Former White House assistant Cassidy Hutchinson portrayed Trump as reckless and unhinged as he provoked the most serious assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812.

“The rioters have gotten into the Capitol, Mark; we need to go down and see the president now,” she quoted Cipollone as saying.

What finally broke her loyalty to Trump, she said, was a tweet the president sent as the rioters threatened to hang Vice President Mike Pence.

6, demanded to go to Capitol, aide tells hearing.

White House assistant Alexander Butterfield testified that the Oval Office had a taping system, an explosive opening to find out exactly what President Richard Nixon had said before Democratic offices were broken into and afterward, when officials tried to cover it up. .

She was there. She said Trump was told about the risk of violence beforehand and about the reality of violence as it unfolded.

She said he was determined to go to the Capitol to join the protesters even after the headof his security detail told him it was too dangerous

Take me up to the Capitol now,’” she said, relaying what she was told immediately after the incident by deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato. Trump allegedly tried to grab the steering wheel but was stopped by Secret Service agent Robert Engel

Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel," she said, motioning that the president tried to choke the agent who was tasked with the job of protecting his life.