Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony sparked a controversy with the Secret Service, which allegedly rejects claims that former President Donald Trump tried to pull the steering wheel from a demanding man.
The agency reported that it is available to provide the necessary information to the Select Committee of the House of Representatives investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 550.
It also revealed that the congressmen did not previously inform the Secret Service about Hutchinson’s testimony, to confirm or detail the facts related to the former president.
“ or we were asked to reappear before the Committee in response to yesterday’s new information and we plan to formally respond on the record,” said Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s communications chief.
According to a Politico report, the agency is willing to make any agent on the investigation available to the committee.
Another element revealed by Hutchinson was that former President Trump was furious when he saw an interview that former prosecutor William Barr gave to The Associated Press, where he stated that the Department of Justice had not found elements of widespread fraud, as the former president claimed.
The former president, Hutchinson said, threw his lunch at the wall, where she saw ketchup drip and even offered to clean it up, but the moment of fury was narrated to her by a agent in charge of the former president.
The journalist Peter Alexander, of NBC News, affirmed that a person close Ana told Secret Service agent Bobby Engel that he was willing to testify under oath before the Special Committee, but said that Trump did not try to pull the wheel of the limousine or attack the officer.
Hutchinson’s attorney, Jody Hunt, responded directly to Alexander on Twitter, indicating that his client had revealed this information that he obtained secondhand and that he was telling the truth under oath.
In its communications, the Secret Service has not denied the furious reaction of former President Trump when He demanded that they take him to the Capitol, in the midst of the protest of his MAGA followers, but the agents would have rejected the request, because “it was very dangerous.”