The claim was leveled by a former aide to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, who attested that the then-president "Somehow managed to grab the wheel of The Beast to try to go to the Capitol when Secret Service agents told him they wouldn't be going there, and that he then lunged at the agent who told him that." See: Explosive Emails Help to Further Cast Doubt on Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony The story was always ludicrous, but now unearthed testimony by an unnamed Secret Service driver has further undermined the tale-because it would seem that it simply never happened.
The driver said, Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel or physically accosted the agents, contradicting one of the most sensational and hotly disputed elements of testimony given to the House Jan. 6 committee by a White House aide.
In her stunning appearance before the panel in the summer of 2022, Hutchinson described Trump's actions as they had been relayed by Tony Ornato, a former Secret Service agent who served as Trump's deputy chief of staff at the time.
"The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, 'Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we're going back to the West Wing, we're not going to the Capitol.' Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel," Hutchinson testified she had been told.
"This firsthand testimony directly contradicts Cassidy Hutchinson's story and the former J6 select committee's narrative," said Representative Barry Loudermilk, the Georgia Republican who has been leading the House G.O.P. effort to investigate the work of the Jan. 6 committee for bias.
"Although the select committee had this critical information, they still promoted Ms. Hutchinson's thirdhand version of events in their final report." The discredited Committee was a joke from the start-a one-sided, thoroughly skewed version of what actually happened that day.
Liz Cheney continues to make sanctimonious appearances on MSNBC and the like, decrying the incredible dangers of Donald Trump, but one thing is clear-she and the rest of the thankfully disbanded committee cannot be trusted to tell the truth.
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