Trump tried to grab steering wheel to join Jan 6 rioters: ex-White House aide

Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on January 6, 2021, when his security detail refused to take him to the U.S. Capitol

The former president dismissed concerns that some supporters gathered for his fiery speech outside the White House that day were carrying AR-15-style rifles.

The ex White House aide claims Trump instead asking security to stop screening attendees with magnetometers so the crowd would look larger.

“Take the effing mags away; they’re not here to hurt me,” Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump’s then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, quoted Trump as saying that day.

“I’m the effing president. Take me up to the Capitol now”

Hutchinson quoted an enraged Trump as saying.

Trump struggled with Secret Service agents who insisted he return to the White House rather than join supporters storming the Capitol.

She said Trump tried from the back seat to grab the steering wheel of the heavily armored presidential vehicle, the “Beast”.

It was one of several of Hutchinson’s disclosures in testimony at the sixth day of House hearings into the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol assault by Trump’s followers.

Trump has denied that he tried to grab the wheel in a post on social media.

“Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order to steer it to the Capitol Building is ‘sick’ and fraudulent,”

donald Trump wrote on Truth Social

Dozens of courts, election officials and reviews by Trump’s own administration rejected his fraud claims.

Four people died the day of the attack, one fatally shot by police and the others of natural causes.

The House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol began its long-awaited public hearings three weeks ago.