The U.S. Capitol Police mentioned the manager of workforce to Speaker Mike Johnson was once arrested for drunken riding on Tuesday night time after the highest aide sponsored his automobile right into a parked Capitol Police car.
The arrest got here quickly after President Trump, with Mr. Johnson presiding in the back of him, completed handing over his first deal with to a joint consultation of Congress since returning to administrative center.
“A driving force sponsored right into a parked car closing night time round 11:40 p.m.,” a Capitol Police spokesman mentioned in a commentary. “We spoke back and arrested them for D.U.I.”
Mr. Johnson’s administrative center showed on Wednesday that Hayden Haynes, the speaker’s leader of workforce, was once concerned about an “come upon” with Capitol Police on Tuesday night time, freeing a commentary that indicated that he would proceed to carry his robust submit.
“The speaker has identified and labored intently with Hayden for just about a decade and depended on him to function his leader of workforce for his complete tenure in Congress,” Taylor Haulsee, Mr. Johnson’s spokesman, mentioned in a commentary concerning the arrest, which was reported earlier by NBC News. “On account of this and Hayden’s esteemed popularity amongst participants and workforce alike, the speaker has complete religion and self assurance in Hayden’s talent to steer the speaker’s administrative center.”
Mr. Haynes was once launched with a quotation, reasonably than taken to prison, and would have a court docket date “throughout the coming weeks,” in step with the Capitol Police. Since drunken riding circumstances in Washington, D.C., are prosecuted by way of the district’s lawyer normal reasonably than the U.S. district lawyer’s administrative center beneath the Justice Division, the Trump management would don’t have any obvious function within the case.
