Posted on 06/29/2022 11:54:09 AM PDT by Signalman
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared that Tuesday has been "a very, very bad day" for former President Donald Trump following the "explosive" House select Jan. 6 committee hearing.
Mulvaney said he does not believe the star witness lied and highlighted five key takeaways on Twitter.
"1) Trump knew the protesters had guns 2) He assaulted his own security team 3) There may be a line from Proud Boys to the WH 4) Top aides asked for pardons 5) The commission thinks they have evidence of witness tampering," he tweeted. "That is a very, very bad day for Trump."
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Mulvaney's successor as chief of staff, Mark Meadows, delivered testimony Tuesday recounting Trump's behavior in the lead-up to and day of the Capitol riot.
"My guess is that before this is over, we will be hearing testimony from Ornato, Engle, and Meadows. This is explosive stuff. If Cassidy is making this up, they will need to say that. If she isn't they will have to corroborate. I know her. I don't think she is lying," he tweeted.
He was referring to top White House aide Tony Ornato and Bobby Engel, head of Trump’s Secret Service detail, who told Hutchinson about an alleged fit by Trump after he was told he could not travel to the Capitol on Jan. 6 after his speech at the Ellipse near the White House. The president attempted to grab the wheel of the vehicle he was in and lunged for Engel's throat, Hutchinson testified, citing what she had heard from Ornato.
The most striking takeaway from the hearing came from Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) when she revealed graphics detailing alleged pressure from Trump allies on witnesses before the committee, Mulvaney underscored. She did not divulge who had been pressured or who did the pressuring, instead showing transcripts of the alleged remarks.
"The Press is going to focus on some sensational revelations from today: guns, grabbing a secret service agent, etc. But the real bomb that got dropped was the implied charge of witness tampering. If there is hard evidence, that is a serious problem for the former President," he said.
"Cheney's closing is stunning: they think they have evidence of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. There is an old maxim: it's never the crime, it's always the coverup. Things went very badly for the former President today. My guess is that it will get worse from here," Mulvaney said.
“ I don’t know whether to spend my time laughing aloud at these clowns”
By “these clowns,” do you mean people hired by Trump?
They are still working on it, but they will get back to you before 2024 ...
“ Never understood why Trump picked him for Chief of Staff”
We can all agree that Trump is terrible at hiring good people
Nobody says that about Desantis
Didn’t Trump fire him?
“ Why did Trump have sooooooo many bad hires?”
It’s a weakness that disqualifies him from being nominated again
Desantis in 2024!
“ Didn’t Trump fire him?”
Trump fired a lot of the people he hired. I can’t remember a politician hiring so many people who he later called “losers”
Desantis 2024!
DeSantis appointees have NOT been DC SWAMP CREATURES, we will see what happens WHEN DeSantis appointees move to DC and get SWALLOWED by the SWAMP!! You seem to forget how many Tea Party members we sent to DC were SWALLOWED by the swamp in less than a year they were RINOS!! It is far different running a state than running the corruption in DC you should know that by now GEEZE!!!
“ These people are mental”
Nobody says that about the people Ron Desantis appoints
Desantis 2024!
That is what I thought, jokes on them
What did does fired make? Is Bannon in good or bad graces? Is Gen Flynn is good or bad graces?
Trump wasted so much of his time tweeting on Meghan , Harry, Scarborough’s ratings , and other juvenile topics. Maybe if he’d put some time and effort into vetting people for the key jobs in his administration, he wouldn’t have stuck himself with so many “losers” ( in his own word for them)
You wouldn’t want the ceo of a Fortune 500 company that you had stock in, frittering away his days on childish tweeting. Why it’s ok for a president to waste his hours like that, I don’t know. I know this, Desantis doesn’t do it - he’s too busy getting stuff done.
Desantis 2024!
And Mick Mulvaney just outed himself as a Traitor and Establishment Clown!
Right, but I was thinking he is something else that wasn’t as nice as the headline. President Trump will have a long list of swamp dwellers to throw into the ash heap of history or better yet PRISON!!!!
Are they a traitor if the underlying information they are supporting is factual? Or is everyone supposed to go all G Gordon Liddy?
Are they a traitor if the underlying information they are supporting is factual? Or is everyone supposed to go all G Gordon Liddy?
Exactly.
Haven’t read any further comments. How many are there talking about all of Pres Trump’s bad picks for this and that?
The man is a complete outsider and is picking from a groups that he assumed(incorrectly, sadly), that actually cares about the country and the people. And except for a very sect few, did nothing but undermine the only President in the last 28 years that cared.
It’s no wonder he asked Kushner to do so much. He couldn’t trust anyone.
While I think it would have been spectacular to do, he couldn’t hold a press conference to address from the Oval Office, telling the country just how despicable almost all of them are.
Wouldn’t be too good to hear….” My fellow Americans, I’m doing my best but damn near every cabinet Secretary, etc is proving to be a deep ayate stooge and they’re stabbing all of you in the back.”
I thought she sounded like a robot who had been coached to say certain things. But apparently she is the star witness.
Oh but multiple other who were there say she is lying Mick.
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