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Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., said Thursday that a Secret Service agent who may testify before the committee Jan. 6 about the chronology of events surrounding former President Donald Trump during the insurgency “likes to lie.” .
Two Secret Service agents, Tony Ornato and Robert Engel, are set to testify before Congress that then-President Donald Trump did not jump at the wheel or attack them in an attempt to drive to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot, a source close to to the Secret Service, David Spunt told Fox News this week.
The explosive new allegations were made Tuesday by Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.
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A series of social media posts piled up this week in which Ornato’s colleagues and opponents accuse him of not telling the truth in the past and of being a habitual liar.
“Tony Ornato certainly seems to be denying conversations that he apparently had,” said Olivia Troy, a former White House homeland security adviser under Mike Pence. “First the one with Keith Kellogg in ‘I Can Fix It’ [and] he now denies the story he told Cassidy Hutchinson. Those of us who have worked with Tony know where his loyalties lie. He must testify under oath.”
“Tony Ornato also lied about me,” CNN’s Alyssa Farah Griffin said. “During the 2020 Lafayette Square protests, I told Mark Meadows [and] Ornato, they had to warn the press gathered there before clearing the square. Meadows replied, “We’re not going to do that.”
She added: “Tony later lied [and] said the exchange never happened. He knows he did.”
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The whirlwind of attacks on Ornato’s credibility caught the attention of Kinzinger, who publicly commented that Ornato often lied.
“There seems to be an underlying thread here … Tony Ornato likes to lie,” Kinzinger wrote.
Congressman Adam Kinzinger, Republican of Illinois, listens during a business meeting of the Special Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Congresswoman Liz Cheney declined to comment on the possibility of members of the Secret Service testifying before committee Jan 6 after two agents disputed claims about Trump’s behavior during the riots.
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When pressing whether Members of the Secret Service would speak to the growing narrative inconsistencies in the testimony, Cheney countered.
“The commission has spoken with both Mr. Ornato and Mr. Engel, and we welcome additional testimony, under oath, from both of them and from anyone else in the Secret Service who has information about any of these issues,” Cheney told ABC News.
Timothy Nerosi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
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