House investigators recently obtained evidence revealing that former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service driver wanted to quickly deny testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson alleging a struggle in the presidential limousine during the Capitol riots but the Democrat-led January 6 committee rebuffed him for months via Just The News.
It has been noted that the evidence was confirmed to Just the News both by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House subcommittee that is investigating the Jan. 6 tragedy now for Republicans, and a transcript of the driver’s interview that was conducted months after he first offered to testify.
Loudermilk on Tuesday evening decried the delay by the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee, stating it kept Americans in the dark for months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections that there was firsthand testimony refuting Hutchinson’s sensational hearsay narrative that Trump tried to violently commandeer his Secret Service limousine on Jan. 6, 2021, to take it to the Capitol.
A former Trump White House aide, Hutchinson, gave the account during nationally televised hearings in June 2022, more than five months before the elections. However, the Secret Service agent’s refutation wasn’t solicited until the day before the November Election Day, after millions of early ballots were cast.
The transcript of the driver’s testimony reviewed by Just the News shows his lawyer complained that his client had offered to testify in July, August and September of 2022, but was “rebuffed” by the January 6 committee led by Chairman Rep. Benny Thompson, a Democrat, and Vice Chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, both fierce opponents of Trump.
“We’re talking about the driver of the limousine, and the head of the entire protective detail,” Loudermilk said during a wide-ranging interview with the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. “They were brought in by the select committee to testify, but they weren’t brought in until November.
“It was in June when they paraded Hutchinson before the world, and they let the world hear the stories. And what’s interesting is in the very beginning of the driver’s testimony, his attorney starts off by chastising the select committee,” Loudermilk also said. “And he said we offered to come in July, August, September, and now it’s November. So we found out for the first time that the driver had been offering to come in and testify under oath as far back as just a few weeks after Cassidy made these claims, but the select committee would not bring them in.”
Loudermilk’s description is approved by the transcript, which also shows the Secret Service driver testified Trump never attempted to reach for or grab the wheel of the SUV as Hutchinson, who wasn’t in the vehicle, alleged in her testimony.
Cheney did not explain why the committee allowed Hutchinson to testify in summer 2022, before the documents were turned over, but then delayed the driver’s refutation until much later.