Trump Thought He Might Go to the Capitol on January 6 Like Mussolini

• A January 6 panel member spoke to MSNBC after interviewing Secret Service agent Robert Engel.

• Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin mentioned the panel discovered how Trump was “incensed” about not with the ability to “be part of the mob.”
• He mentioned Trump possible thought he would enter “like Mussolini being carried on the shoulders of his supporters.”

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the Home panel investigating the January 6 riot, told MSNBC on Thursday that former President Donald Trump possible thought he would get a hero’s welcome from his supporters on the Capitol.

“The whole lot that we have heard tells me that the previous president was incensed,” Raskin replied. “He was enraged and there was battle about whether or not or not he would go to the Capitol, and he was adamant that he be capable of do this.”

“I think about that he thought that he would enter like Mussolini being carried on the shoulders of his supporters and enter the Capitol,” Raskin mentioned, likening Trump to the Italian fascist dictator. 

Raskin was talking after Secret Service agent Robert Engel — who was with Trump through the riot — testified to the Home panel on Thursday.

The agent’s testimony comes after he was talked about by former Trump Chief of Workers Mark Meadows’ aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, during her interview with the January 6 panel in June. Hutchinson testified that Trump lunged at Engel and tried to seize the steering wheel of his SUV whereas demanding to be delivered to the Capitol.

Raskin mentioned he couldn’t reveal particular particulars about Engel’s testimony at this juncture. Nonetheless, he did say that the panel had discovered how Trump was “incensed and enraged” about not being allowed to go to Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021. Raskin added that Trump was “adamant that he be capable of be part of the mob and method and enter the Capitol with them.”

“Donald Trump actually went to mattress the evening earlier than on the night of January 5 believing that he was going to be staying in workplace for an additional 4 years,” Raskin added. “And he believed that via the day.” 

The Home panel in October unanimously voted to subpoena Trump, following a number of hearings chock-full of damning testimony in regards to the former president’s conduct on January 6, 2021. Trump’s refusal to adjust to this subpoena may result in him being held in contempt of Congress and be prosecuted. 

In response to the subpoena, Trump despatched a 14-page document to the January 6 panel that began with the sentence, “THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2020 WAS RIGGED AND STOLEN!” The doc additionally contained a number of baseless claims of election fraud.

Trump this month additionally filed a lawsuit against the January 6 committee in an try to dam its subpoena. Legal professionals for the previous president are arguing that Congress doesn’t have the authority to subpoena him, a former president. 

Trump’s lawsuit, nonetheless, implies that the previous president may probably delay testifying till effectively after the panel is slated to dissolve along with the 117th Congress on January 3, 2023.

A consultant at Trump’s post-presidential press workplace didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s request for remark.