House Panel Grills Agents In Trump’s Jan. 6 Motorcade

CNN reports:

The House January 6 select committee is getting a window into former President Donald Trump’s motorcade on the day of the US Capitol attack, interviewing on Friday the Secret Service agent who was in the lead car on January 6 and scheduling testimony from the driver of Trump’s presidential vehicle as soon as next week.

The rapid clip of interviews underscores the committee’s interest in learning what occurred after Trump left his rally at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, and departed to the White House. Several witnesses previously told the committee that Trump angrily demanded to go to the Capitol but that his Secret Service detail declined to take him.

Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly on June 28 that former Secret Service Assistant Director Tony Ornato, who was in the car with Trump, told her that Trump got so angry that he reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel.

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