Tuesday 28 June 2022 11:21 PM Trump said he didn't care Capitol rioters were armed because they're 'not here ... trends now Trump said he didn't care Capitol rioters were armed because they're 'not here to hurt me' and wanted Secret Service to let MORE in so the crowd could get bigger, Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson tells January 6 committee Trump was allegedly 'furious' that his supporters had been stopped from entering the official grounds of his Stop the Steal rally near the White House He was apparently angry that the size of the crowd coming to hear him speak did not appear as big as he wanted it to Some of his armed supporters not getting past the security magnetometers 'Take the effing mags away,' Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson said Trump ordered, referring to the metal detectors attendees had to go through Trump aggressively denied the claims on his social media platform Truth Social 'I didn't want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech. Who would want that?' By Morgan Phillips, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com and Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter Published: 20:39 BST, 28 June 2022 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 28 June 2022 305 shares 399 Viewcomments Former President Trump was furious that a number of his supporters could not get through security at the 'Save America' rally because they were armed with prohibited weapons and demanded metal detectors be removed from the event, according to a former White House staffer. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the Jan. 6 committee in a hearing Tuesday that Trump was 'furious' that his supporters had been stopped from entering the official grounds of his Stop the Steal rally near the White House that preceded the riot. He was apparently angry that the size of the crowd coming to hear him speak did not appear as big as he wanted it to - due to his armed supporters not getting past the security magnetometers. 'Take the effing mags away,' she said Trump ordered, referring to the metal detectors attendees had to go through. 'Who cares if they have weapons, they're not here to hurt me,' the former president allegedly said. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the Jan. 6 committee in a hearing Tuesday that Trump was 'furious' that his supporters had been stopped from entering the official grounds of his Stop the Steal rally Trump was apparently angry that the size of the crowd coming to hear him speak did not appear as big as he wanted it to - due to his armed supporters not getting past the security magnetometers The committee then played a clip of Trump's comments at the rally urging his supporters to march to the Capitol - words that appeared stark in the context of testimony claiming he knew they presented a security risk. Trump aggressively denied the claims on his social media platform Truth Social. 'Never complained about the crowd, it was massive,' he said. 'I didn't want or request that we make room for people with guns to watch my speech. Who would want that?Not me! Besides, there were no guns found or brought into the Capitol Building. So where were all these guns? But sadly, a gun was used to kill Ashli Babbitt, with no price to pay for the person who used it!' Babbitt was fatally shot by police during the Capitol riot as she tried to climb through a broken window into the Speaker's Lobby outside the House chamber. The White House chief of staff's former top aide, just 25 years old, testified on Tuesday that Donald Trump's White House chief of staff told her that 'things could get real, real bad on January 6' just four days before the Capitol riot. Among the more explosive points of the former staffer's testimony include Trump's alleged insistence on joining his supporters at the Capitol - who he was told in advance were armed. 'I'm the effing president, take me to the Capitol now,' she said he ordered. When Secret Service refused, Hutchinson said agents told her that he lunged at the steering wheel of his car - known as The Beast. 'Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. We're going back to the West Wing, we're not going to the Capitol,' Hutchinson was told Secret Service agent Richard Engel said. 'Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel,' Hutchinson recalled. Former Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato 'motioned toward his clavicle,' she added, as a sign the president went for his security detail's throat. Toward the end of the first half of the hearing, Trump took to his app Truth Social to say he 'hardly knows' Hutchinson. 'I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and a 'leaker'), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request now,' he said. Hutchinson described Trump as a person prone to fiery anger, claiming that he once threw his lunch against a wall, shattering a plate, and flipped tablecloths 'to let all the contents at the table go on the floor' multiple times. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility