Cassidy Hutchinson

The top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who testified before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, ...

A person close to Hutchinson has told CNN she previously testified to the committee for at least 20 hours detailing her time in key meetings at the White House as Trump and his allies tried to overturn the election results. CNN also reported that Hutchinson has become increasingly aware of the safety risk speaking in front of the committee poses and has been on alert. She also testified that Meadows was directly warned prior to the insurrection of the possible violence. She traveled on AF1 with Mark for every trip." Meadows made Hutchinson his legislative aide, and she would accompany Meadows to Capitol Hill for his most serious meetings. And even if Trump didn't know her name he most certainly recognized her.

The former top White House aide delivered a series of surprising revelations about behavior by Donald Trump and his inner circle before the Capitol attack.

“There was ketchup dripping down the wall and a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” Hutchinson testified, noting that aides nearby conveyed the president was “extremely angry” at the Barr interview. “I remember him saying something to the effect of, ‘How much longer does the president have left in his speech?’“ Hutchinson said. McCarthy then asked Hutchinson, as she remembered it: “Why would you lie to me?” Take me up to the Capitol now,’” Hutchinson said. The president said something to the effect of, ‘I am the fucking president. Hutchinson told the committee that she heard from a top presidential security official, Tony Ornato, about an altercation on Jan. 6, as Trump continued pressing to go to the Capitol following his speech to supporters at the “Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse. When Trump was told he would return to the White House instead of going to the Capitol that day, while being driven in the presidential vehicle known as “the Beast,” Hutchinson recalled hearing that he became irate.

WASHINGTON — Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to President Donald J. Trump's final chief of staff, delivered explosive testimony on Tuesday to the House ...

Mr. Cipollone replied, according to Ms. Hutchinson: “Something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood’s going to be on your f-ing hands. “I remember Pat saying something to the effect of, ‘Mark, we need to do something more. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the potential testimony. “And Mark had responded something to the effect of, ‘You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike deserves it. Why would you lie to me?” Mr. McCarthy said, according to Ms. Hutchison. Secret Service officials said Mr. Engel and the driver of Mr. Trump’s SUV are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted by the president and that he did not reach for the wheel of the vehicle. Backstage at the rally on the Ellipse, she overheard Mr. Trump angrily tell aides to let his supporters into the event space, concerned that the area looked empty. Here are the main themes that have emerged so far: “I remember him saying, ‘All right,’” she said. Mr. Ornato replied that he had, Ms. Hutchinson said. Take the mags away. They’re not here to hurt me.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, made several shocking revelations about Trump and Meadows in nationally ...

One sign of Hutchinson's possible willingness to cooperate with investigations is her choice of lawyers. She told the committee that at least five Republican members of Congress involved in plans to substitute electors sought pardons from Trump. They help with the logistics of media coverage, prepare for public events and answer the phones. Because they’re often within earshot as the country’s most powerful people gossip and plan, discretion is expected. She showed her proximity and familiarity with key Trump figures, referring at times to Meadows, security official Tony Ornato, and national security adviser Robert O'Brien by their first names. WASHINGTON - Just two years out of college, Cassidy Hutchinson watched as a valet mopped up the president's lunch after he smashed his plate against the wall.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after completing a White House summer internship, Cassidy Hutchinson was in the room where the president's top aides debated how ...

One sign of Hutchinson's possible willingness to cooperate with investigations is her choice of lawyers. They help with the logistics of media coverage, prepare for public events and answer the phones. Because they’re often within earshot as the country’s most powerful people gossip and plan, discretion is expected. “My small contribution to the quest to maintain American prosperity and excellence is a memory I will hold as one of the honors of my life,” she said in the piece. She recently switched from a former Trump White House official to a veteran former Justice Department official who served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and who emerged as a key witness for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Hutchinson has described meetings with the White House counsel's office in which participants discussed the legality of substituting electors for states that went for Biden, then the president-elect, with false “alternate electors” who would select Trump. The former president and his allies tried in vain to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was overseeing the certification of electors on Jan. 6.

The former White House aide was compared to John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, whose public testimony was pivotal in describing his ...

