Police Officer Calls Trump a ‘Hitman’ Who Sent Insurrectionists to the U.S. Capitol at Committee Hearing

Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn called Donald Trump a “hitman” while testifying before the January 6th House Select Committee, asking Congress to hold the former president accountable for his role in the insurrection.

There is a sentiment going around that says, ‘everybody is trying to make January 6th political.’ Well, it’s not a secret that it was political,” Dunn said during Tuesday’s first day of hearings. “They literally were there to ‘stop the steal.’ So when people say it shouldn’t be political, it is. It was and it is. There’s no getting around that.”

Dunn went to praise GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (WY) and Adam Kinzinger (IL) for their commitment to telling the truth about that day, yet questioned why they’re being “lauded as courageous heroes.”

“Telling the truth shouldn’t be hard,” he said. “Fighting on January 6th — that was hard. Showing up January 7th, that was hard. The 8th, the 9th, the 10th all the way until today, that was hard. When the fence came down, that was hard. We lost a layer of protection that we had, and the fence came down and still, nothing has changed. Everything is different, but nothing has changed.”

Dunn reasoned that “in this America,” telling the truth is considered a feat, later recognizing his colleagues as the true heroes.

“Us four officers, we would do January 6th all over again. We wouldn’t stay home because we knew it was going to happen. We would show up. That’s courageous. That’s heroic,” he said before asking the lawmakers to hold Trump accountable.

“What I ask from you all is to get to the bottom of what happened,” he said, adding, “If a hitman is hired and he kills somebody, the hitman goes to jail. But not only does the hitman go to jail, but the person who hired them does. There was an attack carried out on January 6th, and a hitman sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that.”

Watch above, via CNN.