Secret Service agents may have told grand jury about Trump’s desperation to join Jan. 6 riots: reporter
A new report Monday revealed that several Secret Service agents have appeared before a grand jury to answer questions about what happened on Jan. 6.
Now onlookers are wondering if they gave any details to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's now infamous tale about Trump's actions on the day.
Hutchinson told the House Select Committee, which sat a year ago to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, that Trump had told Secret Service agents to take him to the rioters at a Capitol, and then grabbed the steering wheel of the car when they declined.
Hutchinson also said he grabbed an agent around the neck.
"We don't know what Jack Smith and his team are asking those agents, but any former or current agent who's being questioned about Donald Trump's activities and White House activities in the days leading up to Jan. 6th is bound to get an earful about things that we've all reported on for more than a year," Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.
"And that includes, as you may well remember, Nicolle, that Donald Trump also planned to march on the Capitol."
There was never supposed to be a march at all. The Parks Department denied the requests to march to the Capitol, presumably because of what was happening that day at the building. Still, behind the scenes, Trump supporters spread the word that the march was happening anyway.
"What else is it that Jack Smith is going to learn from agents?" asked Leonnig. "They could learn about Donald Trump's state of mind heading into Jan. 6th. Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, which you aired just now about Donald Trump being completely comfortable with his supporters having weapons, pistol, rifles, knives, flak jackets, bulletproof vests, bear spray, all of these things were being communicated to him in a risk assessment on the day of. Yet, he said I don't care. Take the magnetometers down. They can come and march with me to the Capitol."
She said, "pointing the armament and pointing the weapon at the Capitol really tells you a lot about Donald Trump's state of mind and agents who are on the right shoulder of the president can give you an eye into that that no one else can."
Harry Litman, a former federal prosecutor, explained it isn't even necessary to find that Trump grabbed the wheel or grabbed his agent. Those agents could testify to his screaming fury, which gives enough information to determine a motive.
Leonnig explained that a text message is no longer needed from agents to White House staff saying Trump grabbed the agents. They can finally call them to the stand and ask about it directly.
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