Trump-Limo Secret Service Agents Silent on Jan. 6 So Far: Kinzinger

Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger said the January 6 committee was still waiting on the Secret Service agents that were with Donald Trump on the day of the riot at the U.S. Capitol to come forward and speak with them.

Kinzinger, who is one of the two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, said on Monday's episode of MSNBC's Morning Joe that the committee is willing and waiting to speak to the agents.

The Secret Service agents in question were in the car with former President Donald Trump as the riot at the U.S. Capitol began on January 6, 2021.

This claim by Kinzinger comes after Cassidy Hutchinson, the former top aide to Trump's ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, gave testimony during a committee hearing, saying that Trump had been in a physical altercation with his security detail on January 6 and demanded to go to the Capitol after the riot began.

Hutchinson said that Tony Ornato, the assistant director of the U.S. Secret Service Office of Training, told her that when security declined to bring Trump to the Capitol, the former president allegedly grabbed at the steering wheel of the vehicle transporting him, nicknamed "The Beast."

Kinzinger said the committee would like to speak more about the incident and said that "the door is open" but insisted that the agents would need to speak to the committee while under oath. The Illinois congressman also said—without naming names—that individuals were coming forward to speak about the events of January 6 with the committee, possibly after being inspired by Hutchinson's decision to publicly speak.

"We have heard through anonymous sources in the media that the secret service agents present when Cassidy Hutchinson talked about the heated argument in the limo, the President's 'Beast,' that they were eager to talk to us," Kinzinger said. "We haven't been able to talk to them yet either, we have our doors wide open, they just have to do it under oath.

That on top of again, we just have a lot of people coming forward with pieces of the puzzle, pieces of information. Maybe Cassidy Hutchinson or Sarah Matthews (a former Trump aide) inspired them. We are going to continue to write our report but keep this investigation wide open and get more and more information."

Last week, Kinzinger also reflected on the impact the committee was having on Trump and his standing with Republican voters during an appearance on ABC's This Week.

"This doesn't appear to be having, you know, a ton of impact," he said. "Maybe people are shifting more towards a potential for, I don't know, a Ron DeSantis. Trumpism isn't dying, even though Trump is becoming irrelevant. I am hearing a lot of anecdotal stuff, around the edges, of people who've been hardcore with Trump who now just can't stand him.

"I think, though, long term...in like five years, I still believe it's going to be hard to find someone that will ever admit they were ever a Trump supporter, and I think this is where this impact comes, in future history."

Newsweek reached out to Trump's office for comment.