The man in charge of protecting the Senate during the Capitol riot has died just a day before the Committee investigating the attack was set to reveal new evidence in a surprise session.
Michael Stenger, 71, was the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate on the day of the attempted insurrection.
He resigned amid criticism he had failed to react effectively to the building being overrun.
His sudden death on Monday came the same day an unexpected additional hearing of the committee investigating the riot was announced.
The surprise meeting will ‘present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.’
The committee is set to hear from Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, on Tuesday.
Punchbowl News reported that the hearing was set because of ‘sincere concerns’ for Hutchinson’s physical safety over her revelations to the panel, including her claims that Trump approved of ‘hang Mike Pence’
She will be the first White House employee to testify publicly before the committee.
GOOD !!!!! Democrat puppet GONE Finally !!!!!!! Real Justice & KARMA !!!!!
Appears he had made contradictory statements to what the DEMOCRATIC committee’s agenda was attempting to persuade the US public to believe. Now he is a victim of the HILLARY/SOROS MAFIA
looks like Pelosi has a little more pull than we thought
Just to correct the record. Not likely a Democrat.
He was appointed by Mitch McConnell when he was Senate leader when Republicans had a Senate majority. That changed when the current Congress was sworn in a few days prior to Jan 6 2021. At that point Schumer was poised to take control of the Senate and he would have installed his own guy, with or without the Jan. 6 fracas.
Information about cause and circumstances of his passing seems sketchy at this point. He wasn’t a young man but younger than Pelosi and Biden.