The allegation that a Secret Service agent restrained former President Donald Trump as he tried to take control of the wheel of his presidential SUV on Jan. 6 is farcical and absurd, a former agent told dcexaminer.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday that she was told that Robert Engel, the head of Trump's security detail, had grabbed the president's arm as he reached forward from the back seat and tried to take control of the steering wheel to change the vehicle's course to the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
Hutchinson said she was not in the vehicle when the supposed altercation took place. She said Tony Ornato, then the White House's deputy chief of staff for operations who witnessed the altercation in person, told her the story while Engel was in the room. Engel, she added, did not dispute the story. Dimitrelos said Trump physically could not have reached from the back seat of the SUV and taken control of its steering wheel.
The former Secret Service agent added that the Jan. 6 committee made no apparent effort to verify Hutchinson's account of the incident independently before running the allegation on national television. "If it exists, everybody has it. Secret Service has it, White House Communications Agency and every division in the Secret Service," Dimitrelos said."Time of departure, logistics, whether its impromptu, spontaneous event or not — everybody would have that information."
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