Cassidy Hutchinson

Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday will appear before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in a last-minute session ...

See All See All We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. See all Video Her testimony has even offered details on Trump’s reactions the day of the riot. And Hutchinson also told investigators that White House lawyers had advised against the Trump campaign’s alternate elector scheme.

The former executive assistant to Mark Meadows will be the first ex-Trump White House employee to testify in person.

Hutchinson’s former boss, Meadows, first flirted with cooperating with the committee then refused to do so. The committee referred him to the Department of Justice (DoJ), for criminal contempt of Congress. The DoJ declined to pursue charges. The House January 6 hearings into the attack on the Capitol may not yet have found their John Dean – the White House counsel who turned on President Richard Nixon during Watergate – but in Cassidy Hutchinson they have turned up a surprisingly potent witness.

NPR has confirmed that Cassidy Hutchinson is expected to be the witness for today's Jan. 6 hearing.

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Hutchinson's closed-door testimony has already been cited as the source of multiple revelations uncovered by the select committee's probe.

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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.

A top aide to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, Ms. Hutchinson was present at key moments as Trump and his allies discussed overturning the 2020 ...

Before that, she had been an aide working in Congress. She has described Mr. Meadows burning documents in a fireplace in his office. Ms. Hutchinson can fill in key pieces of the story. Until recently, she had been represented by a former deputy White House counsel who was recommended to her by two aides to Mr. Trump. She then switched lawyers, to Jody Hunt, and her discussions with the committee about possibly testifying in public became more productive, according to a person briefed on the discussions who insisted on anonymity to discuss them. She has testified about Mr. Trump’s desire to join his supporters leaving what was billed as a “protest” at the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6 to travel to the Capitol. Ms. Hutchinson, 25, has informed the committee that Mr. Meadows told colleagues that Mr. Trump reacted approvingly to chants of “Hang Mike Pence” that some of the rioters bellowed.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump's White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that ...

The president, it turned out, had thrown his lunch across the wall in disgust over the article and she was urged to steer clear of him, she said. Millions of Americans still incorrectly believe Trump won, according to polls, while a Tuesday night primary in Colorado's secretary of state race is among many state and local elections featuring candidates who believe the 2020 election was not fairly decided. Dozens of cases were brought before the U.S. courts and rejected. The 25-year-old has already provided a trove of information to congressional investigators and has sat for multiple interviews behind closed doors. In one instance, Hutchinson described seeing Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Republican Rep. Scott Perry, Politico reported in May. She said she wasn't sure what he would have done at the Capitol as a violent mob of his supporters was breaking in. She described Meadows as unconcerned as security officials told him that people at Trump's rally had weapons — including people wearing armour and carrying automatic weapons. They can march to the Capitol from here.'" Hutchinson, who was an aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said she was told that by Meadows' deputy. Giuliani told her it was going to be "'a great day'" and "'we're going to the Capitol,'" shr recallled. "'They're not here to hurt me. Hutchinson testified that she was told that when Trump got into the limo after his speech, he was told they would not be going to the Capitol.

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

With the overturning of Roe v. If you're a Canadian who has had an abortion, CTVNews.ca wants to hear from you. BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING BREAKING 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. BREAKING She also testified that Meadows was directly warned prior to the insurrection of the possible violence. BREAKING 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. Meadows made Hutchinson his legislative aide, and she would accompany Meadows to Capitol Hill for his most serious meetings.

Cassidy Hutchinson, former right hand to Trump's White House chief of staff, gave investigators significant new details about the Capitol siege.

She also told the committee she’d heard of Trump’s Jan. 6 movements on a Secret Service radio channel that broadcast his location to West Wing aides. Hutchinson was present, she told the committee, when Cipollone told Meadows and Giuliani that a Trump-backed plan to appoint alternate presidential electors was legally unsound. She was there when Meadows convened members of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus to strategize about challenging the election results on Jan. 6, 2021. Tuesday’s hearing is the panel’s sixth as it presents its findings to the public. Cassidy Hutchinson also testified to the Jan. 6 select panel that Trump intended to travel with his supporters at the rally to the Capitol, a progression that quickly became a violent mob. The House Freedom Caucus founding member has refused to testify, though he briefly negotiated with the select committee and provided thousands of text messages he received from members of Congress and others related to the 2020 election. “I know that he was on several calls during the rally. She said then-Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone warned against letting Trump travel to the Capitol that day in stark terms: If Trump did so, his White House counsel said, “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable,” from obstruction to fraud. The committee interspersed her live testimony with clips of four video depositions Hutchinson gave between February and earlier this month. Her testimony, hastily announced by the committee the previous day, brought America inside the West Wing as Trump, Meadows, and their allies tried to reverse Joe Biden’s victory. Hutchinson’s testimony underscores Meadows’ central role in nearly every facet of Trump’s effort to stay in power. Her knowledge, informed by being present in nearly every meeting involving Meadows during the post-election period, have quickly propelled Hutchinson into a prominent role for Capitol riot investigators.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Just two years out of college, Cassidy Hutchinson watched as a valet mopped up the president...

