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During a hearing announced the day before, the nine members of the special commission of the House of Representatives on the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 received this Tuesday, June 29, the testimony of the former assistant to the presidential chief of staff, Cassidy Hutchinson. According to her, former President Donald Trump tried to get to the Capitol by trying to drive a car himself.
With information from our Washington correspondent, Guillaume Naudin.
Cassidy Hutchinson, 25, described to the commission everything that Donald Trump and his inner circle knew about what was going to happen, denouncing that they would have done nothing to prevent it. It is devastating and damning testimony.
According to her, Donald Trump and his inner circle knew that there were armed men in the crowd, and she heard the then president say that those men did not mean to harm him and that the metal detectors had to be removed so that they could approach him and then march on The capitol.
Assault by a secret service agent
Trump would then have tried to get behind the wheel of a car to join them, according to his testimony. “I’m the p… president, take me to the Capitol now,” he allegedly said, reaching for the agent by the throat, according to statements Tony Ornato, the president’s deputy chief of staff, told Cassidy Hutchinson.
“You need to take your hand off the wheel, sir, we’re going back” to the White House, the agent reportedly replied. “Mr. Trump then pointed his free hand at Bobby Engel [el jefe de seguridad del presidente]. And when he told me the story, [Tony] Ornato told me it was aimed at the collarbone area,” Hutchinson continued.
The young woman, who worked a few steps from the Oval Office, also gave disturbing details of what the US Executive knew about the violence that was being prepared for January 6, including a conversation she allegedly had with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack on the US Congress. “It could get really bad on January 6,” she would have said then.
“That night, I remember for the first time feeling fear and fear of what could happen on January 6,” Hutchsinon said, in testimony that could force Mark Meadows to tell his side of the story.
“Your attempt to hide the truth from the American people will fail.”
The president of the January 6 commission, after praising the courage of the 25-year-old woman, addressed those who have not collaborated since the beginning of the investigation. “I want to speak directly to the handful of witnesses who have been exceptions in our investigation, to the few who have openly challenged us, to those whose memory has failed us time and time again on the most important details, and to those who are afraid of Donald Trump. and those who help him,” said Bennie Thomson.
“Thanks to the bravery of this woman and others like her, your attempt to hide the truth from the American people will fail. And to this group of witnesses who have heard this testimony today: If you suddenly remember something you didn’t remember before, or if you there are details that they would like to clarify, or if they find a bit of courage that they had hidden somewhere, our door is still open,” he said.
Former President Donald Trump, who is openly flirting with the idea of running for president again in 2024, vehemently denounced all the revelations. “It’s twisted and false, like all of the commission’s work,” he lashed out in a series of posts on his Truth Social network.
He has already warned that he will bury the commission’s work if he wins control of the House of Representatives in the November midterm elections.
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