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45. Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/secret-service-lunging-incident/index.html

Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year

By Noah Gray and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 1:24 PM EDT, Sat July 2, 2022

CNN — Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.

The sources tell CNN that stories circulated about the incident – including details that are similar to how former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described it to the House select committee investigating January 6 – in the months immediately afterward the US Capitol attack and before she testified this week.

While the details from those who heard the accounts differ, the Secret Service sources say they were told an angry confrontation did occur. And their accounts align with significant parts of Hutchinson’s testimony, which has been attacked as hearsay by Trump and his allies who also have tried to discredit her overall testimony.

Like Hutchinson, one source, a longtime Secret Service employee, told CNN that the agents relaying the story described Trump as “demanding” and that the former President said something similar to: “I’m the f**king President of the United States, you can’t tell me what to do.” The source said he originally heard that kind of language was used shortly after the incident.

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Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year OKIsItJustMe Mar 23 #45

Nope. I don't care what the media says. hamsterjill Mar 23 #47

I trust Cassidy Hutchinson OKIsItJustMe Mar 23 #52

That's your prerogative. hamsterjill Mar 23 #55

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