Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described to the House Jan. 6 committee a wide-ranging pressure campaign from Donald Trump’s allies aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress and stifling potentially damaging testimony about him.
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 28, 2022.
The transcripts provide previously unknown details about what Hutchinson called the “moral struggle” — torn between the desire to speak the truth and to remain loyal to Trump — that she says she endured on the way to becoming one of the most memorable witnesses of the committee’s investigation.In a televised hearing in June, Hutchinson went public about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
She said she was contacted in February by Passantino, a former White House ethics counsel, who told her he would be her lawyer. He said she would not have to pay for his services but demurred when she asked from where the money was coming. She later learned that it was from Trump allies. “No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that,” she described him as saying.
She said that a friend and Meadows aide, Ben Williamson, had spoken with her the night before the second interview with the committee and told her, “Well, Mark wants me to let you 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. You know, he knows that we’re all on the same team and we’re all a family.
She drove to the house of Alyssa Farah, a former White House official who had had her own public split from the Trump administration, and asked her to serve as a back channel to the committee because she still had more she wanted to say.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.
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