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On Monday, the House committee Oversight Subcommittee of the House Administration Committee sent a letter to key Jan. 6 Cassidy Hutchinson ordering her to preserve and produce all records in her possession related to the events of that day and her interactions with the Democratic Jan. 6 Select Committee.This new letter, from Chairman Barry Loudermilk, follows reporting from Just the News this weekend that Hutchinson—the former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows—waived her attorney-client privilege with her first lawyer and internal Secret Service memorandums undercut her narratives of key events on the day of the Capitol riot.“I write...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to interview former Secret Service agent Tony Ornato on Tuesday. Lawmakers on the panel sought Ornato’s testimony to corroborate information about former President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. When he meets with the committee Tuesday, Ornato, who was Trump’s deputy chief of staff on Jan. 6, will be speaking with the House panel for the third time. Ornato was at the center of explosive testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified during the House committee’s series of public hearings on Jan....

FOX News reported: Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., claimed Thursday that a Secret Service agent who may testify before the Jan. 6 committee about the timeline of events that unfolded around former President Donald Trump during the riot “likes to lie.” Two Secret Service agents, Tony Ornato and Robert Engel, are prepared to testify before Congress that then-President Donald Trump did not lunge at a steering wheel or assault them in an attempt to go to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, a source close to the Secret Service told Fox News’ David Spunt this week. The explosive new allegations...

Lead Secret Service agent and the presidential limousine/SUV driver are reportedly prepared to testify under oath that Hutchinson's claims are false. The “star witness” of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 Select Committee testified Tuesday that former President Trump angrily tried to take control of his presidential limo during the January 6 protests, leading to a cascade of mockery online and by Trump himself. In hearsay testimony provided to the committee, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, claimed she was told by Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Tony Ornato that Trump became angry when informed he...

I don’t know if this is a disaster for Cassidy Hutchinson’s credibility. But, assuming these reports are accurate, it’s a disaster for the January 6 committee.Maybe a major one.🚨 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.— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) June 28, 2022A USSS source confirms to me that Engel and driver are willing to give the testimony @PeterAlexander details below.The source has not responded to whether...

The lead Secret Service agent in charge of President Trump’s detail on January 6 will reportedly testify that the former president did not try to commandeer his suburban during the riots, thereby contradicting testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday. News of the testimony broke on Twitter from Peter Alexander of NBC News, the furthest thing from a Trump ally, who said that a source close to the Secret Service said that agent Bobby Engel will testify. [CUT] ABC News confirmed as well:[CUT] Should the report prove accurate and Bobby Engel’s testimony hold up, it will be...