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☆ Cassidy Hutchinson said she was tempted to run away moments before her bombshell testimony at the Jan. 6 hearing
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, testified before the January 6 committee. Hutchinson said was getting cold feet moments before she gave her bombshell testimony. Hutchinson was a top aide in Trump's orbit who testified before a bipartisan panel of Congressmembers in June of 2022. In her testimony, she revealed how Trump had a temperament problem, throwing dishes and flipping tablecloths in the White House dining room when he got angry. The former aide recently published her memoir, "Enough," recounting her experiences in the White House.

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☆ Cassidy Hutchinson says she once encountered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell exploring the White House unescorted
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cassidy Hutchinson said she once ran into Mike Lindell walking around the White House unescorted. She says Lindell said: "We can still win," referencing an effort to overturn Biden's 2020 victory. Hutchinson wrote about the interaction in her forthcoming book. Lindell was a fixture in the conservative push to overthrow now-President Joe Biden's electoral win immediately after the election that November. AdvertisementAdvertisementThat same day, Lindell was captured on the grounds of the White House by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford, where the executive held a set of notes detailing his agenda during a meeting with Trump.

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☆ Cassidy Hutchinson says Mark Meadows burned so many documents before leaving the White House that the then-chief of staff's wife complained about dry-cleaning bills to remove the 'bonfire' smell: repo
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hutchinson in her new book and during a New York Times interview described a White House steeped in paranoia. Hutchinson alleged that Meadows burned files in his fireplace, which ran up his dry-cleaning costs. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. Giuliani and Eastman were two of the most vocal backers of former President Donald Trump's debunked claims regarding the 2020 election. In the memoir, Hutchinson wrote of how she felt "a creeping sense of dread that something really horrible [was] going to happen" on January 6.

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☆ Insider Today: Side hustles' turning point
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A new study from Morgan Stanely makes the case that generative AI will enable people to work multiple jobs, writes Insider's Alistair Barr. In the US alone, multi-earning has increased 11% over the past year, largely thanks to the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. New research from EY found that nearly 40% of Gen Zers had a side hustle to earn extra money. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact bosses don't seem to care if their employees are working multiple jobs, albeit with one caveat. To be sure, executives' acceptance of employees working multiple jobs might be short-lived.

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☆ Ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson alleges Rudy Giuliani groped her on the day of the Capitol riot while another Trump lawyer watched
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Sonam Sheth | John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ex-Trump WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims that Giuliani groped her on the day of the Capitol riot. She said another former Trump lawyer, John Eastman, witnessed the incident and gave her a "leering grin." In the memoir, Hutchinson wrote of how she felt "a creeping sense of dread that something really horrible [was] going to happen" on January 6. AdvertisementAdvertisement"I find Rudy in the back of the tent with, among others, John Eastman," she wrote, according to The Guardian. "Mayor Rudy Giuliani will pursue all appropriate legal action against this disgusting lie."

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☆ Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson says Rudy Giuliani groped her before Jan. 6 Capitol riot
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rudolph Giuliani speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2020. Kevin Lemarque | ReutersFormer White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in a new book says ex-President Donald Trump's then-lawyer Rudy Giuliani groped her on Jan. 6, 2021, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Hutchinson writes that Giuliani — who is 52 years older than her — put his hand "under my blazer, then my skirt" on that day, according to the report. I lower my eyes and watch his free hand reach for the hem of my blazer," Hutchinson writes. "I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy's grip," Hutchinson writes.

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☆ Former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims Rudy Giuliani groped her on day of attack on Capitol
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide, claims in a new book that Rudy Giuliani groped her backstage at the rally that preceded the former president’s supporters’ insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Rudy Giuliani speaks from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021. Waving a stack of documents, he moves towards me, like a wolf closing in on its prey,” Hutchinson writes. I lower my eyes and watch his free hand reach for the hem of my blazer,” Hutchinson writes. Giuliani’s legal issuesHutchinson’s claims come as Giuliani faces a series of legal issues, including millions of dollars in mounting legal bills.

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☆ Trump says he doesn't worry about going to jail: 'I don't even think about it'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Jonathan Allen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"I don't even think about it," Trump, who has been indicted four times this year, said when asked if he worries about prison at night. NBC News has also extended an invitation to President Joe Biden to sit down with Welker for an interview. "First of all, I had very little to do with Jan. 6," Trump said. The officer didn't say that "because of riots," Trump said, alluding to the threat to a president. Welker asked Trump to confirm he was disputing Hutchinson's account.

