Former President Donald Trump revealed different facets of his personality before the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as well as days after, when continued his allegation of “electoral fraud.”
That led him to try to allow armed supporters to enter the rally or turn the wheel of the official car that was driven by a Secret Service agent, even in the days after the assault to the Capitol to throw his lunch against the wall in the White House.
This is revealed by the testimony before Congress by Cassidy Hutchinson, assistant to the former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows.
This is one of the most intense testimonies about what was happening in the White House around the close circle of former President Trump, such as the fact that he was furious with his Secret Service personnel because they prevented him from going to the Capitol, considering it “dangerous”.
Hutchinson acknowledged before congressmen that he heard this fact “second hand”. He indicated that Trump was so angry with his Secret Service staff for preventing him from going to Capitol Hill on January 6 that he tried to turn the wheel.
Meadows’s former adviser, who has refused to testify , spoke of another Trump backlash.
It happened when former Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press that the Justice Department found no evidence of voter fraud, as the former president and his closest allies claimed.
Hutchinson said his boss was called to the White House dining room, where The former president was there.
“After Mark returned, I left the office and went down to the dining room and noticed that the door was open and the assistant was inside the dining room changing the table cloth of the dining room,” he said. “He gestured for her to come in and then pointed to the front of the room near the fireplace mantel and the TV where I noticed, for the first time, that there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a smashed china plate on the wall. floor”.
Hutchinson pointed out that the former president was “extremely angry” with former prosecutor Barr.
“ he had thrown his lunch against the wall, so he had to clean it up,” he said.
The former Meadows collaborator also pointed out that former President Trump had asked to remove the metal detectors, despite acknowledging that his followers could be armed.