Donald Trump reportedly tried to get behind the wheel of a presidential limousine on January 6, 2021 to join his supporters marching to Congress, a former White House aide reported Tuesday, June 28 during a parliamentary hearing.
“I’m the fucking president, take me to the Capitol right now”he would have said, according to comments reported to this collaborator, Cassidy Hutchinson, by the deputy chief of staff of the president. “Sir, you have to take your hand off the wheel, we’re going home” at the White House, the policeman would have replied.
Mme Hutchinson was the main assistant to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff during the last weeks of his mandate. Before the parliamentary committee investigating the way in which Donald Trump tried to reverse the course of the presidential election of 2020, she delivered disturbing details on what the American executive knew of the violence which was preparing upstream of the “January 6”. In particular, she reported a conversation with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack on the United States Congress, during which he allegedly said: “It could get really, really bad on January 6. »
“That night, I remember feeling fear and dread for the first time about what might happen on January 6” 2021, confided this woman who has distanced herself from the Trump nebula, to the point of recently changing lawyers.
“I don’t give a fuck that they are armed”
Cassidy Hutchinson spent long hours with investigators from February to May, telling them, among other things, that he saw Mark Meadows burning papers in his office after a meeting with a Republican elected official in the weeks preceding the assault on Capitol Hill.
On this winter day, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the presidential election won by Joe Biden. After hearing the President invite him to “Walk to the Capitol”, a crowd stormed the headquarters of the US Congress, sending shock waves around the world. When violence erupted on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s chief of staff “almost did not react”said M.me Hutchinson before the parliamentary commission of inquiry.
The latter 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 damn if they’re armed, they’re not here to hurt me”would have answered the president a few minutes before inviting them to “Walk to the Capitol”according to the account Mme Hutchison.
Trump denounces a “witch hunt”
Tuesday’s hearing, announced at the last minute, was to focus on “new evidence recently obtained”, according to what the elected officials who make up this commission had said – seven Democrats and two Republicans repudiated by their party. Since mid-June, they have been unfolding a story placing Donald Trump and his entourage at the heart of a “attempted coup”.
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. Investigators also said they had 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 “parody of justice” and an ” 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.