Newly released Secret Service records describe how a member of Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, carried a loaded gun past a Secret Service screening checkpoint last year while President Trump was at the club, according to reporting by the Washington Times on the records.
The Washington Times reported the account in a pair of posts dated October 8 and October 9, 2026, describing records that detail the screening failure at the club. The paper's posts state that the member carried a loaded weapon past the checkpoint during a period when Trump was present at the Sterling property.
Attention to the records spread quickly across conservative accounts online, where commentators tied the disclosure to a separate and unconfirmed development involving Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who testified publicly before the House January 6 select committee.
According to the account @GuntherEagleman, in a post dated October 8, the Justice Department is reportedly asking a grand jury to indict Hutchinson for lying to Congress. The post referenced Hutchinson's prior testimony, invoking what it called the steering wheel story and the account of Trump lunging at his own Secret Service agent in the presidential vehicle known as the Beast.
"Remember Cassidy Hutchinson? The steering wheel story. Trump lunging at his own Secret Service agent in the Beast," the post read. "LOL! The fake news media ran it wall to wall. Now DOJ is reportedly asking a grand jury to indict her for lying to Congress. No charges filed yet, so let it play."
That post did not cite a source for the grand jury claim and did not name any official involved. It also noted explicitly that no charges have been filed.
Hutchinson's 2022 testimony became one of the most widely covered episodes of the January 6 select committee's public hearings. Her account of events inside the presidential vehicle that day was disputed at the time by Secret Service personnel who were present, and it became a durable reference point in conservative criticism of the committee's work.
The pairing of the two storylines reflects how the Secret Service records disclosure moved through the same online spaces that have carried the Hutchinson matter. Rather than remaining a discrete story about a security lapse at a Virginia golf club, the records became a talking point in a broader argument about the agency's conduct and about the credibility of prior testimony concerning the Secret Service.
Separately, other coverage in recent days has focused on FBI records involving Susie Wiles, the longtime Trump adviser. One report described declassified documents revealing the bureau tracked at least thirty-nine contacts tied to Wiles, monitoring her calls with attorneys and campaign officials.
Another report stated that documents show the FBI tracked Wiles' communications with various individuals after the Mar-a-Lago raid, and monitored the movements of Donald Trump, Melania Trump and Barron Trump ahead of the search. That coverage indicated details were obtained about their travel plans and timing. A further report said White House documents show the Wiles FBI phone records covered at least February through May of 2023 and included lawyers, journalists and Secret Service contacts.
Taken together, the disclosures have fed a sustained line of criticism from conservative commentators aimed at the Secret Service and the FBI, two agencies at the center of several of the most contested episodes of the past several years.
The account @GuntherEagleman's post is a social media post, not reporting, and its characterization of the grand jury request is presented as a claim rather than a confirmed fact. Next News Network could not independently verify the claim that the Justice Department has asked a grand jury to indict Hutchinson for lying to Congress, nor could it independently verify the underlying account in the Secret Service records describing the gun at the Sterling club.
No indictment has been announced, and no charging document involving Hutchinson has been made public in connection with the claim.
The Washington Times posts did not identify the club member by name, and neither post described what security measures followed the checkpoint failure or what disciplinary action, if any, resulted.
What is clear from the material circulating is the shape of the reaction: a records disclosure about a security failure at a Trump property, arriving alongside a reported but uncharged development involving a former committee witness, each amplifying the other in the same corners of the internet.
Our Take
Two things can be true at once, and the establishment press would prefer you only hear one of them.
The first is that a loaded weapon reportedly walked past a Secret Service screening checkpoint at a club where the President of the United States was present. That is not a partisan talking point. That is the exact scenario the agency exists to prevent, and the records describing it deserve a full public accounting, not a single news cycle. If the reporting on the records holds up, somebody inside the Secret Service owes the American people an explanation for how it happened and what changed afterward.
The second is that the men and women who spent years parading Cassidy Hutchinson before cameras as the definitive word on January 6 are now watching a reported grand jury request land on her doorstep. No charges have been filed, and we will say so plainly, because we deal in facts and not in the wishful thinking that powered the January 6 hearings. But the same media that ran the steering wheel story wall to wall, that treated a secondhand account of a lunging president as settled history, is suddenly very interested in standards of evidence.
Notice the pattern. When the story damages Trump, it is a blockbuster. When the story damages the agencies that spent years investigating him, it is a records release buried on a Friday. The FBI tracked Susie Wiles' calls. Agents catalogued the movements of Melania and Barron Trump before a raid on their home. A gun got past a checkpoint at Trump's club. Every one of those disclosures points in the same direction, and every one of them arrived with less fanfare than a single anonymous quote about a steering wheel.
We are not asking you to take anyone's word for it. We are asking you to keep score. The people who demand transparency loudest are the ones who go quietest when the documents land on their own side of the aisle.
Let it play, as the post said. The truth has a way of arriving whether the press covers it or not.
