Donald Trump ‘tried to grab handlebars’ and drive ‘The Beast’ to US Capitol during riots

Donald Trump ‘tried to grab handlebars’ and drive ‘The Beast’ to US Capitol during riots

According to her evidence, Mr. Trump replied that he thought “Mike deserves it”.

It was when Mr. Trump got into the “Beast” that his security team warned him that they could not safely transport him to Capitol Hill, triggering his tantrum.

The president was told “we don’t have the assets” and “it’s not safe,” Ms. Hutchinson.

She added: “The president had a very strong, very angry response. Tony described him as angry.

“The president said something along the lines of, ‘I’m the last president, take me to the Capitol now’.”

Trump ‘thrown plates’

The commission provided further evidence of Mr Trump’s tantrums.

In a video testimony from Kayleigh McEnany, his former press secretary, Trump once threw his lunch against the wall, causing broken china and ketchup to drip down a wall in the White House.

Hutchinson told the committee she was aware of multiple instances where Mr Trump “either threw plates or turned the tablecloth over to make all the contents of the table fall to the floor and likely break or go all over the place.”

Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony provided the panel investigating the Capitol attack with some of the biggest revelations yet.

Her appearance is shrouded in extraordinary secrecy and was announced just 24 hours earlier.

It was unclear what prompted the surprise appearance, but US media reported that there were “genuine concerns” about Ms. Hutchinson’s physical security because of her evidence before the committee.

In a statement after Tuesday’s hearing, Trump denied attempting to grab the wheel of the “beast” as a “fake story,” which “wouldn’t even have been possible.”

He refuted many of Ms. Hutchinson’s other testimonies, including claims that he had thrown food.

“I hardly knew who she was,” he said of the former White House aide.