Secret Service Official at Heart of Jan. 6 Hearing Retires

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in to testify as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, on June 28, 2022. Shawn Thew/AFP via Getty Images

Tony Ornato, who was former President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for operations during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, has retired from the U.S. Secret Service.

Ornato took on the White House post in December 2019, when the former president made the appointment saying that he was comfortable with Ornato since he had worked with the Secret Service official for three years. After President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he took on the position of assistant director of the Secret Service’s Office of Training.