Tony Ornato, Trump loyalist at heart of explosive Jan. 6 probe, retires from Secret S

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Tony Ornato, a top White House official who controversially oversaw former President Donald Trump’s security detail on Jan. 6, has announced his retirement from the Secret Service.

The onetime deputy White House chief of staff played a crucial but murky role in the drama over Trump’s attempt to force agents to let him lead the attack on the Capitol

Ornato claimed his retirement had nothing to do with Jan. 6 or the glare of publicity he attracted during the committee’s blockbuster hearings.

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He burst into the limelight when bombshell witness Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath to the Jan. 6 committee that Ornato told her about Trump’s effort to go to the Capitol after his fiery speech to a mob of supporters.

Hutchinson said Ornato told her that Trump physically accosted lead agent Richard Engels and angrily ordered Engels to drive the presidential SUV to the Capitol.

Ornato, who returned to the Secret Service after Trump left office, and Engels have denied Hutchinson’s account through a Secret Service spokesman. But they both refused to do so under oath.