She said she grew increasingly frustrated that Mr. Meadows did not seem to care that the protest was growing out of control. Ms. Hutchinson was at the White House, in the office of legislative affairs, when Mr. Meadows became chief of staff in March 2020. Mr. Trump swiftly condemned Ms. Hutchinson on Tuesday on Truth Social, his social media network, as “a total phony” and “a leaker,” and asserted that he hardly knew her. She began her career in Washington as an intern on Capitol Hill for Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the second-ranking House Republican. “She worked in the West Wing, several steps down from the Oval Office,” Ms. Cheney said. But other than Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer, few have gone under oath to describe his temper and erratic personality to the extent that Ms. Hutchinson did. “She was able to fill in the information from her observations instantly.” “He doesn’t want to do anything, Pat,” Ms. Hutchinson recounted Mr. Meadows as saying. In a brief interview on Tuesday, Mr. Dean said Ms. Hutchinson had met the “standard” of being a significant witness and that she did so quickly. She was 22 years old, a rising college senior who went to work as a summer intern in the Trump White House in 2018. She described her revulsion at Mr. Trump’s attacks on former Vice President Mike Pence, including his Twitter post condemning Mr. Pence while the Capitol riot was taking place. For two stunning hours on live television, Ms. Hutchinson described an unhinged former president who, she said, was warned that his supporters were carrying weapons and expressed no concern because they were not a threat to him.

Hutchinson, who served as a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, presented explosive testimony.

They’re literally calling for the vice president to be [expletive] hung.” She said she entered the dining room, where a broken plate lay on the floor with ketchup dripping down the wall. Federal agents have seized the phones of Jeffrey Clark and John Eastman, two lawyers who pushed false claims of election fraud and the discredited theory that Joe Biden’s electors could be replaced. She testified that as Trump rallied supporters on the Ellipse, she received an angry call from House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who had just heard the president say he was coming to the Capitol. “Don’t come up here,” McCarthy told her, before hanging up. Giuliani told her it was going to be “a great day” and “we’re going to the Capitol.” And she described Meadows on Jan. 6 as being unconcerned when security officials told him that people at Trump’s rally had weapons — including some wearing armor and carrying firearms. She remembered being “scared, and nervous for what could happen” after conversations with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Meadows, and others. With her proximity to Meadows and other key members of the inner Trump circle, the granular details of Hutchinson’s testimony are among the most damning to come out of the Jan. 6 hearings so far. In a profile of her published by her alma mater, Hutchinson said she was “brought to tears” by the chance at working in the Trump White House as an intern. “I had no idea it’d be THIS damning. Advertisement Hutchinson, who was just two years out of college when the events occurred, is seen as a vital witness, and has provided the committee with some of its most critical revelations at this point in its investigation. Advertisement

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Mark Meadows aide, testified in the January 6 hearings that Trump lunged at Secret Service agent Bobby Engel in his limo on ...

The president “wanted to put that he wanted to potentially pardon them,” she said. Hutchinson revealed that after Trump instructed the crowd to head to the Capitol, he exited the rally stage and got into the presidential limo, known as “the Beast,” thinking he was being taken to join them. Cheney said that the committee has asked witnesses whether they’ve been contacted by anyone attempting to influence their testimony. “You heard him, Pat, he thinks Mike deserves it,” Hutchinson quoted Meadows telling Cipollone about what the two men just heard from Trump. “He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.” Previous witnesses had told the January 6 committee that Trump had been saying he wanted to march to the Capitol with his supporters in the weeks leading up to the rally. “The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the attorney general’s AP interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall.” Meadows and Cipollone then walked a few steps over to the Oval Office dining room, and Hutchinson was in earshot. At the same time, Meadows was fielding a phone call from Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan, who was inside the Capitol was it was under siege. Cipollone told Meadows they needed to speak to the president, but Meadows at first rebuffed him. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top Trump White House aide, delivered stunning testimony before the House Select Committee investigating January 6 on Tuesday, laying bare how unhinged the president behaved during the riot and alleging that a march on the Capitol was planned ahead of time, and not called off despite knowledge that members of the crowd were heavily armed and prepared to commit violence. Robert Engel, the head of Trump’s security detail, grabbed the president’s arm and said, “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. She said Trump was furious with his security officials, and she overheard him saying, “I don’t f- - -ing care that they have weapons.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the Jan. 6 select committee on Capitol Hill.

