The then President of the United States Donald Trump received information that meeting participants at his speech on January 6, 2021 were armed.
The information comes from a former employee of the White House, at an extra summoned interrogation.
The Congress Committee on the storming of the Capitol in January last year meets in a hastily summoned interrogation. The reason is the committee has received new information, in the form of testimonies from Cassidy Hutchinson who worked in the White House under Trump.
She said both Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows were aware that violence could break out in connection with Trump’s speech in Washington DC.
White House staffer Tony Ornato is also said to have warned that Trump’s supporters were probably armed, Hutchinson said.
Trump is also said to have ordered his staff to remove weapons detectors from the area where Trump was to speak on the fateful day in January, when Congress later stormed.
– I do not care about hell if they have weapons, Trump is said to have said.
– They do not come here to hurt me. Remove the cursed machines. Let my people come in. They can march to the Capitol after that, Trump should have continued, according to witness Hutchinson.
Congress and committee hearings were supposed to have had summer vacations, but Hutchinson’s testimony about the congressional storm was considered so important that the hearings resumed.
The televised interrogations are getting a lot of attention in the United States, but are being questioned by Republicans and rejected by Trump.