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☆ Opinion | Mark Meadows Is Everywhere and Nowhere
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Katherine Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The image of Mr. Meadows somewhere surreal and incorrect, and only partially visible, is a fitting one. And in the audio where Mr. Trump jokes about classified documents and ruffles papers around, he’s reportedly talking to Mr. Meadows’s ghost writer. Then, later in the day, he contradicted his remark to say that Mr. Trump was “doing very well.”Why did he do any of this? At the time, the writer Tim Alberta noted various theories: Was Mr. Trump actually in bad shape inside the hospital, and Mr. Meadows thought people should know? Was Mr. Meadows overwhelmed?

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☆ Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff, will face his first post-2020 election-related indictment in Georgia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Meadows has been indicted for helping to pressure Georgia to declare Trump the winner. Trump's final chief of staff had avoided serious legal repercussions until Monday. This now means Meadows may soon join Nixon hatchet man HR "Bob" Haldeman in infamy. According to the indictment, Meadows, like each one of his fellow co-defendants, is facing a violation of Georgia's RICO law. The Justice Department previously decided not to pursue contempt charges against Meadows after he stopped cooperating with the House January 6 committee.

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☆ Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are far worse than Nixon hatchet man HR Haldeman's, says expert on White House chiefs of staff
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are worse than Watergate figure HR "Bob Haldeman," an expert says. Chris Whipple, an expert on White House chiefs of staff, said it was entirely predictable how Meadows got indicted. Meadows, Whipple added, "may be on the same track" as Nixon White House chief of staff HR "Bob" Haldeman to become the second former White House chief of staff to serve prison time. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows listens as President Donald Trump speaks to the press outside the White House on October 30, 2020. "I think being Donald Trump's White House chief of staff was Mission Impossible," Whipple said.

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☆ Five or six Secret Service agents have testified before Jan. 6 grand jury, sources say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Julia Ainsley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It is not known what the agents' proximity to Trump was on Jan. 6 or what information they may have provided to the grand jury. Sources told NBC News that about 24 Secret Service agents appeared before the grand jury that considered that case in Washington before the case moved to Florida. A spokeswoman for the Secret Service declined to comment. Ornato took a leave of absence from the Secret Service to serve as deputy chief of staff for Trump beginning in 2019 and then returned to the Secret Service when Trump left office. Both Engel and Ornato have since left the Secret Service and it is not known whether they have testified before the grand jury.

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☆ Mike Pence will testify before a grand jury about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Oma Seddiq | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Pence will not fight a court ruling ordering him to testify before a grand jury about Trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A federal judge ruled last month that Pence must testify about conversations he had with Trump leading up to January 6, 2021. Trump pressured Pence, both publicly and privately, to assist in his efforts to overturn Biden's 2020 election victory. Trump supporters could be heard chanting that they wanted to "hang Mike Pence" during the Capitol riot, according to video footage. They're literally calling for the vice president to be effing hung,'" Hutchinson testified.

☆ The top investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee said the Justice Department could charge these 4 Trump allies
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Sarah Al-Arshani | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The top investigator for the House Jan. 6 committee spoke to The New York Times in a story out Sunday. Heaphy said the DOJ's decision on who to charge will depend on them going beyond what the House committee was able to get. Giuliani, Meadows, Eastman, and ClarkJohn Eastman appeared alongside Rudy Giuliani at a pro-Trump rally on January 6. He and other Trump allies spread the false claims of election fraud across the the country in the lead-up to the insurrection. Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Meadows, testified that he was warned about potential violence on January 6 in advance.

☆ Former Trump Chief of Staff Meadows subpoenaed in Capitol attack probe -CNN
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows greets supporters in front of senior aide Cassidy Hutchinson during a presidential campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Newtown, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner/File PhotoFeb 15 (Reuters) - Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to ex-U.S. President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed as part of a probe by Special Counsel Jack Smith regarding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, CNN reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the matter. Smith's office wants documents and testimony related to Jan. 6, and Meadows received the subpoena in January, the report added. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith in November last year to take over two investigations involving Trump, who is running for president in 2024. Reporting by Costas Pitas in Los Angeles; Editing by Sandra Maler and Leslie AdlerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Donald Trump 2024, Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6: 12 Republicans Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Patrick Healy | Adrian J. Rivera | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Looking for answers, Times Opinion decided to hold an unusual focus group: We invited back several Republican voters who spoke in our first focus group a year ago. Back then, they discussed the Jan. 6 attack, democracy and President Donald Trump; this time around, we read some of their old comments back to them and talked about whether the committee’s work had affected their opinions about Jan. 6 and Mr. Trump. But these 12 Republicans, at least, were emphatic and unanimous: None of the hearings or testimonies changed how they thought about Jan. 6. Indeed, the committee’s intense focus on Mr. Trump left some of them feeling sympathetic for him, and 10 of the 12 said they were glad he was running for president again. Still, these Republicans had frustrations with Mr. Trump and even more with the G.O.P., as well as with House Republicans after their struggle to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

