Donald Trump reportedly tried to get behind the wheel of a presidential limo on January 6, 2021 to join his supporters marching to Congress, a former White House aide reported Tuesday, June 28, during a parliamentary hearing.

“I’m the fucking president, get me to the Capitol right now,” he reportedly said, according to comments reported to that aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, by the president’s deputy chief of staff. She was the main assistant to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s chief of staff during the last weeks of his mandate.

Before the House Committee investigating how Donald Trump tried to turn the tide of the 2020 presidential election, Ms Hutchinson notably reported on a conversation with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, four days before the attack Congress, where he reportedly said, “It could get really, really bad on January 6th. »

“That night, I remember feeling fear and awe for the first time about what might happen on January 6, 2021,” said the woman, who distanced herself from the nebulous Trump, to the point of recently changing lawyers.

Cassidy Hutchinson spent long hours with investigators from February to May, telling them, among other things, that he saw Mark Meadows burning papers in his office after a meeting with a Republican elected official in the weeks before the Capitol storming.

On this winter day, thousands of supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Washington to denounce the result of the presidential election won by Joe Biden. 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 was “almost unresponsive,” Ms. Hutchinson told the House Inquiry.

Trump denounces a “witch hunt”

Tuesday’s hearing, announced at the last minute, was to focus on “recently obtained new evidence,” according to what the elected officials who make up that commission — seven Democrats and two Republicans repudiated by their party — said. Since mid-June, they have been unfolding a narrative placing Donald Trump and his entourage at the heart of an “attempted coup”.

Supporting videos and testimonials, they meticulously detail the pressure exerted from all sides by the billionaire to stay in power, until the assault on the Capitol. Investigators also announced 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.

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.