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Washington CNN —In her new book “Enough,” former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson paints the closing days of the Trump White House as even more chaotic and lawless than she previously disclosed in her shocking televised testimony last summer. “We killed Herman Cain,” Meadows told Hutchinson and asked for his wife’s phone number. Unlike White House communications director Alyssa Farah, who resigned on December 3, 2020, or deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews, who left on January 6, 2021, Hutchinson remained. In the summer of 2017, Trump’s first year in office, Hutchinson was an intern in Sen. Ted Cruz’s office. It turns out, Hutchinson writes, that she coordinated with Farah, who is now a CNN political commentator, telling her everything she knew.

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☆ Cassidy Hutchinson said her 'QAnon fans' aunt and uncle considered refinancing their home to help pay her legal bills so she could stay away from 'Trump world'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified she was "scared" about getting a lawyer from Trump world. Hutchinson told the January 6 committee she contacted family she didn't even speak to to get help. Hutchinson described the situation in testimony she gave on September 14, a transcript of which was released by the committee on Thursday. In her testimony, Hutchinson said Passantino pressured her to withhold information from the committee, and that others connected to Trump dangled the possibility of a job over her. "I believed Ms. Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her."

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson Said Trump Allies Urged Her to Limit Jan. 6 Testimony
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Scott Patterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The Jan. 6 select committee released a transcript of oral testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson pointing to efforts by lawyers and others in former President Donald Trump’s orbit to urge her to protect Mr. Trump in her testimony before the committee. Ms. Hutchinson, an aide to Mr. Trump’s last White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows , had dismissed her first lawyer, Stefan Passantino, by the time she provided some of the most dramatic live testimony before the committee in June, when she said she was told that Mr. Trump wanted to be driven to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and wrestled for the steering wheel with the Secret Service when his order was refused.

Ali Alexander said he believed White House wanted him to lead rallygoers to Capitol "Stop The Steal" organizer Ali Alexander believed the White House wanted him to lead attendees of Trump's Jan. 6 rally to the Capitol, the report said. Alex Jones, who has claimed the White House told him to lead the march, texted Wren at 12:27 p.m. Finally one of the staffers told Trump they thought he should focus on his speech. Trump told Jan. 6 demonstrators at the Capitol in a Twitter video that he loved them but that they should go home. The information was expected to be available as soon as Thursday — the day the House Jan. 6 committee is set to issue its final report on the riot.

☆ Trump Allies Urged Her to Limit Testimony, Cassidy Hutchinson Told Jan. 6 Committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Scott Patterson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson secretly back-channeled with the Jan. 6 committee before blindsiding her Trump-aligned lawyer in a bombshell deposition
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Hutchinson told the panel that her Trump-aligned lawyer advised her to mislead lawmakers. ""Look, we want to get you in, get you out," Hutchinson said Passantino told her before the appearance. Reach out to them," Hutchinson told the panel, paraphrasing what Passantino told her of a job offer connected to former top Trump aide Jason Miller. Hutchinson said she told Farah, who was also a former House aide, to back channel with the January 6 committee. Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson arrives for her public testimony in front of the January 6 committee.

☆ Capitol riot panel's final report sets out case to try Trump
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

REUTERS/Evelyn HocksteinWASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former U.S. President Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the transcripts of a number of its interviews and witness testimonies earlier on Thursday and on Wednesday. "Rather than honor his constitutional obligation to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed,' President Trump instead plotted to overturn the election outcome," the House panel had said earlier in a 160-page summary of its report. In comments posted on his Truth Social network after the final report's release, Trump called it "highly partisan" and a "witch hunt". The 2020 election results were being certified by Pence and lawmakers when the Capitol was attacked after weeks of false claims by Trump that he had won that election.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson knew she was going to be 'nuked' for turning on Trump. She did it anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Seitz-Wald-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alex Seitz-Wald | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

“I was scared,” she told committee investigators last September in sworn testimony. “I almost felt like at points Donald Trump was looking over my shoulder.”“I was scared. “I want to make this clear to you: Stefan never told me to lie," she told the committee. Her Trumpworld lawyer, Passantino, was not happy, she said, and began frantically calling his colleagues to do damage control. “I’m about to be f------ nuked,” she said she told a committee staffer as she left that third meeting.

It could be worse, the president could have tried to kill’ — he didn’t say kill — ‘the president could have tried to strangle you on Jan. 6,’” Hutchinson said. Hutchinson recalled how during a drive to New Jersey she began wondering whether any aide in the Richard Nixon administration had held a position similar to her own during the Watergate scandal. In remarks, she thanked the Jan. 6 Committee for its work ahead of the final report's release. Hutchinson, who delivered bombshell testimony to the Jan. 6 committee this summer, had previously been represented by Stefan Passantino, who had also worked as a lawyer in the Trump White House. Share this -Link copiedCommittee releases Cassidy Hutchinson transcripts The committee released more transcripts on Thursday, making public the closed-door interviews with White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

☆ Lawyer urged White House aide to 'downplay' Jan. 6 knowledge -testimony
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 22 (Reuters) - A former lawyer for ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told her to “downplay” her knowledge of events leading to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, telling her “the less you remember, the better,” according to a transcript of her testimony released on Thursday. “The less the committee thinks you know, the better,” Hutchinson recalled Passantino telling her, the transcript released by the committee showed. She is now represented by law firm Alston & Bird. Passantino’s biography has been removed from the website of Washington, D.C., law firm Michael Best & Friedrich, where he led the firm’s political law practice. Passantino told CNN he was on leave from the firm “given the distraction of this matter,” but remains a partner at the law firm Elections LLC.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson says she initially lied to the January 6 committee about Trump allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of his SUV and lunging at a Secret Service agent
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hutchinson said she initially told the committee she had not heard of Trump lunging at a Secret Service member. But soon after her deposition, she said she told her attorney, "I lied, I lied, I lied." I just lied," Hutchinson said she told Passantino. "I lied, I lied, I lied." In a later deposition, Hutchinson told the committee she continued to be wracked with guilt after not being entirely truthful to the committee in her first deposition.

☆ Cassidy Hutchinson Googled "Watergate" to help decide whether to cooperate with January 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The committee released a 138-page interview with Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide in the Trump White House. According to Hutchinson's testimony, released by the committee this morning, Passantino had pushed Hutchinson to give the committee as little information as possible. Hutchinson felt guilty that she wasn't giving the committee the whole truth. "So then I'm like, 'Oh shit," the 26 year-old Hutchinson told the committee. "The emphasis he placed on the moral questions that he was asking himself resonated with me," Hutchinson told the committee.

☆ Jan. 6 committee says a Trump-connected lawyer advised Cassidy Hutchinson to mislead the committee on what she knew, CNN reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The January 6 committee claimed a witness had been advised to alter their testimony, CNN reported. The attorney denied the allegations to Insider, saying he represented Hutchinson "honorably." Two sources told CNN that Hutchinson had relayed the incident to the Department of Justice. Sources told CNN that Trump's Save America PAC paid for Passantino to represent Hutchinson through Passantino's law firm Elections LLC. Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, the law firm that listed Passantino as a partner, told CNN it was not involved in the situation.

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