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Robin Abcarian

Robin Abcarian: Is the lunge true? Let Trump sycophants tell us under oath what really happened

Secret Service agents would take a bullet for the president. Would they also lie for him?

On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, the Jan. 6 committee's star witness to date, testified that she was told about an altercation in then-President Donald Trump's SUV after the rally that preceded the violent insurrection at the Capitol.

By now you're probably familiar with the details: According to Hutchinson's testimony, Anthony Ornato, Trump's deputy chief of staff and former lead of his Secret Service detail, told her that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel and then lunged for the neck of agent Bobby Engel, who was riding shotgun.

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