Hutchinson recalls being told that then-Pres. Trump tried to grab the steering wheel from Secret Service agent after being told he couldn't go to Capitol on Jan. 6." Two sources familiar confirmed to ABC News that Trump had indeed requested to go to Capitol on Jan. 6 and that the Secret Service refused due to security concerns. "The president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Take me up to the Capitol now," Trump allegedly said.— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) https://t.co/APMbsmBznc pic.twitter.com/Y9oRjFgDxr June 28, 2022 It wasn't the first time Trump threw a dish or tablecloth in anger, Hutchinson said. She said Meadows made the remarks to Hutchinson after meeting with Rudy Giuliani, who was at that point a central figure in Trump's campaign to overturn the election. Take the f------ mags away." One point of contention was Trump's speech at the Ellipse, Hutchinson said. The American people won't be left in the dark." With Hutchinson's testimony, Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., argued that Trump and Meadows were well aware of the potential for violence at the Capitol last year yet ultimately dismissed the warnings. "But thanks to the courage of certain individuals, the truth won't be buried. Committee members and even some former Trump staffers hailed the 25-year-old for showing the courage to deliver her testimony publicly.

Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to ...

In response to Herschmann's claim, a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee said, "The committee has done its diligence on this and found Ms. Hutchinson's account of this matter credible. "But Mr. Trump did not take that action at the time." The Jan. 6 committee has repeatedly relied on Herschmann's candid and sometimes vulgar testimony throughout the hearings in June, including when the former White House lawyer testified that he shot down former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark's plan to overturn the 2020 election. Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to release during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was written by him during a meeting at the White House that afternoon, and not by White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Hutchinson, a former top aide to Meadows, said that Meadows handed her the note card and a pen and started dictating a potential statement for Trump to release amid the Capitol riot. "The note memorialized this," the committee spokesperson said.

An unexpected hearing was announced so the House Jan. 6 committee could present "recently obtained evidence" and hear testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson.

In 2019, she began a role at the to the White House's legislative affairs office, committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney said during Tuesday's hearing. "She also worked on a daily basis with members of the Secret Service who were posted in the White House" Hutchinson recently switched lawyers for the hearing. She attended Christopher Newport University and spoke to the school about her White House internship in 2018. In another interview, she testified about White House meetings with several Republican members of Congress, at which a plan to have alternate electors meet and cast votes for Trump in states he lost was discussed, and that the White House counsel's office said such a plan was not legally sound. But I don't know, things might get real, real bad on January 6th.'"

WASHINGTON (AP) — A year and a half after the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the most memorable recounting of former President Donald Trump's behavior ...

“Ms. Hutchinson believes that January 6 was a horrific day for the country, and it is vital to the future of our democracy that it not be repeated.” On the morning of Jan. 6, she said Ornato, a Secret Service agent detailed to the White House, came to warn Meadows that many rallygoers waiting to hear from Trump had guns and other weapons, including spears attached to the end of flagpoles. And another former Meadows aide, Ben Williamson, tweeted criticism of what he called the “nonsense suggestion that Meadows somehow didn’t care about initial violence at the Capitol.” One story that drew pushback was her allegation that Trump lunged for the steering wheel and assaulted a Secret Service agent when his detail wouldn’t take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6. She saw the aftermath of Trump’s rage at Attorney General Bill Barr for telling The Associated Press that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. He continued to post throughout the afternoon, accusing Hutchinson of lying, saying her body language “is that of a total bull.... Several high-profile Republicans said Tuesday that Hutchinson was known to be close to Meadows and often accompanied him in meetings. They help with the logistics of media coverage, prepare for public events and answer the phones. They’re not here to hurt me.” Having once shed tears of joy after getting a White House internship, Hutchinson, now in her mid-20s, described how she grew disgusted by Trump’s refusal to stop the rioters. Hutchinson showed her familiarity with better-known officials in the White House, referring at times to Meadows, security official Tony Ornato, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien by their first names. Hutchinson, meanwhile, became Trump’s focus for the first time.

