and “defrauding the electoral count.”
However, even after the White House told House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California Republicans and others that Trump would not go to the Capitol, the former president said he would do so in a speech. at the Ellipse on the morning of January 6th. .
Trump abandoned his protest speech waiting to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said.
According to Hutchinson, former deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato told him, “I had the impression from Mr. Meadows that the move of the record to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen.”
But when Secret Service agents broke the news to him, “the president had a very strong and very angry response to that. Tony described it as anger. The president said something to the effect, ‘I’m the shitty president. , take me now to the Capitol “.
Hutchinson said Ornato also told him that Trump tried to “get behind the wheel” of the “Beast” presidential limousine and then threw himself at the Secret Service agent who was in charge at the time.
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