Then-President Donald Trump was irate and attempted to seize the guidance wheel of the Secret Provider limousine when instructed he would no longer be becoming a member of supporters transferring at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former aide testified on Tuesday.
The president had simply completed his speech on the Ellipse out of doors the White Space the place he exhorted supporters to march at the Capitol.
“I’m the effing president, take me as much as the Capitol now,” Trump used to be quoted as announcing by way of former White Space aide Cassidy Hutchinson in testimony to the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol the place lawmakers have been assembly to certify Trump’s loss within the 2020 election.
When he were given into the limo, nicknamed “the Beast,” he used to be instructed they wouldn’t be going to the Capitol, he had an overly indignant reaction.
A Secret Provider agent needed to bodily restrain Trump who, sitting within the again seat, used his loose hand to lunge towards the neck of Secret Provider agent Robert Engel, Hutchinson testified.
“Mr. Trump then used his loose hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel,” she testified.