The Secret Service is doubling down on its denial of an alleged altercation between former President Trump and his security detail on Jan. 6 of last year, providing a rare defense of Trump's actions that day amid mounting evidence that he tried to orchestrate a coup from the White House.

The extraordinary anecdote of a clash in the presidential SUV — recounted last week in public meide testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson — has received outsized attention in the days since then.

The narrative has sparked a quick denial from the agents involved; prompted Trump loyalists to attack Hutchinson’s broader credibility; and frustrated Trump critics who want to focus on the bigger picture, not least of all Trump's desire to join hundreds of supporters in marching on the Capitol to contest his election defeat.

Through back-channels, the Secret Service has confirmed Trump's eagerness to join the protestors at the Capitol, a number of whom would go on to storm the building in a violent effort to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden's victory.

“There's a lot of what Ms. Hutchinson said that is true. Certainly [Trump] wanted to go to the Capitol, 海滨度假村 that much we know. He said that publicly, he reiterated that inside the car,” a source close to the Secret Service told The Hill on Tuesday. 

But the agency has also pushed back on Hutchinson's account that Trump had lunged for the SUV's steering wheel, and then towards the neck of Secret Service agent Robert Engel, after being told he was going back to the Oval Office — and not to the Capitol — following his defiant speech on the Ellipse. 

Those acts of aggression, Hutchinson said, were relayed to her at the White House shortly after the rally by Tony Ornato, who upset Secret Service tradition by temporarily serving as Trump’s deputy chief of staff for operations. Engel was in the room during that conversation, she added, and did not dispute the details. 

Both Ornato and Engel, who remain active Secret Service agents, have said they are willing to testify under oath to dispute 风能发电原理 战争片Hutchinson’s narrative, even as they have refused to speak publicly about it. The unnamed driver, the agency has signaled, is also denying her account. 

“Ornato is a red herring,” the source said, noting that he was in his office at the time and not at the rally.

“There are three people in that vehicle: 深圳最低工资调整Bobby Engel, President Trump and the limo driver,” the source said, and both agents are “saying that did not happen.”

In denying Hutchinson's second-hand account, the traditionally taciturn Secret Service has stepped into a firestorm of political controversy, lending ammunition to Trump's allies, who are playing up the dispute in an effort to discredit all of Hutchinson’s 姓陈的好名字 testimony. 

“The sham Committee’s star witness is already discredited less than 24 hours after her testimony,” said Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.). “It was all hearsay.” 

Yet in the context of the broader charges accumulating against Trump — including the explosive allegation that he sent an armed crowd to the 汽车养护品牌排行 Capitol to block the peaceful transfer of power — the Secret Service dispute is largely a diversion. 

“It's really important to remember for people to focus on what is legally significant, and not get distracted by the drama of stories about things like throwing plates of ketchup or whether the former president actually tried to grab the steering wheel and assault the head of the 饮用水处理 Secret Service crew,” said Catherine Ross, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University Law School.

“对于他是否应该被起诉和是否可能被定罪的问题，这些都无关紧要。”

哈金森并不是唯一一个受到调查的人。在她作证后的几天里，一些共和党人也开始质疑奥纳托的可信度。

彭斯的一名官员指出，奥隐秘的角落百科 纳托驳斥了《华盛顿邮报》关于彭斯国家安全顾问凯斯·凯洛格(Keith Kellogg) 1月6日对奥纳托采取行动将副总统驱逐出国会的谈话的报道。

“我们这些和托尼共事过的人知道他忠于谁，”彭斯的前顾问、特朗普的知名批评者奥利维亚·特罗耶(Olivia Troye)在分享这篇文章时写道。“他应该宣誓作证。”

前白宫战略沟通主任阿丽莎·法拉(Alyssa Farah)也抱怨说，奥纳托否认了一段对话，她在对话中说，她敦促他在2020年使用化学刺激物清理白宫附近的一个公园之前警告媒体。

委员会两名共和党成员之一、伊利诺伊州众议员亚当·金辛格(Adam Kinzinger)指着法拉的推特说:“这里似乎有一条主要的线索……托尼·奥纳托喜欢撒谎。”

特别委员会的成员们也在淡化围绕SUV事件的电热水器质量排名 分歧，竞相为哈钦森辩护，并指出她在上周的听证会上也发表了大量的第一手证词。

“委员会不会袖手旁观，眼睁睁地看着她的角色被匿名消息来源和声称享有行政特权的人暗杀，”委员会副主席、众议员利兹·切尼(怀俄明州共和党)周末告诉ABC新闻的乔纳森·卡尔。因此，我们非常期待在一系列问题上得到更多的宣誓证词。”

深圳攻略调查小组的另一名成员、加州民主党众议员洛夫格伦(Zoe Lofgren)也传达了类似的信息。

“她站出来说真话对她没有任何好处。而真相会让特朗普的世界失去一切，”洛伦周日在NBC的《会见媒体》(Meet the Press)节目上说。

洛夫格伦说，奥纳托已经在宣誓的情况下与委员会进行了闭门谈话。“如果他想回来澄清他之前的信息，他也要宣誓。”

“我认为，关注他在转述那个故事时是否对哈钦森撒谎是错误的，”她很快补充说。“事实是总统知道他的人都有武器。”

对哈钦森的攻击——其中一些来自自己也参与了调查的议员——激发了特朗普的支持者，因为这位前总统抱怨称，共和党人抵制调查的决定让特朗普在特别委员会中没有捍卫者。

班克斯曾被众议院少数党领袖凯文·麦卡锡(加州共和党)任命为调查小组的高级成员。但众议院议长南希·佩洛西(加利福尼亚州民主党人)拒绝让他和众议员吉姆·乔丹(俄亥俄州共和党人)入座，因为班克斯发誓要利用这个职位调查拜登对国会袭击事件的反应。拜登当时军衔等级划分还不是总统。

吴卓羲个人资料作为对佩洛西的回应，麦卡锡把他的共和党候选人从委员会中撤出，让民主党的9名候选人——他们都是特朗普的激烈批评者——畅通无阻地主持会议。

“这是俄罗斯骗局，”班克斯说。“民主党的媒体盟友只是在重复他们无耻的、毫无证据的指控。”

哈钦森的律师团队表示，她坚持自己的说法，并强调她是在宣誓后提供证词的——四次是闭门作证，上周又一次是公开作证。

“哈钦森女士在宣誓后作证，并叙述了她被告知的情况，”她的律师乔迪·亨特(Jody Hunt)上周在Twitter上写道。“知情人士也应宣誓作证。”

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