Donald Trump knew some of his supporters were armed when he called on them to march on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and tried to get behind the wheel of a presidential limo to join them, a former House aide reported Tuesday. Blanche, Cassidy Hutchinson, at a parliamentary hearing.
According to this young woman, Donald Trump tried to get behind the wheel of a presidential limousine from a policeman from the Secret Service, the agency responsible for protecting the American presidency, in order to mingle with his supporters who were marching towards Congress in order to to try to block the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
“I’m the fucking president, get me to the Capitol right now,” he reportedly said, trying to grab the policeman by the collar, according to remarks reported to Cassidy Hutchinson by the president’s deputy chief of staff. “Sir, you have to take your hand off the wheel, we’re going” to the White House, the policeman would have replied.
“It could get really, really serious”
This young woman, who worked a few steps from the Oval Office, gave disturbing testimony before a parliamentary committee investigating how Donald Trump tried to reverse the course of the 2020 presidential election, until the assault on the Capitol.
Hutchinson notably reported a conversation with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack on the US Congress, during which he allegedly said: “It could get really bad on January 6th. “That evening, I remember feeling for the first time fear and awe about what could happen on January 6” 2021, confided this woman who distanced herself from the Trump nebula to the point of recently changing lawyers.
” Witch hunt “
The parliamentary committee revealed on Tuesday that several people within this human tide were armed, information transmitted at the time to Donald Trump. “I don’t give a fuck if they’re armed, they’re not here to hurt me,” the president reportedly replied minutes before inviting them to “walk to the Capitol,” said Hutchinson, who distanced himself from the Trump nebula to the point of recently changing lawyers, before the parliamentary commission of inquiry.
On this cold winter day, under a sky laden with heavy clouds, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the election which saw the Republican billionaire lose. After hearing the president invite him to “walk to the Capitol”, a crowd stormed the seat of the US Congress, sending shock waves around the world.
no reaction
When the violence erupted on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s chief of staff “almost didn’t react,” Hutchinson told the House Inquiry, remarks broadcast live on numerous channels across the country.
For nearly a year, this commission has heard more than 1,000 witnesses, including two children of the former president, and combed through 140,000 documents to shed light on the specific actions and gestures of Donald Trump before, during and after this event which has shaken American democracy.
A “mine of new evidence”
These nine elected officials – seven Democrats and two Republicans rejected by their party – have been unfolding since mid-June, during public hearings, a story placing Donald Trump and his entourage at the heart of an “attempted coup d’etat”. Supporting videos and testimonials, they meticulously detail the pressure exerted from all sides by the billionaire to stay in power, until the assault on the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021.
Investigators also said they have a wealth of new evidence to sift through, which came as the hearings were underway, including hours of footage of Donald Trump and his family filmed for a documentary.
The Republican billionaire, who openly flirts with the idea of running for president in 2024, vehemently denounces the work of the commission, castigating in turn a “travesty of justice” and a “witch hunt”. His party, which he still controls with an iron fist, has already promised to bury the conclusions of this commission if he were to take control of the House of Representatives during the mid-term legislative elections. in November.