The former aide to former US lawmaker Lori Chavez Deremar and the candidate for President Donald Trump's Labor Secretary, obstructed a security screening in the Congressional office building on Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol said.
“Around 4:08pm, a former council staff member with an active Congressional ID entered the cannon garage and bypassed the security screening. The former staff member left the building a few minutes later.”
Capitol Police said staff did not break into the cannon building, contrary to previous reports.
“Our agents interviewed former staff members and determined that they were not a threat,” the agency added. “The USCP's Office of Professional Responsibility will conduct a management investigation.”
Arrested police after trying to bring a machete and three knives to the US Capitol a few hours before Trump arrived.
On January 11, 2021, National Guard members stand outside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC. (Sarasilviger/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Investigators pulled a video of a former staff member. The officer also showed the image of a bearded man, wearing a hoodie to a council aide when he was pulled out of the cannon garage and asked if they saw him.
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Last month, in another security incident, a man armed with a gun passed through a checkpoint at the Capitol Visitor Center and took a tour of the building. The USCP noted that the magnetometer rang and officers conducted a secondary hand search, but the handgun was missed and the suspect was allowed inside. Police later found the man and arrested him.
Chavez Delemer, the daughter of a member of the Teamsters, resigned from her seat in January after being appointed by Trump to lead the Department of Labor.
Police arrested at the US Capitol holding a bottle of fuel, flare gun and blow torch
Former Congressman Lori Chavez Deremar and R. Lee are attending a House Transportation Committee hearing. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
“Lori has worked tirelessly in both business and labor to build the American workforce and support the hardworking men and women in America,” Trump said on his true social platform at the time. .
“I look forward to working with her to create enormous opportunities for American workers, expanding training and apprenticeships, expanding wages, improving working conditions and regaining manufacturing jobs. .”
Candidates for President Donald Trump and former lawmakers Lori Chavez Deremar, R. Lee and Trump's Secretary of Labor. (Reuters, Getty Images)
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The first-term Republican lost his re-election bid to Democrat Janelle Bynum in November. Chavez Deremar is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions on Wednesday.
