Posted on 06/29/2022 5:40:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former President Donald Trump’s lead Secret Service agent is reportedly ready to testify that testimony given by a former White House staffer on Wednesday to the January 6 House select committee is false.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed that Trump on the day of the January 6 rally tried to get Secret Service to take him to the U.S. Capitol building, and that he became enraged when they would not do it because the area was not secure.
Hutchinson claimed that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the armored presidential limousine and that Bobby Engel, who was the lead security detail, had to tell him, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.” Hutchinson claimed that Trump then lunged at and assaulted the agent.
NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted, “A source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.”
The Secret Service responded to Hutchinson’s claims in a statement, “U.S. Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony.”
Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey noted on Twitter that the January 6 select committee “has Secret Service testimony that would seemingly corroborate or dispute what Cassidy Hutchinson said today, but it wasn’t played.”
Trump responded to the allegations by writing on social media: “I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request down.”
“Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible?” Trump continued. “I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn’t want her to go, or be a member of the team. She is bad news!”
Trump’s claim that Hutchinson wanted to work for him after he left the White House is somewhat corroborated by a January 14, 2021, tweet from Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs, who wrote: “Aides had assumed Trump would fly to Mar-a-Lago when he leaves White House but now it’s definite: he’s heading to Florida, and several aides will continue to work for him, including Nick Luna, Molly Michael, Cassidy Hutchinson.”
Trump later added that he did not “want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech. Who would ever want that? Not me!”
“Besides, there were no guns found or brought into the Capitol Building,” Trump continued. “So where were all of these guns?”
Trump then said that her claims that he tried to grab the steering wheel were “fake” and that the allegation was “sick and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself.”
“Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing,” he added. “Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was?”
Assuming that Trump was NOT sitting in the front seat...it would be nearly impossible for him to even attempt to reach over the driver’s seat to grab the wheel...especially considering that he is a really big guy.
Hutchinson just another D.C. suck up will lie for a job tramp empties trash cans.
She looks like she’s pushing 40.
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.... you are off by a couple decades. I would have guessed in the 55 to 60 range.
liz and cassidy hugged it out after the hearing
almost like they were in cahoots on the lies
Lying is not exclusive to divorcing females—if men do it, it tends to be about things like denying infidelity or hiding assets. But there's a certain type of female lying recently illustrated by Amber Heard, in which an incident with a grain of truth is inflated, exaggerated and catastrophized into a ludicrous, utter lie. An accidental jostle or yelling at a disobedient child becomes an "assault" worthy of jail time, gun confiscation and a protective order. I'm disgusted at what "equal pay for equal work" practical feminism of the 60s has morphed into.
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For [people] will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible [feminized people] loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. —2 Timothy 3: 1-7[gender edits mine]
It is not uncommon, and has been around a long, long time, especially in divorce cases. Hell hath no fury........................
For other Biblical examples, see Jezebel, her daughter Athaliah and Delilah.....................(NONE OF WHOM WERE JEWISH)................
This is such an obvious lie. He rides in the back or middle row of seats, which have plenty of leg room, with another agent in the front passenger seat beside the driver, and often one or more other agents either beside him or in the other back rows. What do they think, he unbucked, crouched up, leaned over and tried to steer from behind the driver's seat?
I've never seen him pictured riding in the front seat--it's not SS protocol! POTUS is always surrounded by agents. The front seat is a vulnerable position, and one from which agents would want to be able to protect the driver and fire at anything incoming.
She is begging Democrats to crossover and vote for her, guess she gave up on getting republican votes.
Doesn't matter they meat the seriousness of the charge requirement.
Kinda like John “Wayne” Cornyn, Lisa Muskowski, Susan Collins and Linda Graham?
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