Two Secret Service agents also spoke with
CNN about what transpired between Trump and his security detail as he left his Jan. 6 rally in the presidential motorcade.
Those moments came under intense scrutiny after
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows,
testified Tuesday before the House committee investigating the riot that Tony Ornato, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, told her Trump had lost his temper when his Secret Service agents refused to drive him to the Capitol, lunged toward an agent and tried to grab the steering wheel.
The story has circulated throughout the Secret Service for the past year, the agents told CNN. They were not present in the car but heard several
accounts similar to Hutchinson’s.
“He had sort of lunged forward ― it was unclear from the conversations I had that he actually made physical contact, but he might have. I don’t know,” one said. “Nobody said Trump assaulted him;
they said he tried to lunge over the seat ― for what reason, nobody had any idea.”
Neither of the agents told CNN they’d heard stories about Trump trying to grab the steering wheel.
Sources who spoke to the Post also commented on the car incident, with one former law enforcement official saying three agents who were with Trump on Jan. 6 are disputing that Trump ever grabbed or assaulted anyone or reached for the steering wheel.
However, the source said, they do not dispute that Trump was furious at them.