Now what is the point of this post? You obviously know it will take time to let the justice system work. So you are just trolling. As you have been this whole time.
When I heard Trump wanted to go to the Capital I gave him a little more credit than I normally give him. I would have loved to have seen the result of that. The lunging at the steering wheel? I really can not see that tubby old man being capable of that. Mind you in extreme situations I guess it could be possible. Tossing his food? Why not? I found this article interesting on whether the president has freedom of his movements.
Presidential protection or abduction? Secret Service wrong for all the right reasons on Jan. 6
The sixth hearing of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 riot finally fulfilled the media’s billing as “
must-see TV.” Indeed, at points, the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to then-White House chief of staff
Mark Meadows, sounded like a cable-series episode of “When Presidents Attack.” She alleged that an enraged
Donald Trump threw his lunch against a White House wall, an allegation Trump denies.
But the hearing’s grabber came when Hutchinson testified that she was told that Trump became physical with his Secret Service security team, trying to force them to drive him to Capitol Hill as the riot unfolded.
Hutchinson’s testimony offers an explanation for a long-standing mystery: Why did Trump repeatedly say he would go to Capitol Hill with his supporters but then decided to return to the White House? Hutchinson’s surprising answer:
He didn’t decide.
According to her second-hand account from people in the presidential limo, known as “The Beast,” Trump intended to do exactly what he promised and ordered the Secret Service to take him to the Capitol. But Tony Ornato, White House deputy chief of staff for operations, and Bobby Engel, who headed Trump’s security detail, reportedly refused.
Hutchinson said Ornato asked her, “Did you f-ing hear what happened in The Beast?'” She then repeated Ornato’s account:
“So once the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought that they were going up to the Capitol, and when Bobby had relayed to him, ‘We’re not, you don’t have the assets to do it, it’s not secure, we’re going back to the West Wing,’ the president had a very strong, very angry response to that … [Trump] said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now.’ To which Bobby responded, ‘Sir, we have to go back to the West Wing.’ The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm and said ‘Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol.’ … [Trump] then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned toward his clavicles.”
Stunning though the allegation was,
several media reports cite “a source close to the Secret Service” as denying the claim of a physical altercation and offering to have Engel or another official testify to that under oath.
Even if true, that still leaves the main allegation — that the Secret Service effectively made the President of the United States a captive and refused his repeated, direct orders on where to take him.....
What was the authority of the security team to refuse a direct order from a sitting president?
thehill.com
