Donald Trump tried to get behind the wheel of a presidential limousine on January 6, 2021 to join his supporters marching to Congress, a former White House aide reported Tuesday (June 28) during a parliamentary hearing.
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"
I'm the fucking president, get me to the Capitol right now
," he reportedly said, according to remarks reported to Cassidy Hutchinson by the president's deputy chief of staff.
This young woman, who worked a few steps from the Oval Office, gave disturbing testimony before a parliamentary committee investigating how Donald Trump tried to reverse the course of the 2020 presidential election, until the assault on the Capitol.
Cassidy Hutchinson notably reported a conversation with Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack on the United States Congress, during which he allegedly said: "
It could get really bad on January 6th.
“
That evening, I remember feeling for the first time fear and awe about what could happen on January 6
” 2021, confided this woman who distanced herself from
the Trump nebula to the point of recently changing lawyers.
"Witch hunt"
On this cold winter day, under a sky laden with heavy clouds, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the election which saw the Republican billionaire lose.
After hearing the president invite him to "
walk to the Capitol
", a crowd stormed the seat of the US Congress, sending shock waves around the world.
When the violence erupted on Capitol Hill, Donald Trump's chief of staff "
almost did not react
," Cassidy Hutchinson told the House Inquiry, comments broadcast live on many channels across the country.
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For nearly a year, this commission has heard more than 1,000 witnesses, including two children of the former president, and combed through 140,000 documents to shed light on the specific actions and gestures of Donald Trump before, during and after this event which has shaken American democracy.
These nine elected officials - seven Democrats and two Republicans rejected by their party - have been unfolding since mid-June, during public hearings, a story placing Donald Trump and his entourage at the heart of an "
attempted coup
".
New evidence to sift through
Supporting videos and testimonies, they meticulously detail the pressure exerted from all sides by the billionaire to stay in power, until the assault on the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021. The investigators also indicated that they had a wealth of new evidence to sift through, which arrived as the hearings were underway, including hours of footage of Donald Trump and his family filmed for a documentary.
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The Republican billionaire, who openly flirts with the idea of running for president in 2024, vehemently denounces the work of the commission, castigating in turn a "
travesty of justice
" and a "
witch hunt
".
His party, which he still controls with an iron fist, has already promised to bury the conclusions of this commission if he were to take control of the House of Representatives during the mid-term legislative elections. in November.