The events in her testimony — explained in new and vivid detail for the first time publicly — are of potentially vital interest to both the committee and the Justice Department. WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. The 25-year-old Hutchinson, who was an aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, made several shocking revelations about Trump and Meadows in nationally televised testimony before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

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

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. If you're a Canadian who has had an abortion, CTVNews.ca wants to hear from you. 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. With the overturning of Roe v. She also testified that Meadows was directly warned prior to the insurrection of the possible violence. Wade, a number of states south of the border have stopped performing abortions. Meadows made Hutchinson his legislative aide, and she would accompany Meadows to Capitol Hill for his most serious meetings. The top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who is testifying before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot was a young, fast-rising star in the Trump administration. Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump's White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that people rallying on the mall that morning had weapons but he told officials to 'let my people in' and march to the Capitol. Prior to her confirmation of speaking in front of the committee, CNN previously reported that Hutchinson replaced her lawyer that had close ties to Trump in preparation for her testimony. The top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows who is testifying before the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot was a young, fast-rising star in the Trump administration. Cassidy Hutchinson was a staff assistant at the Office of Legislative Affairs before she was quickly promoted to special assistant to then-President Donald Trump and adviser to Meadows, before becoming his executive assistant until the end of the Trump administration.

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.

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is seen in a video of her interview with the House select committee ...

She has also appeared in recorded testimony that former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, several of his associates and Meadows attended a meeting where they discussed having alternate electors in key swing states where Trump lost. During last week's committee hearings, Perry emerged as a key figure in former President Donald Trump's attempts to convince followers of a variety of lies about the soundness of the 2020 election. Hutchinson also testified she had heard that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia had requested a pardon from the White House counsel's office. Hutchinson previously testified that Meadows had been warned of "intel reports saying that there could potentially be violence on the 6th." To watch a livestream of the hearing starting at 1 p.m., click here. Today Hutchinson, who had been an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, will appear as the panel's surprise live witness for an unscheduled hearing, NPR has confirmed.

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.'"

Renato Mariotti is the Legal Affairs Columnist for POLITICO Magazine. He is a former federal prosecutor and host of the “On Topic” podcast. Anyone who has paid ...

Prosecutors will still need to put together a case that shows that Trump was involved in a conspiracy or scheme that obstructed the Jan. 6 certification proceeding. Trump’s failed attempt to go to the Capitol, in itself, would not be a criminal offense. But episodes like trying to wrest the steering wheel show that Trump wanted to be at the Capitol and would have been there if he hadn’t been kept from doing so. This is precisely the sort of “smoking gun” evidence needed to prove that the person speaking meant to incite imminent violence. They’re not here to hurt me” and that they would be going to the Capitol later. Courts have routinely set this bar very high in the context of political speech because the First Amendment broadly protects speech of that type.

If other Trump aides had even half her courage, the country would be in a better place.

But Meadows, still on his couch, said Trump “doesn’t want to do anything” to stop the violence. They can march to the Capitol from here.” But Trump wanted them in his rally, she testified, and said “something to the effect of, ‘You know, I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons. She told of walking into the Oval Office dining room after Trump heard that Attorney General Bill Barr said he hadn’t seen substantial fraud in the 2020 election: “I first noticed there was ketchup, dripping down the wall, and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor. She sat ramrod straight in the witness chair, forearms on the table. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, ‘Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.

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 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.”

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally near the White House on January 6, 2021. Eric Lee / Bloomberg / Getty. June 29, 2022. Share.

Some went silent in the face of his indecency and lawlessness; many others gleefully promulgated his lies and conspiracy theories. But he had a lot of help along the way. According to Hutchinson, the president of the United States knew that his supporters attending the January 6 rally near the White House were armed—and he still wanted security removed from the area and the crowd to march to the Capitol. “I overheard the president say something to the effect of ‘I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons. Hutchinson also said she heard a conversation between White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Meadows: “I remember Pat saying something to the effect of ‘Mark, we need to do something more. This new account of what Trump did leading up to, on, and after January 6 was shocking, yet not surprising. Not long after that, Trump told the crowd that stormed the Capitol, “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

Cassidy Hutchinson se lève de son siège dans une salle d'audience. Cassidy Hutchinson, qui était une assistante de Mark Meadows, ex-chef de cabinet de Donald ...

Selon l'Associated Press, une source a nié que M. Meadows ait tenté d'obtenir un pardon. Et si vous ne vous battez pas comme des diables, vous n'aurez plus de pays! Le conseiller a répliqué : Ce dernier, qui avait refusé de suivre l'ordre du président, n'a pas rectifié les faits rapportés par M. Ornato, laissant croire à leur authenticité. Le valet, qui remplaçait la nappe de la table à manger, lui a confié que le président était Je n'en ai rien à foutre [I don't fucking care] s'ils ont des armes. Mme Hutchinson raconte que le président républicain a été pris d’une terrible colère dans la salle à manger de la Maison-Blanche, si bien qu’il aurait lancé avec fracas son assiette sur un des murs de la pièce. Mme Hutchinson a aussi relaté que l'avocat de la Maison-Blanche Pat Cipollone voulait à tout prix éviter que le président Trump se dirige vers le Capitole. Or, cette version a été contredite. Ils ne sont pas ici pour me faire mal, a déclaré le président avant de s'adresser à la foule, selon Mme Hutchinson. M. Trump voulait que la sécurité soit assouplie pour que les gens puissent s'approcher de sa tribune, même s'ils étaient armés. Nous allons nous battre comme des diables. L'histoire a été racontée à Mme Hutchinson par M. Ornato à la Maison-Blanche, en présence du responsable de la sécurité du président, Robert Engel, qui avait été pris à partie.

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.

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.