According to CBS News and NBC News, the Secret Service agents are willing to testify that Donald Trump did not try to lunge at them or take control of the car as they drove to the Capitol.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-Trump White House Chief of Staff MarkMeadows, told the House select committee on Tuesday that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol, knowing that his supporters were armed there.
It is not known if Trump was aware of the riot or if it happened at that time.
She said that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in the car and tried to grab the steering wheel as he demanded to be brought to the Capitol.
The driver of the car and the Secret Service agent who was in charge of Trump's security detail are prepared to testify that Trump did not lunge at the steering wheel, according to a source close to the Secret Service.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, told CBS News that the group "has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations."
Peter Alexander, chief White House correspondent for NBC News, said that a source close to the Secret Service told him that both the driver and the man were prepared to testify that neither man was attacked.
A current and a former law enforcement official told The Washington Post that three agents who were with Trump that day disagreed with the idea that he tried to grab the steering wheel.
Some former Trump aides have described Hutchinson's accusations as damning, while others have downplayed her credibility, according to Insider's Joseph Zeballos- Roig.
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