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.

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.

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.'"

Ms Hutchinson, a former White House aide, provided first-hand knowledge of what she saw and heard in the run-up to the US capitol riots at a surprise hearing on ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. They can march to the Capitol from here,” she recalled Mr Trump as saying. “People will say, you know, oh there is nothing heroic about that – you worked in the Trump administration. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice. “And look, Cassidy, her life will be forever changed. By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use, Cookie policy and Privacy notice.

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.'"

Donald Trump has been rage posting during the latest revelations from the January 6 hearings. The former president threw a tantrum on Truth Social after ...

Let the people in, take the f-ing mags away,” she said. Take me up to the Capitol now.” The comments, however, are not true.

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.”

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.

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.

Supporters of the former President Donald Trump have compared his ex-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' top aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, to Amber Heard.

Someone else wrote: “Amber Heard would be proud of Cassidy Hutchinson.” Throughout the trial, Heard faced accusations against the credibility of her testimony and now Hutchinson is receiving the same treatment from Trump fans as “Amber Heard 2.0” began trending on Twitter. Author Tim Young tweeted: “Cassidy Hutchinson makes Amber Heard's testimony seem compelling and true.”

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.