The former White House aide's revelations about Jan. 6 chipped away at any potential defense that Donald J. Trump was merely expressing well-founded views ...

All month, the House committee has been laying out a detailed argument for why Mr. Trump should be charged with crimes at a series of public hearings. “Until this point, we had not seen proof that he knew about the violence,” said Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as the lead counsel during Mr. Trump’s first impeachment. The extent to which the Justice Department’s expanding criminal inquiry is focused on Mr. Trump remains unclear. According to Ms. Hutchinson, another potential crime that worried Mr. Cipollone was incitement to riot. Here are the main themes that have emerged so far: It was also a potentially consequential moment for any prosecution of Mr. Trump, legal experts said. Some legal scholars have suggested that Mr. Trump could defend himself against the charge by arguing that he did not intend to disrupt the work of Congress through any of his schemes, but rather was acting in good faith to address what he sincerely believed was fraud in the election. Those machinations included a plot to create false slates of electors declaring that Mr. Trump had won the election in states that were actually won by Joseph R. Biden Jr., and a subsequent effort to persuade Mr. Pence to use the phony slates on Jan. 6 to subvert the normal workings of the Electoral College and single-handedly declare Mr. Trump to be the victor. In his ruling, Judge Amit P. Mehta found that after months of creating an “air of distrust and anger” by relentlessly claiming that the election had been stolen, Mr. Trump should have known that his supporters would take his speech not merely as words, but as “a call to action.” While the House committee has always reserved the right to recommend that Mr. Trump be charged, it was revealed this month that the panel and the Justice Department have been at odds over the transcripts of interviews with witnesses like Ms. Hutchinson, with top department officials complaining that by withholding as many as 1,000 transcripts the committee was hampering the work of making criminal cases. Knowing that his crowd of supporters had the means to be violent when he exhorted them to march to the Capitol — and declared that he wanted to go with them — could nudge Mr. Trump closer to facing criminal charges, legal experts said. “There’s still a lot of uncertainty about the question of criminal intent when it comes to a president, but what just happened changed my bottom line,” said Alan Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department official who teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School. “I have gone from Trump is less than likely to be charged to he is more than likely to be charged.”

An unexpected hearing was announced so the House Jan. 6 committee could present "recently obtained evidence" and hear testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson.

In 2019, she began a role at the to the White House's legislative affairs office, committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney said during Tuesday's hearing. "She also worked on a daily basis with members of the Secret Service who were posted in the White House" Hutchinson recently switched lawyers for the hearing. She attended Christopher Newport University and spoke to the school about her White House internship in 2018. In another interview, she testified about White House meetings with several Republican members of Congress, at which a plan to have alternate electors meet and cast votes for Trump in states he lost was discussed, and that the White House counsel's office said such a plan was not legally sound. But I don't know, things might get real, real bad on January 6th.'"

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol heard from its first White House witness Tuesday, scheduling a last-minute hearing ...

Even allies of the former president were forced to acknowledge that her testimony created plenty of new headaches for Trump and his defenders. We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. “It’s a crime to tamper with witnesses, it’s a form of obstructing justice,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said after the hearing. We’re not going to the Capitol.’ And he said, ‘Well, he just said it on stage, Cassidy. Figure it out.’” She answered the phone instead, she said, and delivered it to Meadows in the White House dining room, where the topic was focused on Pence’s safety. The House had left Washington last week for a long Fourth of July recess, and Thompson had said the next public airing wouldn’t happen until lawmakers returned next month. “We’re going to the Capitol. It’s going to be great. Meadows, however, repeatedly told Trump that he was working on getting him to the Capitol. Trump got in his motorcade only to be informed the Secret Service had determined it wasn’t safe. On Tuesday, new revelations emerged that further entrenched several of those lawmakers in the events of Jan. 6. “He felt it was dangerous for the president’s legacy,” she said. “He wants me to let you know that he’s thinking about you.

Hutchinson was a staff assistant in the Office of Legislative Affairs before she assumed the role of special assistant to Trump and advisor to Chief of Staff ...

