DEVELOPING: The Secret Service and the driver of President Trump’s limo are set to refute testimony that they were attacked by the former president, NBC News and Fox News are reporting.
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Former junior aide Cassidy Hutchison testified that after Trump’s speech at the Ellipse, he got into the presidential limousine under the impression that he was going to the Capitol, then had a “very strong, very angry response” when the head of his Secret Service detail, Bobby Engel, said that they were going to the White House.
“The president said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the f’ing president. Take me up to the Capitol now,” Hutchinson testified, relaying what she was told later that day by another White House aide, Tony Ornato.
“The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm and 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.'”
Engel and the limousine driver are prepared to testify before the Jan. 6 committee that the president didn’t lunge at the steering wheel, NBC News first reported.
“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,” tweeted NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander on Tuesday.
ABC News reports that a source “close to the Secret Service tells @PierreTABC to expect the Secret Service to push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel.”
CNN reports, “A Secret Service official familiar with the matter told CNN that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that the former president grabbed the steering wheel or an agent on his detail.”
President Trump also refuted the claims.
“Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order to steer it to the Capitol Building is sick and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself – Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was.”
The Jan. 6 committee and the Secret Service are in discussions about whether one or both men will appear on camera, Fox News reports.
Someone is clearly lying — and whoever it is should spend a very long time in jail.