Secret Service Agent Blocked Trump From Going to Capitol on Jan. 6: Driver

Published on March 13, 2024

When then-President Donald Trump finished his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, he wanted to go to the U.S. Capitol. But a Secret Service agent blocked him from going, according to a newly disclosed account. “The president wanted to go to the Capitol,” the Secret Service agent who was driving the vehicle, told a U.S. House of Representatives panel. President Trump and Robert Engel, his lead Secret Service agent, entered the SUV around 1:10 p.m. after President Trump concluded his speech, which was delivered on the Ellipse. “He asked Bob Engel if we could go to the Capitol and why couldn’t we go to the Capitol and was insistent on going to the Capitol,” the driver testified, adding later that the president “was pushing pretty hard to go.”...