The chief of personnel to Home Speaker Mike Johnson, Hayden Haynes, was detained on a DUI charge following President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, according to an NBC Report.
” A chauffeur backed into a parked car last night around 11:40 p.m. We reacted and detained them for DUI,” the U.S. Capitol Authorities informed The Independent in a declaration on Wednesday. They didn’t react to an ask for a cops report.
Johnson’s workplace validated the event, according to NBC. A police source informed the network that the cops report suggested that Haynes was detained and launched with a citation to appear in court.
Johnson sat behind the president along with Vice President JD Vance throughout Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night.
Haynes has actually long been at Johnson’s side, having actually been chief of personnel given that Johnson ended up being speaker in October 2023. He was likewise Johnson’s chief of personnel in his individual workplace in between 2017 and 2023. He likewise held a variety of tasks for previous Louisiana Republican politician Sen. David Vitter in between 2009 and 2016.
Johnson has stated that he’s waiting his chief, according to NBC.
” The Speaker knows the encounter that happened last night including his Chief of Personnel and the Capitol Authorities,” a representative for the speaker informed the network. “The Speaker has actually understood and worked carefully with Hayden for almost a years and trusted him to act as his Chief of Personnel for his whole period in Congress. Due to the fact that of this and Hayden’s well-regarded credibility amongst Members and personnel alike, the Speaker has complete faith and self-confidence in Hayden’s capability to lead the Speaker’s workplace.”
Many infractions in the country’s capitol are prosecuted by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for D.C., however DUI charges are prosecuted by the D.C. Workplace of the Attorney General Of The United States, under the management of D.C. Chief law officer Brian Schwalb. This might show considerable as the interim U.S. lawyer for D.C., Ed Martin, is a conservative activist with connections to Capitol Hill Republicans.
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