Secret Service Agents May Testify After Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan 6 Testimony

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Donald Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, dropped a bombshell testimony on Tuesday, and now it is said that Secret Service agents might testify.

A source told Fox News that two Secret Service agents are willing to testify that then-President Donald Trump did not lunge at a steering wheel or assault them in order to go to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

Hutchinson had testified that White House counsel Pat Cipollone had repeatedly warned staff in the days before the Jan. 6 rally. He had allegedly said that they were "going to get charged with every crime imaginable" if Trump headed to the Capitol. After Trump's speech at the Ellipse, he got into the presidential SUV thinking that he was going to the U.S. Capitol. Then he had a "very strong, very angry response" when Bobby Engel, the head of his Secret Service detail, said that they were going to the White House instead.

Relaying what Hutchinson was told later that day by another White House aide, Tony Ornato, she testified that the former President said something to the effect of, "I'm the f***ing President," and he ordered his men to take him to the Capitol. She testified that Trump reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel, but Engel grabbed his arm and said, "Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. We're going back to the West Wing. We're not going to the Capitol."

The SUV driver, an unnamed Secret Service agent, and Engel are reportedly prepared to testify before the Jan. 6 panel that Trump did not lunge at the steering wheel. The committee that's investigating the riot, and the Secret Service are in talks about whether one or both men will appear on camera.

Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement to CBS News that the United States Secret Service has been cooperating with the Jan. 6 Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and they "will continue to do so." The statement further read that they will respond "on the record to the committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today's testimony."

As for Trump, he said that he "hardly knows" Hutchinson, reported Indy100. He took to Truth Social to express his feelings about her. He wrote that he hardly knows who this person is. "Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and a 'leaker')." He said that when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after "my having served a full term in office, I personally turned down her request." Trump added said that he could "understand" that he didn't want her to go or accompany the team and that she "is bad news!"