“She was well liked and well respected. She was also on a first-name basis with most Republican members of Congress, and was plugged in throughout Republican circles.” She flew all over the country on AF1 with the president,” she said in the text. “She was known as an incredibly hard and loyal worker — arriving as early as 6 am and often staying until after midnight. Hutchinson was a staff assistant in the Office of Legislative Affairs before she assumed the role of special assistant to Trump and advisor to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, CNN reported. Hutchinson, a Christopher Newport University graduate, told her college publication in 2018 she was “brought to tears” when she received an email telling her she was selected to be a White House intern under Trump.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson held the nation's attention. But her testimony was just one ingredient in the committee's high drama.

Her realization that her president had deceived her and the American people was evident when she spoke of the conflict and pain she felt over his corrupt and reckless actions. Though the hearings hadn’t been scheduled to resume until July, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) explained in his opening statement that the impromptu sixth session was called to present crucial new evidence to the public. In particular, she had an eye for the humiliating detail known to irk the vain ex-president and reality star. Hutchinson testified that she made multiple attempts to warn Meadows that Capitol Police officers were being overrun by rioters, and when she did finally catch his ear, he appeared uninterested in the urgent news. Her mere presence stood in contrast to the party she served. When the president was cautioned by his counsel beforehand against using such inflammatory language in his speech, he raged: “I don’t f— care that they have weapons. “It was almost a lack of reaction,” she said. The young woman stood firm against the pressure of a president who’s bullied the nation’s most powerful men into submission, while exposing those who protected him by revealing that Meadows and former Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani both sought presidential pardons related to the Capitol attack. To showcase the good things [Trump] had done for the country.” Take the f— [metal detectors] away.” It was unpatriotic. She was a loyal foot soldier for the GOP, a high achiever who had previously interned for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.). Under oath, she described herself as “a staffer that worked to always represent the administration to the best of my ability.

He'd posted on his bespoke social media site a number of other times about the witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, and about the hearing itself. It was a “Kangaroo ...

To an objective observer, the idea that Hutchinson intentionally would lie under oath — in a hearing sufficiently scripted that she undoubtedly knew what was coming — bears the burden of proof. She has not been shown to have lied under oath, although you might not know it from the MAGA world reaction on Wednesday morning. It raged for months, and the relative novelty of the style of attack — group-bullying on the internet, digging up anything that might look like dirt — meant a lack of ability to respond effectively. But that credibility depends not on what happened but on whether Hutchinson was told those things happened, since she doesn’t claim she was in the vehicle. She was confronting a well-oiled system used both to downplay Trump’s actions and to eviscerate his opponents. But Trump wasn’t in that limousine on Jan. 6; it was a less compartmentalized SUV. What’s more, previous reporting from Politico indicated that the agent Trump allegedly accosted had described to committee investigators a dispute between himself and the president in that vehicle. “GamerGate” refers to one of the first prominent explosions of misogyny-driven hyperscrutiny fueled by the internet. It is necessary first to acknowledge that Hutchinson’s testimony did not provide a full picture of what happened in the Trump White House during the post-election period. In a statement, an official for the agency indicated willingness by those present to provide sworn testimony about what occurred. The ‘body language experts’ that swarmed around Heard spent years applying the same junk science to Amanda Knox, Meghan Markle, and Carole Baskin. The gremlins who targeted Anita Sarkeesian during GamerGate pretended to be offended by the (extremely minor) technical errors in her videos rather than her presence in their boy’s-only treehouse.” Those details about what happened as Trump was leaving the Ellipse after his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, for example, were conveyed to Hutchinson, she said, by a member of Trump’s Secret Service detail. He’d posted on his bespoke social media site a number of other times about the witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, and about the hearing itself.

For two hours, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, laid out a devastating account on Tuesday of former President Donald J. Trump's actions and ...

