According to a former collaborator of the White House auditioned by a parliamentary commission, Donald Trump tried to take the wheel of a presidential limousine to join his supporters who walked towards the Congress.
Le Monde
Donald Trump tried to take the wheel of a presidential limousine on January 6, 2021 to join his supporters who walked towards the Congress, a former collaborator of the White House reported on Tuesday, June 28 during a parliamentary hearing.
“I am the fucking president, bring me to the Capitol immediately,” he said, according to remarks reported to this collaborator, Cassidy Hutchinson, by the deputy chief of staff to the president. She was the main assistant of Mark Meadows, Donald Trump chief of staff during the last weeks of his mandate.
This young woman, who has distanced himself from the nebula Trump to the point of recently changing lawyers, spent long hours with investigators from February to May, confident that she saw Mark Meadows burn papers in his Bureau after a meeting with an elected republican in the weeks preceding the attack of the Capitol of January 2021.
The hearing on Tuesday, announced at the last minute, was to focus on “new evidence recently obtained”, according to what the elected officials who make up this commission – seven democrats and two Republicans repudiated by Their party.