
Secret Service says January 6 Committee didn't reach out before Hutchinson testimony on Trump lunging at agent
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The U.S. Secret Service said the January 6 Committee did not check an allegation against former President Trump with witnessing agents before a hearing.
A former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told the January 6 Committee Tuesday that President Trump insisted he be taken to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, said Tuesday that former President Donald Trump knew many of his supporters on the National Mall were armed on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
This comes after Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday to the committee that Tony Ornato, the former deputy chief of staff for operations, told her about the incident involving Trump. According to Hutchinson, Ornato told her Trump repeatedly demanded that the Secret Service take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ornato further told Hutchinson, according to her, that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent and tried to grab the wheel of a presidential SUV when agents would not allow that.