Tony Ornato, the senior Secret Service official who broke with agency precedent to serve as a political adviser during former President Donald Trump's administration, announced his retirement on Monday.
Tony Ornato, the senior Secret Service official who broke with agency precedent to serve as a political adviser during former President Donald Trump's administration and who was at the center of testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson about Trump's actions on Jan. 6, announced his retirement, Monday.
Ornato endured mounting scrutiny from the Jan. 6 House select committee after Hutchinson, who was a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified about her conversations with Ornato, who was a White House deputy chief of staff to Trump when the attack on the U.S. Capitol took place.Government photothat she had met with Ornato and Robert Engel, the Secret Service special agent in charge on Jan. 6, shortly after Trump returned from his address to the White House.
The president then used his free hand to lunge towards Engel, she said, noting that Ornato"motioned towards his clavicles" when describing the incident. Hutchinson added that at the time, Engel did not correct or disagree with any part of what Ornato said. A spokesperson for the agency said Ornato has been"continuously made available" to the committee and confirmed the now private citizen has retained legal representation.
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