The revelation of a former Trump aide against him in the fact-finding committee
In an unexpected confession, a former White House aide told the Jan. 6 Incident Investigation Committee on Tuesday that Donald Trump had deliberately ordered his armed supporters to march on the Congress building, for the last time, according to IRNA, according to the Guardian. Try to bring back the results of the 2020 US presidential election.
According to the Guardian, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief of staff, who attended a Capital Hill court hearing, gave examples of the former president’s violent nature, which was uncontrollable after losing the election. The audience described.
Hutchinson also revealed new details that the White House – and the former US president – was aware that the Jan. 6 protests could escalate into violence, and Trump called on his supporters to keep him in power “to the last breath.”
Hutchinson, who worked as a Conservative Republican in the room known as the Oval Office with Trump, testified at the sixth and most explicit panel hearing to date: “I felt like I was watching a horror movie; “Where you can not stop it.”
Hutchinson said he was at the White House on the morning of Jan. 6 for a briefing with Kidney Director Meadows, where White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato informed them that members of the crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. Knives, guns and all kinds of firearms go to Congress. Asked if Trump was aware of the incident, Meadows confirmed that he was aware of everything.
He added that when they entered the Oval Office, Trump was outraged that the crowd was not enough and called on the Secret Service to reduce security precautions to prevent insurgents who did not want to pass through metal detectors. And he says he heard Trump say, “They’re not here to hurt me.”
He also recalled that Trump angrily asked Ornato to take him to Congress instead of the White House. “I’m the real president, take me to the Congress building right now,” Hutchinson said.
When the officer said he was not allowed to do so, Trump turned to the steering wheel of the car at the scene to drive it, and when he failed, grabbed the officer by the throat and tried to strangle him.
Witnesses that day also say that Trump was so outraged by the ban on going to Congress that he threw his lunch against the wall. This is not the first time such violent behavior has been reported by the former US president.
A few weeks earlier, after the Associated Press interview with Attorney General William Barr, in which he said the president’s allegations of election fraud were untrue, Trump angrily threw out his lunch.
“Ketchup sauce was dripping from the wall and there was a broken porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson described the scene.
The committee abruptly scheduled a new hearing for Monday because it had previously said it would not hold another hearing until next month. “It is important that the American people hear this information immediately,” Congressman Benny Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 fact-finding committee, said at the beginning of the meeting.
This is the sixth public hearing the committee has held after a year of investigating the notorious January 6 attack on Congress. Two more meetings are expected next month.