Cassidy Hutchinson

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.'"

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“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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Following Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the House Select Committee on Tuesday, Amber Heard 2.0 has started trending on Twitter and has been mentioned in ...

I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn't want her to go, or be a member of the team. "The absolute horror of this scene. Heard did not name Depp in the article, entitled, "I spoke up against sexual violence—and faced our culture's wrath.

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.

This afternoon a 26-year-old former assistant showed more courage and integrity than an entire administration full of grown-ass adults who were purportedly ...

That she was not stuck on a conveyor belt. That she had responsibilities to her country. This is why everyone I interviewed for my book was so filled with hatred for the Never Trumpers, the media, and the liberals in their life. That the enemy was not the people telling the truth about her boss. She realized that she could write a different story for herself. Expressed total lack of concern for the safety of others, as long as he felt he was secure.

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.”

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 is from Pennington, New Jersey. She attended Christopher Newport University, where she has said in the past she was a first-generation college ...