☆ It's been two years since rioters stormed the Capitol. Here's 5 things we've learned about the insurrection in the past year
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

In a speech given near the White House on January 6, Trump said he'd join protestors and march with them to the Capitol, though his march never occurred. "White House staff knew it, and so did every other Republican and Democratic leader in Washington." "After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation — a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call and, instead, alerted their lawyer to the call," Cheney said. Hutchinson also said that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asked for a pardon, along with Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani.

☆ North Carolina won't charge Trump's ex-staff Meadows with voter fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. state of North Carolina will not charge former Republican President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows with voter fraud, the state's Justice Department said on Friday. In April, North Carolina removed Meadows from the voter roll after state authorities said they were investigating his voter registration. Meadows has previously echoed Trump's false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. "After a thorough review, my office has concluded that there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges against either of them (Meadows and his wife) in this matter," North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said in a statement. In North Carolina, voters must live in the county where they are registering and have resided there for at least 30 days prior to the election date, according to the state elections board website.

☆ White House aides pitched having Trump 'peacefully protest' in a glass box near the Capitol on January 6: testimony
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some White House aides wanted President Donald Trump to "peacefully protest" outside of the Capitol in a glass box on January 6. Trump ultimately didn't join the crowd as they swarmed the Capitol building on January 6. Tony Ornato, a former Secret Service agent and White House aide, testified in a deposition in late November that two White House aides— Bobby Peede and Max Miller — asked him if the president could join supporters and protest Congress counting of the electoral votes. When Ornato asked what Trump would even do outside of the Capitol, the aides suggested placing Trump in a secure glass box on a stage. But despite his wish to go to the Capitol that day, his team shot down the idea and brought him back to the White House.

☆ Factbox: Six highlights from testimony released by the Jan. 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Since the release of its report last week, the committee has released testimony transcripts highlighting other developments in Trump's White House, before and after the riot. "The president floated the idea and Cipollone said no," McEntee told the committee, referring to Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel. He said something to the effect of, God, no," Hutchinson told the committee, referring to the memo. Originals of all White House documents must be kept for the archives, but copies can be burned. She suspected her former lawyer of leaking her testimony to the press, and telling other Trump-adjacent figures about what she told the committee.

☆ Former WH aide says Trump allies helped deliver a ‘dolly of boxes’ full of what may have been classified intelligence documents to the Situation Room in the final days of Trump’s presidency
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A former WH aide detailed the flow of intelligence documents to the Situation Room during Trump's last days. In a new transcript, she described how Trump allies including Meadows sought boxes of documents from congress. "On December 31st — or December 30th — we got all the documents, Hutchinson told the committee in a May 17, 2022 interview. "And why would they need to bring them to the White House to look into them?" "I don't know," she answered, maintaining that she never took part in the meetings between the White House officials and Republican allies, despite her top security clearance.

☆ Factbox: Four highlights from testimony released by the Jan. 6 committee
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Since the release of its report last week, the committee has made public transcripts of testimony from various witnesses. BLANKET PARDONSTrump wanted to issue blanket pardons for everyone who participated in the riot, according to testimony from John McEntee, former head of personnel at the White House. "The President floated the idea and Cipollone said no," McEntee told the committee, referring to Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel. Originals of all White House documents must be kept for the archives, but copies can be burned. She suspected her former lawyer of leaking her testimony to the press, and telling other Trump-adjacent figures about what she told the committee.

☆ Former Trump aide said he and other staffers couldn't imagine Trump marching to the Capitol on January 6 because he'd 'never seen the man walk across a golf course without a golf cart'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Some White House staffers heard that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6 and laughed it off. Judd Deere told the committee he hadn't seen Trump "walk across a golf course without a golf cart." "I was 100 percent confident that we were not doing an additional movement," Deere told investigators. Deere's testimony suggests that many White House officials were unaware of Trump's plan. "I have heard rumor of that," Deere told investigators, saying he couldn't recall who he had heard it from.

☆ 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.

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