Posted on 07/01/2022 1:19:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn't get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.
The sources tell CNN that stories circulated about the incident -- including details that are similar to how former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described it to the House select committee investigating January 6 -- in the months immediately afterward the US Capitol attack and before she testified this week.
While the details from those who heard the accounts differ, the Secret Service sources say they were told an angry confrontation did occur. And their accounts align with significant parts of Hutchinson's testimony, which has been attacked as hearsay by Trump and his allies who also have tried to discredit her overall testimony.
Like Hutchinson, one source, a longtime Secret Service employee, told CNN that the agents relaying the story described Trump as "demanding" and that the former President said something similar to: "I'm the f**king President of the United States, you can't tell me what to do."
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"He had sort of lunged forward -- it was unclear from the conversations I had that he actually made physical contact, but he might have. I don't know," the source said. "Nobody said Trump assaulted him; they said he tried to lunge over the seat -- for what reason, nobody had any idea."
The employee said he'd heard about the incident multiple times as far back as February 2021 from other agents, including some who were part of the presidential protective detail during that time period but none of whom were involved in the incident.
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They’ll accuse him of wanting to lead the attack.
Isn’t there a big thick piece of glass between them..
Hair salon gossip has more cred than this fluff.
Name him
Hilarious. Their stupid hearsay witness show bombed so now they are trying to fluff up that nut butter with circular reporting.
PROVE IT. No innuendo, no hearsay, no gossip PROVE IT
CNN sandbagging and going into CYA mode after the star witness was exposed.
Albuquerque. Snorkel.
See, I can do it, too.
CNN Reports : Two people heard the same gossip.
Even if true, wanting to go to the Capitol is not a crime and proves absolutely nothing. Wild goose chase fishing expedition.
Almost everyone has a cell phone..yet they have never filmed Trump doing or saying these horrible things they claim he did?
My sources tell me that CNN ratings, and Liz Cheney’s poll numbers are in the dumpster.
This means CNN just made it up and lied again.
CNN suffers biggest ratings dip in SEVEN YEARS: Viewers plummet 13% in June in largest freefall since 2015 despite new CEO Chris Licht vowing to turn the network away from ‘extremes’
The network, promised by Licht to ‘go a different way’ during a time ‘where extremes are dominating cable news’ appear to still be in the tank
Despite the hearings, which drew tens of millions of viewers across multiple networks, CNN actually had fewer viewers in June than it did in May
CNN drew an average of just 654,000 viewers in primetime in June and 487,000 for the entire newsday, down one and three percent respectively
During the committee hearings week of June 13-19, the network averaged just 480,000 viewers, the network’s worst ratings week since November 2015
Overall, June 2022 was the lowest-rated month for 24-hour viewership on CNN since July 2015
By contrast, MSNBC - which had the highest ratings for the hearings on cable - averaged 1.28million viewers in primetime, up 26 percent from May
Fox News also had a better second quarter than they did in 2021
So this has been going around and none of you low life’s reported it? Yeah right...
Here’s and idea.. how about you get the names in Maxwell’s black book? Maybe you already have them and have been sitting on them???? Just like you did the EPSTEIN STORY IN THE FIRST PLACE???????
Get out of here, I don’t believe for one single second that this story was out there in the ether and none of you whore mongers knew or reported it.... Absolute BS.
More whisper campaign propaganda - this is all BS.
Yeah, it seems like the best English kings were a few of the queens.
It’s my understanding the laminated glass is about 5 inches thick.
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