The Secret Service agent who was driving the Suburban on January 6th did tell other agents the fat former President had lunged at the steering wheel when told they weren’t going to be driving him to the Capitol after his Ellipse speech and this account had been circulating long before former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified this week, CNN reports.
The details of CNN’s report do not go so far as Trump actually grabbing the wheel as opposed to “lunging” up toward it, nor were there any details of the purported attempt to choke agent Bobby Engel, but now it would seem like the burden of proof is on Engel and Tony Ornato to testify and definitively deny the incident, as well as all the other extremely damning details Hutch revealed publicly in her testimony to the House January 6th Select Committee on Tuesday.