Key cooperating witness gives January 6th Committee inside info on Donald Trump and Secret Service
When it was reported earlier this year that former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham was fully cooperating with the January 6th Committee, we flagged this as being a big deal. Grisham never did hold a single press conference, but she was very close with the Trumps, so she certainly had a front row seat to January 6th. Sure enough, she’s given the committee inside information that it likely never would have otherwise been able to obtain.
Grisham told the January 6th Committee to look closely at Secret Service agent Anthony Ornato, according to a new report from The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell. It turns out Ornato was the one who warned Mark Meadows on January 4th that the Trump regime’s plans for January 6th could turn violent. The committee has also reportedly looked into why Trump promoted Ornato.
None of this means that Ornato necessarily did anything wrong. It’s just that no one even knew he was a key witness in all of this, until Grisham informed the committee that it needed to look at Ornato as a key witness. When these kinds of investigative probes are successful, it’s always because of this kind of good old fashioned detective work, where you work from the bottom up, and one witness leads to the next. If you cut corners and rush things, you don’t uncover the full scandal.
