The U.S. Capitol Police stated the chief of workers to Speaker Mike Johnson was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving on Tuesday evening after the highest aide backed his automobile right into a parked Capitol Police car.
The arrest got here quickly after President Trump, with Mr. Johnson presiding behind him, completed delivering his first handle to a joint session of Congress since returning to workplace.
“A driver backed right into a parked car final evening round 11:40 p.m.,” a Capitol Police spokesman stated in an announcement. “We responded and arrested them for D.U.I.”
Mr. Johnson’s workplace confirmed on Wednesday that Hayden Haynes, the speaker’s chief of workers, was concerned in an “encounter” with Capitol Police on Tuesday evening, releasing an announcement that indicated that he would proceed to carry his highly effective submit.
“The speaker has identified and labored carefully with Hayden for almost a decade and trusted him to function his chief of workers for his whole tenure in Congress,” Taylor Haulsee, Mr. Johnson’s spokesman, stated in an announcement concerning the arrest, which was reported earlier by NBC News. “Due to this and Hayden’s esteemed status amongst members and workers alike, the speaker has full religion and confidence in Hayden’s capacity to steer the speaker’s workplace.”
Mr. Haynes was launched with a quotation, relatively than taken to jail, and would have a court docket date “throughout the coming weeks,” in response to the Capitol Police. Since drunken-driving circumstances in Washington, D.C., are prosecuted by the district’s legal professional common relatively than the U.S. district legal professional’s workplace below the Justice Division, the Trump administration would don’t have any obvious position within the case.
