Tony Ornato is the name I was trying to remember.

[fightforfreedom]

He was the Secret Service assistant director for training under Trump. He also worked as White House deputy Chief of Staff under Meadows before returning to the Secret Service. After J6 he suddenly retired from the Secret Service.

This guy must be investigated because he is a Trump following lunatic who was up to no good. He knows what was going on with the Secret Service during J6. In my opinion he is a traitor.

[gab13by13]

1. Tony Ornato retired,

1 day before he was scheduled to appear before the J6 committee. As a retiree the J6 had no power to compel him to testify.

Getting Ornato to testify will have to be left to Garland and Wray, and we will never know if that happens because DOJ doesn't leak.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Anthony Ornato seems to be a co-conspirator.

SECRET SERVICE OFFICIAL TONY ORNATO'S RETIREMENT COULD COMPLICATE JAN. 6 PROBES

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.

BY ERIC LUTZ
Vanity Fair, August 30, 2022

Tony Ornato, the former Secret Service official whose work for former President Donald Trump 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 a statement to 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 aide Cassidy Hutchinson delivered an explosive testimony about 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. “Take me up to the Capitol now.”

Hutchinson said she heard about the incident from Ornato, the deputy chief of staff at the time, and Robert Engel, the head of Trump’s security detail. Anonymous sources told news outlets shortly afterward that Ornato “disputed” her testimony, while Trump and allies sought to cast doubt on her credibility. But members of the January 6 committee defended her: Republican Liz Cheney, the ranking member, told ABC News that investigators were “confident” in her testimony and that the panel would not “stand by and watch her character be assassinated by anonymous sources.” Some members of the committee, including Republican Adam Kinzinger, called Ornato’s own credibility into question.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/08/tony-ornato-retires-secret-service-january-6-committee