The former White House staffer who testified about the actions of former President Donald Trump during the insurrection writes of her experience as a witness before the January 6 Committee.
How had I gotten here? What had I done to wind up in this predicament, a featured player in a Washington political scandal, struggling to keep my composure under the glare of television lights as I became, depending on your political allegiance, briefly famous or infamous?
The atmosphere was charged, to say the least. Everyone in the room—committee members, reporters, spectators—seemed attuned to the sense that something dramatic and important was about to happen. So was I, the hearing's sole witness. The committee had been methodical in planning its five previous hearings. Today's hearing had been rushed, out of concerns for my safety, news reports claimed, and, I expect, out of concern that I might back out at the last minute.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in as she testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, D.C. When the hearing concluded, press accounts described me as cool, calm, and collected. Acolumnist wrote that I"had a preternatural poise.
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