A person familiar with what took place said that while Mr. Meadows and Mr. Trump were in the small dining room off the Oval Office, Mr. Herschmann walked in and said they needed to issue a statement “immediately,” and went into Mr. Meadows’s office nearby to grab a note card. The note suggested language for Mr. Trump to use to call off the mob storming the Capitol. Given the stakes, it is not surprising that Trump allies in particular are seeking to poke holes in Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony to undermine her credibility. One former colleague, Sarah Matthews, who was a deputy press secretary, stood by Ms. Hutchinson and praised her for her bravery. They said the two men would not dispute that Mr. Trump wanted to be driven to the Capitol as the angry pro-Trump protesters, some of them armed, headed in that direction and Congress was gathered to ratify that he had lost the election and that Joseph R. Biden Jr. would be the next president. On Tuesday, Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming and the vice chairwoman, displayed what she said were two examples of unnamed people associated with Mr. Trump attempting to influence witnesses. Mr. Trump and his advisers have come under scrutiny in previous situations for reportedly trying to influence witnesses. According to Punchbowl News, Ms. Hutchinson was one of the people who received such a warning. Ms. Hutchinson made clear in her public testimony that she did not have direct knowledge of the incident, and it remains unclear what, if anything, the committee did to corroborate it. For months, the committee has suggested that Mr. Trump or those close to him might have attempted to influence potential witnesses. According to Ms. Hutchinson, the answer was: not much. By her account, he responded by urging that security measures be taken down to allow his supporters to fill in the area around the stage.

At age 26, Cassidy Hutchinson has been the Jan. 6 committee's biggest star witness to date, and delivered bombshell testimony about former President Trump's ...

She'd said in the college article that her goal was to pursue a path of "civil significance" and she eagerly applied for the White House opportunity. It was that access -- and the fact that she became Meadows' principal assistant -- that made her an invaluable witness for the committee on Tuesday. "As a first-generation college student, being selected to serve as an intern alongside some of the most intelligent and driven students from across the nation -- many of whom attend top universities -- was an honor and a tremendous growing experience." A graduate of Christopher Newport University, she first entered Trump's White House in mid-2018 as an intern for legislative affairs. Hutchinson said that a member of Trump's detail had relayed the story to her a short time later at the White House. It was un-American," she added. Meanwhile, the U.S. Secret Service has promised to respond to a particularly fiery part of Hutchinson's testimony, which said that Trump was determined to join the mob at the Capitol. In fact, she said, he physically attempted to grab the wheel of his presidential limousine on Jan. 6 when agents on his security detail told him that it was unsafe to go and they were returning to the White House. "Anyone downplaying Cassidy Hutchinson's role or her access in the West Wing either doesn't understand how the Trump White House worked or is attempting to discredit her because they are scared of how damning her testimony is," Matthews said in a tweet on Tuesday. "It was unpatriotic. In her remarks before the panel, Hutchinson said she'd written the statement for Trump -- and that Herschmann had suggested changing it. Borin in New Jersey in 1996, Hutchinson ultimately acquired extraordinary White House access that put her in the orbit of the president of the United States and his top advisers. Hutchinson, 26, has been the committee's biggest star witness to date and she delivered bombshell testimony from inside the Trump White House. Among other things, she told the panel that Trump threw a plate of food against a wall in the White House out of frustration over losing the 2020 election -- and even tried to forcefully steer his armored limousine toward the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when his radical supporters were marching there to disrupt Congress.

Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, released a new statement Wednesday provided exclusively to CNN standing ...

Hutchinson testified that she had been told this story by Tony Ornato, then-White House deputy chief of staff, and that Engel had been there as the story was told. Hutchinson testified for nearly two hours on Tuesday as well as giving recorded depositions in advance of the hearing, where she vividly described her experience at the White House close to Meadows and then-President Donald Trump during the days leading up to and including the Capitol Hill riot. Hutchinson testified she had been told that when Trump was informed by security that he would not be going to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he lunged to the front of his vehicle and tried to turn the wheel with one hand while using his other hand to "lunge" at Robert Engel, the Secret Service agent in charge that day.

Republicans and other sources are rebutting elements of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, handing Donald ...

