A top White House aide testified that Donald Trump wanted to meet his supporters at the Capitol after his speech.
According to Cassidy Hutchinson, a special assistant to the president, Trump didn't care that people in the crowd had weapons.
Trump did not care if they had effing weapons. They are here to help me.
Hutchinson was the star witness at the hearing of the House Select Committee looking into the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
When Trump was prevented from meeting his supporters at the Capitol, he became enraged, tried to wrest away the steering wheel of the presidential limo and grabbed for the throat of a Secret Service agent.
After her testimony ended, the U.S. Secret Service appeared to push back on the allegations.
The Secret Service didn't debunk Hutchinson's story. The United States Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced today.
She told the committee that Trump threw a lunch plate at the wall in the West Wing dining room and splattered it with condiments.
Trump said, "Mike deserves it" as his supporters chanted to hang him.
Hutchinson was dismissed as a "total phony" and a "leaker" by Trump.
Hutchinson was an adviser to White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows and worked steps away from the Oval Office.
The chair of the Arizona Republican Party was subpoenaed.
She had first-hand observations on Trump's behavior before and after the Capitol riot.
Hutchinson said that Giuliani bragged about going to the Capitol on January 6.
Hutchinson told her that things might get real, real bad on January 6.
According to Hutchinson, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone warned that the president should not go to the Capitol.
A Trump supporter in the crowd had a spear tip in his hand.
Jake Angeli, the Phoenix man who became the face of the riot as he joined bare-chested, showed off elaborate tattoos and wore a fur hat with horns.
Angeli carried a spear with a flag zip-tied to it as he became a reliable presence at protests in the Phoenix area. Angeli carried it into the lobby of the Arizona House of Representatives in December 2020 in protest of the election results.
Lawmakers, staff members and Fox News Network hosts urged Trump to release a statement asking the rioters to go home, but he refused. The crowd dispersed when he did.
Angeli told people to go home after watching the video from inside the Capitol.
Angeli was one of the Arizonans who took part in the riot at the U.S Capitol.
One man from the northern Arizona town of Cottonwood, Nathan Entrekin, wrote in a letter to a federal judge ahead of his sentencing that he attended to protest the November 3, 2020 election results.
Entrekin was dressed as a gladiator in order to invoke Captain Moroni from the Book of Mormon.
The committee held its fifth hearing last week. The panel was going to take a break until next month.
People from Arizona have been featured in previous hearings.
The speaker of the Arizona House testified that he was pressured by Trump and his attorneys to give the state a victory for Trump. Biden was the only democrat to carry Arizona since 1948.
The Arizona House speaker testified at the Capitol riot hearing.
The saga of how seven states sent up competing slates of electors to the U.S. Senate was the subject of a hearing on June 21.
The crowd gathered outside the Capitol was angered by the fact that Pence refused to go with them.
The testimony of a former aide to MarkMeadows, who was Trump's chief of staff, was shown in last Thursday's hearing. He didn't deny that he did.
After Joe Biden's inauguration, he turned down Hutchinson's request to travel with other former staff members, despite Trump's claim that he didn't know Hutchinson.
He said he had only heard bad things about her.
In his social media posts, Trump didn't address any of Hutchinson's claims.
He has dismissed people in the past who were critical of him. He has said they are unimportant or that he can't remember them.
Trump said that she wanted to go with them if she thought they were bad. She was angry that I didn't want her to join the team. She is not good news.
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