Secret Service brokers have “testified before the grand jury deciding whether to indict Trump for the role on Jan. 6”
At least 5 Secret Service brokers have reportedly testified before the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The case is believed to be one of two prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith, who this month came down hard on Trump for alleged mishandling of classified documents.
In the second case, a grand jury is considering whether to indict the then-president for conduct like the assault and trying to interfere with the certification of the 2020 election results.
Sources indicated NBC News that 5-6 employees had arrived according to the summons they had obtained.
But it has not been determined how close they were to Trump or what data they might have provided.
At least 5 Secret Service brokers have reportedly testified before the grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s role in the violent attack on the US Capitol.
The case is believed to be one of two prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith, who this month came down hard on Trump for alleged mishandling of classified documents.
However, they may be willing to verify or deny the information provided by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson when she appeared before the committee on Jan. 6.
She instructed the committee, which she had heard secondhand, that Trump needed Secret Service brokers to take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to intercept protesters.
When they refused for safety reasons, he tried to grab the steering wheel of his car and started driving, based on her information. Trump later denied the information.
Investigators may even want to hear about communications between brokers earlier than January 6. Last year, it was discovered that every textual content message between brokers on 5-6-2021. has been out of place since January, apparently as a result of a software upgrade.
Hutchinson, who worked for Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, was the star of the Jan. 6 hearings with her testimony. about Trump’s actions when he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
She testified that Trump had to engage the pro-MAGA crowd at the US Capitol.
That mob stormed the Capitol for hours on January 6 and fought with law enforcement officers, threatening the lives of Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for chief of staff Mark Meadows, was the star of the Jan. 6 hearings with her testimony about Trump’s actions.
Hours earlier, Hutchinson testified that Trump tried to grab the wheel of an SUV and lunged at a security official when Secret Service brokers told him they could take him back to the White House after he gave a speech on the Ellipse. took place, not to Capitol Hill.
She also told how she became aware of Trump’s meals after investigating what then-Attorney General Bill Barr had told The Associated Press that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud.
Hutchinson testified {that} a servant called him into the White House dining room “and then pointed to the front of the room near the fireplace and the television set.”
“Where I first noticed ketchup dripping down the wall. And there’s a broken porcelain plate on the floor,” she said.
“The official had expressed that the president was extremely angry about the attorney general’s interview with the AP and had thrown his lunch against the wall.”
