WASHINGTON, June 28 – An angry Donald Trump tried to carry on to the wheel of the key Service Limousine when the then-president was told he wouldn’t join fans who moved to the US Capitol on Epiphany, 2021, the previous president. the assistant testified on Tuesday.
Speaking to a House of Representatives committee investigating the Three Kings’ Day attack, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described Trump’s actions after concluding his speech at Ellipse outside the White House when he urged his supporters to pass on the Capitol.
Trump wanted to hitch the protesters within the government seat, where lawmakers were meeting to verify Joe Biden’s Democratic Alliance victory in the 2020 election, Trump said.
“I’m a late president, so take me to the Capitol now,” Hutchinson quoted Trump as telling SS agents.
When he entered the limo, nicknamed “The Beast,” he was told that they’d not be visiting the Capitol.
A Secret Service agent had to physically hold Trump who, sitting within the back seat, used his freedom to bend the neck of United States Secret Service agent Robert Engel, Hutchinson testified.
“Mr. Trump then used his blank check to leap on Bobby Engel,” he testified.
Trump has denied his account in an exceedingly social media post. He said he never tried to carry the wheel.
“His Fake Story that I attempted to carry the handwheel of the White House Limousine to direct to the Capitol Building is ‘sick’ and deceptive,” he wrote in his Truth Social account.
He also denied Hutchinson’s evidence that he threw food and plates at the White House several times.