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Robby Soave

January 6 Hearings Reveal More Trump Misconduct, but Was It Incitement?

As a mob of angry supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, former President Donald Trump demanded that Secret Service agents take him to the riot. He even tried to grab the wheel of the car in which he was riding. That's according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who worked for Mark Meadows, Trump's final chief of staff. Hutchinson made a surprise appearance at the January 6 committee hearings on Tuesday and described the former's president's allegedly agitated and irresponsible behavior before, during, and after the attack on the Capitol.

Hutchinson told the committee that Trump threw his lunch at a wall when he learned that former Attorney General William Barr had publicly declined to endorse any stolen election claims. "There was ketchup dripping down the wall," she said.

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