FORMER AIDE SAYS TRUMP WAS AWARE THAT PROTESTERS HAD WEAPONS ON JANUARY 6
Hearings from the January 6 riot continue to move forward. Donald Trump’s involvement becomes more evident as the trial proceeds.
Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide in Trump’s White House, added evidence regarding the protest carried out by the protestor on the morning of January 6. She stated that Trump knew that the protesters had weapons, and he practically permitted them to storm the Capitol and told the officials to “let my people in.”
“I don’t f*cking care that they have weapons,” Hutchinson says Trump said on January 6. “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
The attack killed seven people, including four people from the crowd and five police officers who served at the Capitol.
Hutchinson also told the court that days before the attack, she had a brief conversation with Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Meadows, and other officials in the Trump administration. She said they left her “scared and nervous for what could happen.” She recounted that Meadows said, “things might get real real bad.”
Most of Hutchinson’s testimony came second-hand. She had more evidence to share with the court as she shared snippets of her conversation with an official. It was revealed that Trump insisted on traveling to the Capitol after his rally. When the motorcade turned back to the White House, it was reported that Trump got hold of the steering wheel and wrestled with a Secret Service officer.
“I’m the [expletive] president,” Trump said, according to Hutchinson. “Take me up to the Capitol now.”
She also gathered the courage to speak of what Meadows said about Trump when the protesters publicly asked to hang Vice-President Mike Pence. “He thinks Mike deserves it,” Hutchinson said she overheard her boss say. “He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.”
As a reaction to Hutchinson’s testimony, Trump negated the allegations on his social media and regarded Hutchinson as a “phoney” and a “leaker” who was bitter because he did not give her a job after leaving the White House. He denied many of the episodes described by the former aide. He said he asked the rioters to protest towards the Capitol “peacefully.”
