Angry, violent, reckless: testimony paints shocking portrait of Trump

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) He lunged at a Secret Service agent’s throat. He threw dishes during temper tantrums. And he wanted metal detectors taken away so his fans could march with guns and knives.

An astonishing portrait of Donald Trump as an unhinged and personally violent president emerged at Tuesday’s hearing of the congressional committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol.

Even for a country – and a political press corps – long used to the norm-shattering of the Trump years, the picture painted of Trump at the surprise hearing was a shock to the system. The January 6 panel had promised new revelations and it did not disappoint.

“Never before in American history have we ever seen credible testimony this shocking against a president of the United States before Congress,” Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian, told the MSNBC network. “This is a day that is going to loom very large in American history.”

The star witness at the hastily arranged hearing was Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to the then White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. She described how Trump wanted to go to the US Capitol with his supporters on January 6 after giving a fiery speech that urged them to fight for him. .............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/28/trump-jan-6-secret-service-hutchinson

[Evolve Dammit]

1. I wasn't shocked.It just confirmed (again) what a vile human he is.

[Phoenix61]

4. +1,000 nt

[Cha]

2. Not really "shocking".. for me & those

on DU, whom have seen a lot more than the M$$$$M allows.

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Hugin]

5. The amount of filtering done by various entities to make TFG appear faintly reasonable...

Must have been astounding.

If even a fraction of the stories about what was seen during the filming of the reality show were accurate. Still unreleased or acknowledged, BTW.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, M$$$$$m gets busy Trying to

make the Psycho "normal".. Fuck Off to Hell Enemies of Democracy

Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[Wounded Bear]

3. Meh, we all knew he was an asshole...nt

[Solly Mack]

6. How is it possible to be shocked by anything Trump does?

He came into office a serial sexual predator. He lies with every breath he takes. He bragged about wanting to date his own daughter. He can't stop talking about how good looking and "fuckable" he thinks she is.

And then once he was in office, he was his usual obscene and vulgar self but with far more power to be worse - and he was. Four years of destructive and deranged behavior that revealed just who he is on a daily basis.

So, why the shock?

Why pretend his behind the scenes behavior was somehow worse than what he showed to the world?

Trump was always at his worse. It's the only speed he knows.

Everyone who was waiting on him to pivot showed themselves to be idiots.

Everyone who viewed him through the lens of his title were fools.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. "...paints shocking portrait of Trump"

Obligatory response:

[UTUSN]

9. K&R