Former president donald trump on Wednesday acknowledged that he told the Secret Service he wanted to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, portraying a different tone to an event that became a controversial detail of a former White House aide’s testimony before the House committee who investigated the attack.
In comments at a campaign rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Wednesday afternoon, the former president criticized the report to the Cassidy HutchinsonThe former main advisor to former White House chief of staff Marcos Prados who served as a key witness during the closely watched committee hearings held in 2022.
“Remember the person who said I attacked a Secret Service agent in front of his car?” Trump said, referring to Hutchinson’s testimony. “It’s not my problem, I’m a lover, not a fighter.”
Hutchinson testified that team told her about Trump trying take the steering wheel inside an armored SUV and advancing toward his security detail when he learned he would not be taken to the Capitol, where a crowd of his supporters was gathering.
“This is crazy,” Trump said Wednesday. “I sat in the back and you know what I said? I said: ‘I would like to go there because I see a lot of people walking’. They said, ‘Sir, you better not do it.’ I said, ‘Well, I would like […] Whatever you guys think.
“That was the tone of the conversation,” Trump added.
Shortly after Hutchinson’s 2022 testimony, former President belittled her in posts on Truth Social, saying he “barely” knew her, “other than having heard very negative things about her (one that was completely false and ‘leaky’).”
Hutchinson’s account attracted scrutiny after sources said two witnesses could testify under oath that the incident had not occurred.
A Republican-led House panel investigating the January 6 committee released a report in March, accusing him of minimizing the testimony of other witnesses who did not corroborate Hutchinson’s account.
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