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Two former White House aides say top Secret Service official defending Trump on Jan. 6 has history of lying
Hard as it may be to fathom, those most loyal to the disgraced ex-president are notorious liars. Take all the time you need.
CAN WE TRUST SECRET SERVICE AGENTS WHO LIE?
EXCERPT:
Two former Trump White House aides are accusing a top Secret Service official and key defender of the then-president's actions during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection of being a political loyalist with a history of lying.
Former aides Olivia Troye and Alyssa Farah Griffin have criticized the Secret Service official, Anthony Ornato, amid reports he is disputing that an angry Donald Trump grabbed the steering wheel of his presidential SUV limousine and lunged at a Secret Service agent in the front seat that day. Those explosive allegations were leveled last week by another ex-Trump aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, before the Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack.
Hutchinson testified that Trump wanted to join thousands of his followers who marched up to the Capitol after a speech he gave near the White House, and that he became "irate" after his Secret Service detail told him he had to be driven back to the White House for security reasons. On the way back, Hutchinson testified, the president physically accosted an agent and tried to turn the limo toward the Capitol, according to what Ornato told her immediately after the incident.
At the time, Ornato was the White House deputy chief of staff in charge of operations. Trump had personally appointed Ornato to that position in December 2019, an apparent first for a Secret Service official, because of his loyalty to the President. A 25-year veteran of the Secret Service, Ornato is now back at the agency as its assistant director in charge of the Office of Training.
Hutchinson's testimony came under scrutiny last week after both Ornato and Robert Engel – the agent who was allegedly accosted by Trump – told the Secret Service the president did angrily demand to be taken to the Capitol but that he never grabbed Engel or the steering wheel.
Hutchinson testified that Engel, who was in charge of Trump's protective security detail, also was in the room at the White House when Ornato recounted the story and never tried to correct his version of events.
Troye, the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism advisor to then-Vice President Mike Pence, told USA TODAY Saturday that Ornato has a history of changing his story when it becomes politically troublesome for Trump.
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'There seems to be a pattern here'
"There seems to be a pattern here of conversations that happen that are inconvenient conversations for Tony and then he comes back and says that they never happened," Troye said. "That really speaks to Tony's character and credibility, and whether he has a history of doing [Trump's] bidding, and then denying it to protect him."
In riveting testimony last week, Hutchinson – a former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows – said Trump wanted to let armed supporters into his rally because he knew 'they're not here to hurt me.' "
She also disclosed for the first time that Trump demanded to be driven to the Capitol, and said it was because he allegedly wanted to give a second speech outside the Capitol or perhaps inside the complex while lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.
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The fight for abortion rights isn't over yet — not by a long shot!
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Texas supreme court blocks order that allowed abortions to resume
The Fundamentalist Christian Republican of Texas has again seized women's rights to make choices about their own bodies.
10-year-old Ohio girl forced to travel out of state for abortion after Roe reversal
This is the future the Republican Party is working tirelessly to build.
A PREGNANT 10 YEAR OLD!
EXCERPT, MUST READ:
On Monday three days after the Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, took a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio.
Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.
Could Bernard help?
Indiana lawmakers are poised to further restrict or ban abortion in mere weeks. The Indiana General Assembly will convene in a special session July 25 when it will discuss restrictions to abortion policy along with inflation relief.
Uvalde schools’ police Chief Pete Arredondo resigns from City Council
The Uvalde school district’s police chief has stepped down from his position in the City Council just weeks after being sworn in following allegations that he erred in his response to the tragic mass shooting.
Google says it will delete users' location history at abortion clinics, other "personal" data
The tech giant says it wants no part in the Republican war on women.
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WHO says monkeypox cases triple in Europe in two weeks
Europe is the center of a global outbreak of the virus with 90% of confirmed monkeypox cases reported there. New infections have tripled since June 15 with 4,500 confirmed cases across 31 European nations.
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Supreme Court asks Maryland officials to stop people picketing at justices’ houses
Evidently the court believes some people still have a right to privacy.
Ohio city braces for release of fatal police shooting footage; protesters gather Saturday
Protesters again gather in Akron, Ohio, a day before the release of video footage showing the fatal police shooting of a Black motorist, 25-year-old Jayland Walker — a shooting that has rocked the city and outraged racial justice advocates.
Dozens of white supremacists march through Boston
Local officials made clear that the "Patriot Front" hate mongers were not welcome.
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