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DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee
CNN ^ | July 14, 2022 | Jamie Gangel and Annie Grayer

Posted on 07/14/2022 7:02:27 PM PDT by lowbridge

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.

A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to comment.

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.

Neither of the agents named in the testimony have commented publicly on Hutchinson's testimony. But soon after it, a Secret Service official who would only speak on background, said Engel would deny parts of the story regarding Trump grabbing at the steering wheel and lunging toward an agent on his detail. The agency has said the agents involved would testify to that effect, though they have not yet gone back to

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anniegrayer; capitol; cnn; cnnnews; fakenews; jamiegangel; jan6; january6; xinn
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1 posted on 07/14/2022 7:02:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

So when are they hearing from the secret service officers that said it was a lie?


2 posted on 07/14/2022 7:04:00 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

This secret service officer “likes to lie.”

See how that works, I learned this from crybaby Kinzinger.😀


3 posted on 07/14/2022 7:06:40 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: lowbridge

A vacation home to anyone who supplies the right lie. What a country.


4 posted on 07/14/2022 7:07:24 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Skywise
So when are they hearing from the secret service officers that said it was a lie?

Not till the pubbies (if they will actually do it) have real hearings.

5 posted on 07/14/2022 7:08:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: lowbridge

Twilight Zone time. The SS deny the charge but they continue trying to sell a lie. I think they’re all vaccine damaged.


6 posted on 07/14/2022 7:09:08 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: lowbridge

OK, so then are they saying Secret Service is allowed to veto a President going where he says to take him? And that they may kidnap him and take him elsewhere?

Which is it? Is it a lie? Or did the Secret Service refuse a direct order from the President to take him to the Capitol?
That would seem to support the deep state coup.


7 posted on 07/14/2022 7:09:42 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: lowbridge

The officer was in the motorcade but not in Trump’s car. Thus he knows nothing.


8 posted on 07/14/2022 7:09:50 PM PDT by plain talk
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There are no contradictions in this story. The argument wasn't denied, it was the part about Trump grabbing the steering wheel and grabbing the neck of the SS agent that the agents said never happened.

I don't see any information about a physical assault.

Yawn.

9 posted on 07/14/2022 7:10:44 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: lowbridge

Had Trump been driven to the Capital he may have very well been able to maintain a peaceful protest, but since he was denied, then how was he supposed to stop it? He does not have the protestors phone numbers.


10 posted on 07/14/2022 7:11:37 PM PDT by inchworm (al )
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Where in the motorcade was this police officer? Doesn’t sound as though he were in the actual vehicle. Isn’t his boss the Democrat DC mayor?


11 posted on 07/14/2022 7:11:59 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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Tout la femme a son prix!


12 posted on 07/14/2022 7:12:58 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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I say prove that he was present and not just assigned to the motorcade. Just like everything than accuse Trump of they manufacture the facts to fit the charges. This is a kangaroo court pure and simple. They will get the results they desire. All of this proves is how corrupt this government is.


13 posted on 07/14/2022 7:16:01 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: lowbridge

You mean to tell me that the Presidential Limo has an open cab to the front seat? Interesting...

KAZAAAAAAM!


14 posted on 07/14/2022 7:16:04 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Germany has made using the letter “Z” illegal. Also “De-Nazification” when referring to Ukraine)
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To: lowbridge

Adam must be getting tired,, took shifty 3 days to write this latest script.

” source” = Adam shift.

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15 posted on 07/14/2022 7:18:35 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: lowbridge

The video of Trump assaulting the secret service guys is pretty damming. Oh!?


16 posted on 07/14/2022 7:24:03 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: lowbridge

There is nothing in the article to substantiate the salacious headline. There is very little chance this officer saw anything, local cops do not get that close to the president.

On a side note, if any prosecutor put a case together the way this committee is investigating Trump, I think they would probably face very severe reprimand.


17 posted on 07/14/2022 7:24:52 PM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: unclebankster
:::::This secret service officer “likes to lie.”:::::

So does Liz Cheney.

18 posted on 07/14/2022 7:28:17 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: lowbridge

So he reached thru a glass window, reached around the driver and grabbed the steering wheel?
Trump has really long arms and who would have guessed...super powers.


19 posted on 07/14/2022 7:32:55 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: lowbridge

So a guy who gets his paychecks from Trump-hating Mayor suddenly appears to share his oh-so-convenient little work of fiction.


20 posted on 07/14/2022 7:35:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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