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Tony Ornato, the Secret Service supervisor assigned to former President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, retired from the U.S. Secret Service on Monday.
Ornato is in good condition after 25 years of service, USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told Fox News.
Cassidy Hutchinson, former Chief of Staff to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified before the committee on Jan. said they had repeatedly requested that he be taken to the Capitol.
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She also testified that Ornato said the former president rushed into another agent, trying to grab the steering wheel of the president’s car he was in.
Ornert and Bobby Engel, a top agent for Trump’s Secret Service details who were in the car, testified behind closed doors to the committee on Jan. 6 for the past year, saying they never brought up the steering wheel part. There has never been, a source close to Ornato told Fox News.
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Ornato saw Hutchinson’s testimony and was shocked when he told her that Trump had lunged at the steering wheel, sources said.
His retirement comes after Secret Service director James Murray announces retirement joined Snap last month as the company’s Chief Security Officer.