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06-28-2022, 10:41 PM
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Despite warnings from his top lawyers, former President Donald Trump insisted on going to the Capitol on Jan. 6 -- and he "lung[ed]" at a Secret Service agent who told him he couldn't, a former White House aide said.
Former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, made the comments in a Jan. 6 Committee hearing Tuesday. She said that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone warned repeatedly that Trump going to the Capitol could put many people at the White House in legal jeopardy.
"On Jan. 3 Mr. Cipollone had approached me knowing that Mark [Meadows] had raised the prospect of going to the Capitol on Jan. 6," Hutchinson said. "Mr. Cipollone had a brief private conversation where he said to me 'we need to make sure this doesn't happen this would be legally a terrible idea for us.'"
"It's my understanding that Mr. Cipollone thought that Mr. Meadows was indeed pushing this along with the president," she added.
"Cipollone said something to the effect of, 'please make sure we don't go up to the Capitol... we're going to get charged with every crime imaginable,'" Hutchinson said. Among the crimes, she said, were obstruction of justice and "defrauding the electoral count.
Yet even after the White House had relayed to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and others that Trump would not go to the Capitol, the former president declared that he would in a speech on the Ellipse the morning of Jan. 6.
Trump left his rally speech expecting that he would be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said.
According to Hutchinson, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Tony Ornato told her, "he was under the impression from Mr. Meadows that the off the record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen."
But when Secret Service agents broke the news to him, "the president had a very strong, very angry response to that. Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of, 'I'm the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now."
Hutchinson said Ornato also told her Trump tried to "grab at the steering wheel" then lunged at the Secret Service agent in charge at the time.
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January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, Capitol attack
January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, Capitol attack
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Tuesday provided some of the most detailed testimony yet of the House January 6 Committee's several hearings.
Hutchinson, who had significant access in the White House, detailed former President Donald Trump's demands to be taken to the Capitol on Jan. 6, his treatment of Secret Service agents, and his reaction to threats to his vice president.
Trump denied Hutchinson's allegations in a series of 12 posts on his Truth Social networking app. The former president said she is "A Total Phony!!!" and called the January 6 Committee "a Kangaroo Court."
Read about five of the top moments from Hutchinson's hearing Tuesday here: January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, attack on Capitol
Despite warnings from his top lawyers, former President Donald Trump insisted on going to the Capitol on Jan. 6 -- and he "lung[ed]" at a Secret Service agent who told him he couldn't, a former White House aide said.
Former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, made the comments in a Jan. 6 Committee hearing Tuesday. She said that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone warned repeatedly that Trump going to the Capitol could put many people at the White House in legal jeopardy.
"On Jan. 3 Mr. Cipollone had approached me knowing that Mark [Meadows] had raised the prospect of going to the Capitol on Jan. 6," Hutchinson said. "Mr. Cipollone had a brief private conversation where he said to me 'we need to make sure this doesn't happen this would be legally a terrible idea for us.'"
"It's my understanding that Mr. Cipollone thought that Mr. Meadows was indeed pushing this along with the president," she added.
"Cipollone said something to the effect of, 'please make sure we don't go up to the Capitol... we're going to get charged with every crime imaginable,'" Hutchinson said. Among the crimes, she said, were obstruction of justice and "defrauding the electoral count.
Yet even after the White House had relayed to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and others that Trump would not go to the Capitol, the former president declared that he would in a speech on the Ellipse the morning of Jan. 6.
Trump left his rally speech expecting that he would be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said.
According to Hutchinson, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Tony Ornato told her, "he was under the impression from Mr. Meadows that the off the record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen."
But when Secret Service agents broke the news to him, "the president had a very strong, very angry response to that. Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of, 'I'm the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now."
Hutchinson said Ornato also told her Trump tried to "grab at the steering wheel" then lunged at the Secret Service agent in charge at the time.
Read more by Fox News' Tyler Olson: Trump lunged at Secret Service agent after being told he couldn't go to Capitol on January 6: aide
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January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, Capitol attack
January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, Capitol attack
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Tuesday provided some of the most detailed testimony yet of the House January 6 Committee's several hearings.
Hutchinson, who had significant access in the White House, detailed former President Donald Trump's demands to be taken to the Capitol on Jan. 6, his treatment of Secret Service agents, and his reaction to threats to his vice president.
Trump denied Hutchinson's allegations in a series of 12 posts on his Truth Social networking app. The former president said she is "A Total Phony!!!" and called the January 6 Committee "a Kangaroo Court."
Read about five of the top moments from Hutchinson's hearing Tuesday here: January 6 hearing: Top 5 moments of explosive Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on Trump, attack on Capitol