The former aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows alleges in a new book that he burned papers in his office fireplace and remarked on trying to keep Trump 'out of jail.'
last year, also had claiming that Trump had tried to grab the steering wheel of the SUV he was in on Jan. 6, 2021, and lunged toward his security detail when he was told they couldn’t bring him to the Capitol after his rally.He said he wanted to go down to the Capitol peacefully but that the Secret Service warned him that it would be better if they didn't.
"I didn’t have a dispute with them. You know, you had that one person said I grabbed the man around the neck. Actually, I wish I was so strong to be able to do that," Trump said, adding that Hutchinson's story was"the craziest account I've ever heard." "You mean that I was in 'The Beast,' and she said I was in 'The Beast,' and the Secret Service didn’t want — so I took a guy who was like a black belt in karate and grabbed his neck and tried to choke him — how ridiculous," he added.
"The Secret Service said, 'Sir, it would be better if you didn’t.' I said, 'I’d love to do it.' They said, 'It would be better.' And so we went back to the White House," Trump said. In response to the book, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung referred NBC News to a series of posts he made on X, the social media website formerly known as Twitter, in which he called Hutchinson"a liar and her lies have been refuted." In one of the posts, Cheung pointed to
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