Former President Donald Trump unleashed a frenzy of posts on Truth Social, his social media app, following the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, before the Jan. 6 Committee.
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The testimony revealed the chaos behind the scenes of the Trump administration in the days leading up to and on Jan. 6. Hutchinson described how senior members of Trump's staff knew there was a potential for violence on Jan. 6, Trump's demands for armed supporters to be allowed to enter his rally on the mall before the march on the Capitol, and how an irate Trump lashed out at aides and Secret Service members who prevented him from going to the Capitol.
In his social media ranting, Trump referred to Hutchinson as a "total phony and a leaker," accusing her of being embittered after not receiving a job offer with Trump's team after his presidency ended. The former president called allegations that he had lunged at a Secret Service agent in an attempt to take the wheel of the presidential vehicle "sick" and "fraudulent," and denied that he had thrown a plate of food in the presidential dining room.
Trump attempted to malign the credibility of the committee and of Hutchingson as a witness, writing that "since there is no cross examination of this so-called witness" it is "a Kangaroo Court!" He reiterated his belief that "the Election was Rigged and Stolen," and declared that the "country is going to hell because of a fraudulent election."