In a prepared statement, a committee aide said that the panel found her testimony to be “credible.” But anyone who worked in the West Wing knows that she was a critical part of the operation. Hutchinson testified, for example, that Trump knew that some people attending his rally were carrying weapons, but he still urged them to march to the Capitol, where Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s victory. Hutchinson testified that she did not directly witness the alleged altercation and was clear that her knowledge was second-hand. One person close to the Secret Service said that “there are very important pieces of the testimony that are out there that [agency officials] have no issue with. “She was not a low-level aide. At that point, Trump, in a fit of rage, tried to grab the steering wheel of the armored presidential SUV and then reached for the “clavicles” of Engel, she said Ornato told her. Her appearance included other revelations that could potentially be more damaging, posing problems for Trump as he apparently gears up for another presidential campaign. The Jan. 6 committee has continued to insist that they found Hutchinson’s testimony credible and invited those who would dispute her to come forward and give sworn testimony. But parts of Hutchinson’s testimony involving Trump’s car ride back to the White House after his Jan. 6 rally at the Ellipse have been validated by others. Due to security concerns, Trump was told no. “All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.”

The explosive testimony about former President Trump's actions on Jan. 6, 2021, has led to calls from some right-leaning outlets that Trump is unfit to ...

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The former Trump White House aide who spoke to the Jan. 6 committee Tuesday is under fire. Defenders say her critics should testify under oath.

He added in another: “Watching the desperation of Trump world to discredit the brave Cassidy Hutchinson reminds me of…. “Cassidy Hutchinson lied and the @January6thCmte held a special hearing [Tuesday] to broadcast her lies,” Greene said. One statement said “they have reminded me a couple of times that Trump does read transcripts and just to keep that in mind,” while in another statement, a person was told, “He knows you’re loyal, and you’re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.” “Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the most brave and honorable people I know,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) wrote in one tweet. “For those complaining of ‘hearsay,’ I imagine the Jan. 6 committee would welcome any of those involved to deny these allegations under oath.” Punchbowl News reported Wednesday that Hutchinson was a target of alleged witness intimidation from Trump world. “If Cassidy is making this up, they will need to say that. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) retweeted a graphic of the “Beast,” the presidential limousine, which appeared to illustrate how passengers are separated from the driver. Alyssa Farah Griffin, Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary and White House strategic communications director, described Hutchinson as a “friend.” Trump and his allies have seized on media reports of pushback from unnamed Secret Service sources to paint Hutchinson’s sworn testimony as unreliable. “The agents are prepared to say under oath that the incident itself did not occur,” the official told the network. An anonymous Secret Service official told CNN that Ornato denies telling Hutchinson that Trump grabbed the steering wheel or an agent.

The agency says it got no outreach for 10 days before the committee aired testimony about Donald Trump's behavior in the presidential vehicle on Jan. 6.

With respect to the handwritten note’s authorship, a spokesperson for Trump White House attorney Eric Herschmann has disputed part of Hutchinson’s Tuesday testimony. Members of the select committee have said they welcome any more information about the Secret Service altercation that witnesses would provide under oath. “We have and will continue to make any member of the Secret Service available.” “The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” said a spokesperson for Herschmann. “All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.” Select committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) described those four interviews during remarks Tuesday, splicing in footage from them throughout the two-hour public hearing. That agent, Robert Engel, gave testimony at the time that appears to be consistent with Hutchinson’s story but is not known to include the stunning details Hutchinson described.

PolitiFact | Hutchinson had sat for four recorded interviews with the committee, but Tuesday's hearing was the first time she appeared before the committee ...

“She was with Mark Meadows constantly and essentially his right hand and a very close confidante of his, even though she was pretty young,” Matthews said. She was also on a first-name basis with most Republican members of Congress, and was plugged in throughout Republican circles.” She was well liked and well respected. Hutchinson was promoted in 2020 and served as an aide to Meadows. “I attended numerous events hosted by the president, such as signing ceremonies, celebrations and presidential announcements, and frequently watched Marine One depart the South Lawn from my office window,” she told the university newsroom. She also reportedly reached out directly via email and phone to Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs about a trip Meadows took to Georgia to attend an election audit. Hutchinson testified that, at some meetings, White House attorneys would say they could look at the idea of alternate electors. “She was known as an incredibly hard and loyal worker — arriving as early as 6 am and often staying until after midnight. She said she overheard Trump say that those on the outside with weapons were “not here to hurt me.” Hutchinson was in contact with Meadows “pretty much throughout every day consistently,” she testified. “We spent a lot of time on the Hill,” Hutchinson said of her role. “We did a lot of presidential travel engagements.