Cassidy Hutchinson

2022 - 12 - 22

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Cassidy Hutchinson Told Jan. 6 Panel That Lawyer Tried to ... (The New York Times)

Cassidy Hutchinson recounted to the House select committee how a lawyer with ties to former President Donald J. Trump said to her that she should “focus on ...

Hutchinson said, Mr. Mr. “Mr. Passantino in a hallway that she felt as though she had lied to the committee by avoiding talking about the incident. In a statement, Mr. “She told Mr. Hutchinson also said Mr. “Mark wants you to know that he knows you’re loyal and he knows you’ll do the right thing tomorrow and that you’re going to protect him and the boss,” she quoted Mr. Meadows described Mr. Another time, Mr. Hutchinson told the committee that she had been told by several allies of Mr. Trump said to her that she should “focus on protecting the president.”

'He knows he lost': Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump ... (CNN)

Shortly after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told his aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, that President ...

But “Ornato professed that he did not recall either communication, and that he had no knowledge at all about the president’s anger.” “He did request her to do briefings on it as well, but we did not.” I have no reason to believe that he was referencing any other incident.” In the April 16 call, Hutchinson described a phone conversation to committee investigators where Ornato made a comment like “it could be worse. I have no doubts in how I’ve relayed that story privately and publicly” Hutchinson said, according to the transcript, which was released Thursday. “I have no doubts in the conversation that I had with Mr.

Cassidy Hutchinson knew she was going to be 'nuked' for turning on ... (NBC News)

New transcripts of testimony from the star Jan. 6 committee witness paint an intimate portrait of a young, desperate woman torn between her conscience and ...

He said he is taking a leave of absence from the law firm where he is a partner, Michael Best, which he said was not involved in Hutchinson’s defense, because he does not want to be a “distraction.” “I just kind of compartmentalized any guilt that I had had and was just like, 'let me just move on,'” she testified. “I want to make this clear to you: Stefan never told me to lie," she told the committee. Her Trumpworld lawyer, Passantino, was not happy, she said, and began frantically calling his colleagues to do damage control. So I’m, in driving, sort of trying to read about him,” Hutchinson said. I try to get out — I try to get out of here,” she later testified. Let’s just get you in and out,” she said he told her, according to the transcripts. She felt like she had lied and felt bad but tried to forget about it. 6 insurrection, had remained “loyal” and “in the family,” as Trumpworld insiders kept reminding her, according to transcripts of her testimony released Thursday. I need to get out of this situation,'" she said. “We just want to focus on protecting the president. ... Maybe they really do want to take care of you and they are trying to make this easy on you.

Cassidy Hutchinson Says She Was Urged Not to Reveal Trump ... (Bloomberg)

The White House aide who testified that Donald Trump had an angry outburst at his security detail on Jan. 6, 2021 was urged in advance not to bring up the ...

Cassidy Hutchinson claims Trump figures sought to influence her ... (The Washington Post)

The former White House aide's allegations come in transcripts released by the House Jan. 6 committee as it prepares to end its work.

[Five people died](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trump-riot-death-medical-exainer/2021/04/07/53806608-97cf-11eb-a6d0-13d207aadb78_story.html?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_5) on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and [140 police officers were assaulted](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police-capitol-riot/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_6). Capitol](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/jan-6-insurrection-capitol/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_4) in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. “I have no doubts in the conversation that I had with Mr. Hutchinson told the committee that following her appearance, Passantino frantically sought to alert lawyers for Meadows and others about what the committee knew. But Passantino told her that if he didn’t relay the information — and it presumably would leak out soon — that Meadows would think she was a witness against him. Hutchinson confided that she had been withholding information from the committee at the behest of Passantino, according to her testimony. [Here’s what the criminal referrals mean](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/12/19/jan-6-criminal-referrals-faq/?itid=lb_the-jan-6-insurrection_3). “‘He knows that we’re all on the same team and we’re all a family.’” During a break in the interview, she recalled, Passantino pressed her: “How do they have all of this? “I would have heard if he was mad about anything discussed in yours, but it’s just a good reminder that the boss does read transcripts,” Hutchinson recalled Passantino telling her. “We’re gonna get you a really good job in Trump world,” Hutchinson said Passantino told her in one phone call days ahead of her scheduled testimony. Hutchinson said she received texts from Justin Clark, a former Trump campaign lawyer, on 10 different days in March, beginning four days ahead of her scheduled testimony.

Jan. 6 witness recounts pressure campaign from Trump allies (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan.

She said she had been told that Trump had actually tried to lunge at the agent driving the SUV that took him back to the White House on Jan. You know, he knows that we’re all on the same team and we’re all a family.” She testified publicly in June — this time accompanied by a new lawyer — and in one of the more dramatic moments of the committee’s hearings. All the while, Hutchinson told the committee, other Trump advisers appeared to be taking a keen interest in her cooperation, as well as her financial situation and job status. As Hutchinson prepared for her first interview with the committee later that month, she said Passantino advised her to “keep your answers short, sweet, and simple, seven words or less. At least, I think I handled some things wrong in the first interview,” she said in the interview. You know, I never wanted or thought that I would be the witness that I have become, because I thought that more people would be willing to speak out too.” We don’t want to talk about that,” she described him as saying. She said she was contacted in February by Stefan Passantino, a former White House ethics counsel, who told her he would be her lawyer. Like other aides whose proximity to Trump entangled them in investigations, Hutchinson scrambled to find a lawyer after receiving a subpoena from the committee last year. “In my mind this whole time I felt this moral struggle,” she said, according to the transcripts. She described his directive that magnetometers be removed from a rally of his supporters that day and detailed his angry — and ultimately rebuffed — demands to be taken by the Secret Service to the Capitol to join the crowd trying to disrupt the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president.