Trump Was Told People at Jan. 6 Rally Had Prohibited Items: Secret Service Agent

Then-President Donald Trump was told on Jan. 6, 2021, that some people were not being allowed into an area designated for his speech because they had prohibited items, a Secret Service agent says. “At some point in that day, the president asked some variation of why a group of people—groups of people—weren’t being allowed inside the magnetometers,” the agent testified. Robert Engel, another agent with President Trump, told the president “that it was because … they had prohibited items of some sort,” the agent said. Items prohibited by the Secret Service include aerosols, ammunition, coolers, guns, and selfie sticks. Agents screened people at the magnetometers, or metal detectors....