At a hearing on the coup attempt that was suddenly called for on Tuesday afternoon, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, testified that the former president wanted to join the rioters as they moved to invade the Kogre 2020 election results. However, Trump was stopped by the Secret Services, leading to a fight inside the presidential vehicle with which he tried to grab the wheel. “Sir, you have to get your hand off the wheel,” Hutchinson recalled an agent telling the president. Earlier in the hearing, Hutchinson described how Trump dismissed warnings that his supporters at the National Mall that day were armed. “She is not here to hurt me. Remove the spells. Let my people in. “They can make their way to the Capitol from here,” Trump was quoted as saying by Hutchinson. The Mags is a reference to magnetometers, metal detectors used to prevent armed supporters from entering the Trump rally. Hutchinson also said that Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, had warned her “things could get really, really bad” on Jan. 6, stressing that the former president’s inner circle was well aware of the possibility of violence before the attack on the Capitol. The bipartisan committee did not expect to hold hearings this week, but changed its plans to “present recent evidence and receive testimony,” he said. Hutchinson opened her deposition by describing her meeting with Rudy Giuliani at the White House on January 2. She said the former mayor of New York and Trump’s lawyer told her to wait until January 6 “we will go to the Capitol.” When asked by Meadows what this might have meant, Trump’s chief of staff replied, “Things can get really, really bad.” “That night was the first moment I remember feeling scared and anxious about what might happen on January 6,” Hutchinson said. “I had a deeper concern about what was going on with the design aspects.” He also told the panel how White House lawyer Pat Cipollone treated Meadows as the uprising unfolded. “Mark, something has to be done otherwise people will die. “The blood will be in your hands,” he said, according to Hutchinson. However, Meadows reportedly refused, saying Trump did not want to do anything to stop the attack. Since launching this month, the commission’s January 6 public hearings have proved more damaging to Trump than expected. They show the lengths in which he was pressured by government officials, his own justice department and Vice President Mike Pence, as well as a violent mob to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory.

Hutchinson had previously testified privately in committee and parts of her testimony were broadcast during a hearing last week. In one of the videos, he named some of the Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives who apologized to Trump for his efforts to overthrow the election. Hutchinson was a former Republican aide in the House of Representatives before moving to the White House. The commission sought not only to reconstruct the events of January 6, 2021, but also to record what led to Trump’s uprising and actions during this period. As the commission sets out its case, calls have grown to the Justice Department to prosecute Trump for trying to stop Biden’s victory. It is unclear, however, whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will take this step.