Trump Wanted to Join the Mob at the Capitol, and All Right-Wing Media Wants to Talk About is a Steering Wheel
When Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to Donald Trump’s chief of staff, testified before the Jan. 6 Select Committee, she provided a detailed look at what the lead-up to January 6, and the day itself, were like from the inside. It was not a pretty, or reassuring, picture. Hutchinson painted a convincing picture of Trump as someone who knew that some of his supporters were armed, but did not care, who was indifferent to or even happy with the threats the mob that invaded the Capitol made against Vice President Mike Pence, and who, most strikingly, had planned to accompany the mob to the Capitol and was furious when his Secret Service detail refused to allow him to go. This was a picture of a president who was not going to accept defeat and was willing to use whatever means to necessary to overturn the results of the election.
If you look at right-wing media, though, all anyone wants to talk about is whether the details of a conversation Hutchinson said she had on Jan. 6 with then-deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato were true.
Hutchinson told the committee that Ornato had told her that Trump was so angry at not being allowed to join the mob that, while sitting in the presidential Suburban, he lunged at a Secret Service agent and at the…
