Posted on 08/06/2024 8:01:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump did not attempt to grab the steering wheel of a presidential limousine on Jan. 6, as was suggested by a star witness of the Jan. 6 Committee, according to witnesses interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified to the Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 that she heard from presidential security official Tony Ornato that Trump had lunged for the wheel of “the Beast” after being informed that he was going back to the White House rather than to the Capitol on that day. However, witnesses who were inside the vehicle and interviewed for a DHS OIG report examining the Secret Service’s response to Jan. 6 said that Trump made no such move.
“We also interviewed [redacted] Secret Service agents in the limousine with the President. The limousine driver said that the President was angry when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, whereas the President’s detail lead, who was seated in front of the President, said he did not recall if the President was angry,” reads a footnote in the report. “We asked [redacted] agents whether the President reached for the steering wheel or lunged toward the detail lead when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, and [redacted] witnesses said those actions did not occur.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’)
The DHS OIG report states that office investigators did not interview Hutchinson for the report because her testimony regarding what happened inside “the Beast” was already part of the public record. Additionally, the report notes that the Ornato wrote to the OIG, saying that “I do not recall being made aware of any details about the President’s return trip to the White House and, as such, I do not recall speaking with anyone about it.”
The scene described by the witnesses inside the vehicle stands in contrast to what Hutchinson told the Jan. 6 Commission when she testified in June 2022, which included an anecdote about the head of Trump’s Secret Service protective detail having to restrain the president as he made a move for the steering wheel of “the Beast.”
Ornato “described [Trump] as being irate. The president said something to the effect of, ‘I am the f-ing president. Take me up to the Capitol now,’” Hutchinson testified.
Major news outlets — including Reuters, CBS News and NBC News — ran stories amplifying Hutchinson’s claims about what happened in “the Beast” on Jan. 6 when she testified to Congress about it in June 2022.
It was a ridiculous accusation and story from the git-go.
— Harry Reid
There were lies flying left and right during the JaySix FUBAR.
Agree....Ridiculous to think it was even possible from the back seat....
Somebody needs to sue Hutchinson’s ass.
She belongs in prison for a loooong time.............
Her publisher should demand their money back.............
It’s second hand info to start with....she has no knowledge personally of the supposed grab...since when is such testimony even permitted.
So has the Secret Service. I don’t believe one word they say. Especially when dope is found in the White House and they just dispose of it like dirty underwear.
Somehow, she needs to be held accountable for providing false testimony while under oath.
When it’s a Democrat run shit show..................
My second cousin’s barber said the same thing. Must be something to it.
I dunno, after seeing President Trump take a bullet to the ear, dive behind an armored podium while 7 more shots are fired, seeing his hand covered in blood, but he still had the presence of mind to stand up with Secret Service surrounding him and he raised his fist to shout FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!, I can believe he had the cojones to lunge for the Limo wheel...
“Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified to the Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 that she heard from presidential security official Tony Ornato that Trump had lunged for the wheel of “the Beast”
The very definition of hearsay evidence.
The left keep throwing out one shameful lie after another, and when they get caught in the lie, we’ll, no big deal, it’s right on to the next lie
The left have very little inthe way of morals
She should be arrested, charged, convicted, and sentenced to life without cats.
The false story is the one that, in their heads, based on their TDS, had to have been true. So, therefore, they forced it upon us as a substitute for what actually happened. Which was... nothing.
What is probably much closer to the truth, was that the SS was trying to provoke Trump by refusing his order to take him to the Capitol. Much to their collective disappointment, Trump utterly failed to take the bait
Cassidy Hutchinson got her book deal ... she visited our city in western Colorado, earlier this year, and received a very complimentary interview by our local paper, in addition to an invite from our local university where she got a standing ‘O’.
The book of course was no doubt written by a ghost writer, or at least a good portion of it.
Ha ha ha ha! I remember that video… :-)
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