Cassidy Hutchinson

2022 - 12 - 22

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Cassidy Hutchinson Told Jan. 6 Panel That Lawyer Tried to ... (The New York Times)

Cassidy Hutchinson recounted to the House select committee how a lawyer with ties to former President Donald J. Trump said to her that she should “focus on ...

Hutchinson said, Mr. Mr. “Mr. Passantino in a hallway that she felt as though she had lied to the committee by avoiding talking about the incident. In a statement, Mr. “She told Mr. Hutchinson also said Mr. “Mark wants you to 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,” she quoted Mr. Meadows described Mr. Another time, Mr. Hutchinson told the committee that she had been told by several allies of Mr. Trump said to her that she should “focus on protecting the president.”

'He knows he lost': Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump ... (CNN)

Shortly after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told his aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, that President ...

But “Ornato professed that he did not recall either communication, and that he had no knowledge at all about the president’s anger.” “He did request her to do briefings on it as well, but we did not.” I have no reason to believe that he was referencing any other incident.” In the April 16 call, Hutchinson described a phone conversation to committee investigators where Ornato made a comment like “it could be worse. I have no doubts in how I’ve relayed that story privately and publicly” Hutchinson said, according to the transcript, which was released Thursday. “I have no doubts in the conversation that I had with Mr.

Cassidy Hutchinson Says She Was Urged Not to Reveal Trump ... (Bloomberg)

The White House aide who testified that Donald Trump had an angry outburst at his security detail on Jan. 6, 2021 was urged in advance not to bring up the ...

Former White House aide says she was pressured by Trump allies ... (CBC.ca)

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 ...

She said she had been told that Trump had actually tried to lunge at the agent driving the SUV that took him back to the White House on Jan. By April, though, Hutchinson said she had resolved to break from the constraints of "Trump world." During her first interview, she said, the committee asked Hutchinson repeatedly whether she knew anything about a kerfuffle inside the presidential SUV known as the "Beast." 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. You know, he knows that we're all on the same team and we're all a family." As Hutchinson prepared for her first interview with the committee later that month, she said Passantino advised her to "keep your answers short, sweet, and simple, seven words or less. All the while, Hutchinson told the committee, other Trump advisers appeared to be taking a keen interest in her cooperation, as well as her financial situation and job status. "In my mind this whole time I felt this moral struggle," she said, according to the transcripts. She said she was contacted in February by Stefan Passantino, a former White House ethics counsel, who told her he would be her lawyer. Like other aides whose proximity to Trump entangled them in investigations, Hutchinson scrambled to find a lawyer after receiving a subpoena from the committee last year. She described his directive that magnetometers be removed from a rally of his supporters that day and detailed his angry — and ultimately rebuffed — demands to be taken by the Secret Service to the Capitol to join the crowd trying to disrupt the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden's election as president. Like, you're never going to get a bill for this, so if that's what you're worried about."

Cassidy Hutchinson says former Trump ethics lawyer told her to ... (Mother Jones)

Now he's taken a leave of absence from his law firm, in a swirl of controversy over ethics violations. According to her deposition, attorney Stefan Passantino, ...

What might be most striking about Hutchinson’s account is that she appears to be one of many former Trump aides relying on support from the former president’s coffers, and on lawyers who may place Trump’s interest above their clients’. Hutchinson described an elaborate infrastructure of Trump loyalists who helped her seek jobs—as long as she was considered a loyal Trump team member. Hutchinson, in her mid-twenties and out of work, said attorneys she contacted after the committee subpoenaed her sought up-front retainers of $125,000 to $150,000. She said she unsuccessfully sought financial help from her estranged father and her uncle and aunt (who she says are QAnon adherents), and initially resisted seeking help from “Trump world” because she knew the price was supporting Trump’s interests. But all those job offers dried up once word leaked that Hutchinson proved to be forthcoming with the panel. Cassidy said that during her first two interviews, with Passantino on hand, “I almost felt like I had Trump looking over my shoulder. According to her deposition, attorney Stefan Passantino, who had previously worked as a White House attorney for Trump, told Hutchinson, who had been subpoenaed by the panel, to “downplay” her knowledge of the events leading to January 6 in her testimony and to also claim she could not recall other important details. Passantino offered to help her find work in what he referred to as “Trump world,” while making it clear he was considering the interests of the former president ahead of her own, she testified. She described clearly the predicament of many low or mid-level White House aides caught in investigations into Trump dating to the start of his administration. Those rules require lawyers from taking third-party payments that interfere with their “independent professional judgment,” and mandate that the attorneys obtain “informed consent from the client” for such arrangements. If Hutchinson is telling the truth that Passantino didn’t tell her who was paying him, she could not consent, noted Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. She also said he shared details about her testimony with other lawyers working for Trump clients against her wishes.

Cassidy Hutchinson says she initially lied to the January 6 ... (Yahoo News Canada)

Hutchinson said she "lied" at the direction of her attorney Stefan Passantino, who she said instructed her to mislead the committee.