
Trump Driver Contradicts Jan. 6 Claim From Star Witness
Published on March 11, 2024
The Secret Service agent who was driving the SUV with then-President Donald Trump inside on Jan. 6, 2021, refuted the claim that President Trump grabbed for the wheel of the vehicle, according to a U.S. House of Representatives report issued on March 11. The agent, who is not being identified by name by lawmakers, told a House panel that he “did not see him reach.” President Trump “never grabbed the steering wheel,” the agent said. “I didn’t see him lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.” The testimony was given to the Democrat-dominated select committee convened to investigate Jan. 6 in the previous Congress and quoted in a new interim report by House Republicans, who are probing the work that committee did....
