Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, wanted to join crowd

The Associated Press ^ | June 29, 2022 | By MARY CLARE JALONICK, FARNOUSH AMIRI, ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO

[Oldeconomybuyer]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump rebuffed his own security’s warnings about armed protesters in the Jan. 6 rally crowd and made desperate attempts to join his supporters as they marched to the Capitol, according to dramatic new testimony before the House committee investigating the 2021 insurrection.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a little-known former White House aide, described an angry, defiant president who was trying that day to let armed protesters avoid security screenings at a rally that morning to protest his 2020 election defeat and who later grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to let him go to the Capitol.

And when the events at the Capitol spiraled toward violence, with the crowd chanting to “Hang Mike Pence,” she testified Tuesday that Trump declined to intervene.

Trump “doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong,” Hutchinson recalled hearing from her boss, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Hutchinson’s explosive, moment-by-moment account of what was happening inside and outside the White House offered a vivid description of a Republican president so unwilling to concede his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden that he acted out in rage and refused to stop the siege at the Capitol.

The young ex-aide was matter-of-fact in most of her answers. But she did say that she was “disgusted” at Trump’s tweet about Pence during the siege.

“It was unpatriotic, it was un-American, and you were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie,” Hutchinson said, adding that, “I still struggle to work through the emotions of that.”

Members of the panel praised Hutchinson’s bravery for testifying and said that other witnesses had been intimidated and did not cooperate.

[Organic Panic]

Maybe she is Hunter’s side chick. That’s a good paying job.

[Bon of Babble]

Already debunked.

From the British Press:

Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10963183/Secret-Service-prepared-testify-oath-Trump-did-NOT-grab-steering-wheel.html

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Do the lefties watching these hearings not notice that only one side gets to call witnesses? Is it lost on them that there is no one representing the accused? No opportunity for rebuttal or cross-examination? No opportunity to face one’s accuser?

I would think with all the public trials, all the courtroom reality TV shows, all the great legal drama films and TV shows like Perry Mason, that everyone would know there are supposed to be two sides represented.

But the lefties I know, who have apparently been glued to the TV for these hearings, seem to be totally fine with them being one-sided. Or perhaps they think Cheney being a Republican makes it bipartisan.

Or could it be that they know perfectly well these hearings are not fair, and that the January 6th allegations are bogus, and that the 2020 election was stolen. But they hate Trump and his supporters so much they are fine with us being treated unfairly, and happy to see us hounded and persecuted over nothing.