Trump's angry request to go to Capitol no secret

Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didn't get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.

The sources said that stories circulated about the incident — including details that are similar to how former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described it to the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 — in the months immediately afterward the U.S. Capitol attack and before she testified this week.

While the details from those who heard the accounts differ, the Secret Service sources say they were told an angry confrontation did occur. And their accounts align with significant parts of Hutchinson's testimony, which has been attacked as hearsay by

Trump and his allies who also have tried to discredit her overall testimony.

Like Hutchinson, one source, a longtime Secret Service employee, said the agents relaying the story described Trump as “demanding” and that the former president said something similar to: “I'm the f--king president of the United States, you can't tell me what to do.” The source said he originally heard that kind of language was used shortly after the incident.

“He had sort of lunged forward — it was unclear from the conversations I had that he actually made physical contact, but he might have. I don't know,” the source said. “Nobody said Trump assaulted him; they said he tried to lunge over the seat — for what reason, nobody had any idea.”

The employee said he'd heard about the incident multiple times as far back as February 2021 from other agents.

The source added that agents often recounted stories of Trump's fits of anger, including the former president throwing and breaking things.

The other Secret Service source, who spoke to the driver and another agent who wasn't there, said he heard about Trump verbally lashing out at his detail but not about any physical altercation. Neither source told CNN they had heard about Trump trying to grab at the steering wheel.