The spokesman for the Dunn family, whose son was killed in an automobile accident caused by the wife of a U.S. diplomat, claimed that aides for President Trump acted as ‘henchmen’ during a recent visit to the White House.
Harry Dunn, 19, was killed when Anne Sacoolas, who had been in the United Kingdom for three weeks, drove her car on the wrong side of the road causing a deadly collision with Dunn’s motorcycle. Sacoolas, 42, admitted to being at fault for the collision but fled the United Kingdom for the United States with her husband and three children a short time later under diplomatic immunity. The occupation of Jonathan Sacoolas has not been revealed, though the couple and their family were in the U.K. at a base frequently referred to as the “spy base,” which houses CIA and NSA under diplomatic cover.
Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, Harry’s parents, said they traveled to the U.S. following their son’s death to seek justice and have Sacoolas returned to the U.K. for proper legal repercussions. Their visit to the White House was a surprise to them, though they described an initial meeting with the president to be warm and welcoming.
However, they said, after a few minutes Trump revealed that Anne Sacoolas was also in the White House and he wanted the Dunns to meet her in order to mediate the tension between them. The Dunns claimed that they would not meet her, despite significant pressure from several individuals in the room, as they preferred all interaction with Sacoolas to take place in the U.K., where the crime occurred. The Dunns later described the encounter as an “ambush.”
The family’s spokesman, Radd Sieger, says that several Trump aides behaved as manipulative ‘henchmen’ who were ‘snarling’ demands to meet Sacoolas while his clients met with Trump in the Oval Office. He also noted that the entire meeting became “terrifying” to the Dunns, on a Thursday appearance on CNN to discuss the controversy.
“There was no sort of thought about what these people were going through,” Sieger said. “I presume if there had been a psychiatrist there, he would have said, no way. I’m not a psychiatrist, but I’m protecting these people from harm and you know, you do that in a controlled environment, not in the Oval Office with the cameras and henchmen snarling at us and big Secret Service people. I mean, it was terrifying.”
Sieger identified one of the “henchmen” as national security adviser Robert O’Brien, who told him that Sacoolas would not be returning to the U.K. “He [O’Brien] snarled at me ‘She is never going back, never,'” Sieger said.
