House Republicans release report seeking to undermine Jan. 6 Committee and star witness
Source: NBC News
March 11, 2024, 1:45 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating the special Jan. 6 committee will release a sweeping report Monday that Republicans say demonstrates key witness Cassidy Hutchinson’s dramatic account of former President Donald Trump's actions that day was not corroborated by four other White House employees.
“None of the White House Employees corroborated Hutchinson’s sensational story about President Trump lunging for the steering wheel of the Beast. However, some witnesses did describe the President’s mood after the speech at the Ellipse,” states the new report by the House Administration Committee’s oversight subcommittee led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., a section of which was obtained by NBC News in advance of its release.
Hutchinson testified under oath, privately and publicly before the Jan. 6 panel, that she had heard Trump had lunged at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV and got into a physical altercation with his lead Secret Service agent after the president was told he could not go to the Capitol to join his supporters after speaking at a rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6.
While the new GOP report says one White House employee described Trump's mood after the speech as "irate," Republicans argue that "it is highly improbable that the other White House Employees would have heard about the President’s mood in the SUV following his speech at the Ellipse but not heard the sensational story that Hutchinson claims [Tony] Ornato told her after returning to the White House on January 6."
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republicans-report-jan-6-committee-cassidy-hutchinson-trump-rcna142762
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