Trump lunged at security detail, steering wheel to get to Capitol on Jan.6, aide says
Former President Trump lunged at his own security detail and at the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle when he was told he could not go to the Capitol to join his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, a former top aide testified Tuesday.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol that Trump had been pushing to go to the Capitol after giving a speech on the Ellipse that day.
Hutchinson told the committee that then-deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato told her that Trump was “irate” when Robert Engel, the special agent in charge for Secret Service on Jan. 6, told Trump when he got into the presidential limo that going to the Capitol would not be possible.
“The president had a very strong, a very angry response to that,” Hutchinson testified. “Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the f—— president, take me up to the Capitol now.’”
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