This young woman, who worked a few steps from the Oval Office, gave disturbing testimony before a parliamentary committee investigating how Donald Trump tried to reverse the course of the 2020 presidential election, until the assault on the Capitol.
The deputy chief of staff also told him that Donald Trump, when he understood that he was not being taken to the Capitol, then tried to grab the wheel of the limousine. He then attempted to punch an aide in the front seat who told him to get his hands off the wheel and that they would not be returning to the Capitol.
“It might get really, really bad on January 6”
Cassidy Hutchinson notably reported a conversation with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack on the US Congress, during which he allegedly said: “It might get really bad on January 6th.”
“That evening, I remember feeling fear and awe for the first time regarding what might happen on January 6” 2021, said this woman who distanced herself from the nebulous Trump to the point of recently changing lawyers.
On this cold winter’s day, under a sky heavy with heavy clouds, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump had gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the election which saw the Republican billionaire lose. After hearing the president invite him to “walk to the Capitol”, a crowd stormed the seat of the US Congress, sending shock waves around the world.
When the violence erupted on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump’s chief of staff “almost didn’t react,” Cassidy Hutchinson told the House Inquiry, comments broadcast live on many channels across the country.
A wealth of new evidence to sift through
For nearly a year, this commission has heard more than 1,000 witnesses, including two children of the former president, and combed through 140,000 documents to shed light on the specific actions and gestures of Donald Trump before, during and following this event which has shaken American democracy.
These nine elected officials – seven Democrats and two Republicans rejected by their party – have been unfolding since mid-June, during public hearings, a story placing Donald Trump and his entourage at the heart of an “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 by his supporters on January 6, 2021.
Investigators also said they have 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 a “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.
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