Trump's former deputy chief of staff was at the center of Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshell testimony. He announced his retirement from the Secret Service Monday.
has been under intense scrutiny by the January 6 committee, retired on Monday — potentially complicating one aspect of the panel’s inquiry. His exit was “long-planned,” he said in a statement, adding that he is leaving now to “pursue a career in the private sector.”
“I retired from the U.S. Secret Service after more than 25 years of faithful service to my country, including serving the past five presidents,” Ornato said in ato news outlets, explaining that he had been “planning this transition for more than a year.” Ornato ran Trump's security detail before joining Trump's White House staff — an unprecedented move — in 2019. He then returned to the Secret Service to run its training program.
Ornato, who has already reportedly met with the committee twice earlier this year, came under renewed attention over the summer when former White House aideabout Trump’s actions on the day of the January 6 insurrection — including a secondhand account of Trump allegedly lunging at a member of his security team in an attempt to steer the vehicle he was in toward the Capitol where he'd urged supporters to go and “fight” for him. “I’m the fucking president,” Trump allegedly said.
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