Witness to Jan. 6 probe: Trump tried to take the wheel—literally—in bid to crash democracy
On the day of the insurrection, and after then-President Donald Trump delivered a speech from the Ellipse that inspired a mob to lay siege, he desperately wanted to go to the Capitol.
In his remarks that afternoon, he told the mass of his supporters he would walk with them to the Capitol no less than twice. They would “go together,” Trump said to wild cheers.