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Current Affairs Assault on US Capitol and Related (non-Trump) Investigation
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Been thinking about the “grabs steering wheel and then tries to throttle agent”.
It is something that was reported to her rather than she saw herself so it could well be apocryphal or exaggerated. Pulling a womans hair out (as one of his ex wives said in their divorce trial) is one thing, taking on a highly trained agent is quite another.
However of her testimony it is probably the bit that Trump most liked given loves to project a “strongman” image!
If agents testify that it never happened what is Trumps version of events - that he wanted to go to the Capitol (as he told the crowd) but them the secret service told him no it was too dangerous and he meekly went home and threw his lunch at the wall like a toddler?
Tbh agents could wll testify that it didn’t happen even if it did - lying under oath seems far less of a sacrifice than being prepared to jump in front of a bullet for someone.
It is something that was reported to her rather than she saw herself so it could well be apocryphal or exaggerated. Pulling a womans hair out (as one of his ex wives said in their divorce trial) is one thing, taking on a highly trained agent is quite another.
However of her testimony it is probably the bit that Trump most liked given loves to project a “strongman” image!
If agents testify that it never happened what is Trumps version of events - that he wanted to go to the Capitol (as he told the crowd) but them the secret service told him no it was too dangerous and he meekly went home and threw his lunch at the wall like a toddler?
Tbh agents could wll testify that it didn’t happen even if it did - lying under oath seems far less of a sacrifice than being prepared to jump in front of a bullet for someone.
This is the claim that I am the most skeptical of tbh.
He wouldn't be sitting in the front passenger seat, so that means he would have had to lunge over the drivers seat to get at the steering wheel, and to then grab at someone's throat at the same time...?
Not saying I don't believe her, but how it's described doesn't sound quite right. As you say, she wasn't there first hand, so maybe something has been lost in the detail?
I presume this means we will get Ornato testimony
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I'd say it's entirely possible she heard a heightened account of what happened in the SUV. However, it's not like that part being inaccurate invalidates her testimony. At no point today did she claim to have seen the events firsthand, only described a conversation in which she was told happened in the vehicle once arriving back at the West Wing. As far as I can remember, the rest of her testimony was first hand accounts of what she actually heard/saw.
Like that Tweet earlier from Mick Mulvaney said, a big portion of today's testimony was probably to checkmate Meadows, Cipollone, Ornato, or some of the others who have refused to provide testimony to this point into having no alternative but to do so.
Yeah, if someone's told her an exaggerated or even untrue story, she's not lying by relaying what she's heard.
The ketchup story on the other hand, she says she was there first hand, and let's be honest, something like that is totally on-brand for Trump lol
Speaking of which he’s been pretty quiet - no “ I categorically did not ask for a pardon and exverything she said was a tissue of lies” for instance
hmmm
Because they already have his records? Or is he cooperating?
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