Trump tried to seize steering wheel to go to US Capitol Jan 6: Witness

Then-President Donald Trump grew to become irate and tried to seize the steering wheel of the Secret Service limousine when informed he wouldn’t be becoming a member of supporters transferring on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide testified on Tuesday.

The president had simply completed his speech on the Ellipse exterior the White House the place he exhorted supporters to march on the Capitol.

“I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now,” Trump was quoted as saying by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in testimony to the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol the place lawmakers have been assembly to certify Trump’s loss within the 2020 election.

When he acquired into the limo, nicknamed “the Beast,” he was informed they’d not be going to the Capitol, he had a really offended response.

A Secret Service agent needed to bodily restrain Trump who, sitting within the again seat, used his free hand to lunge towards the neck of Secret Service agent Robert Engel, Hutchinson testified.

“Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge toward Bobby Engel,” she testified.