She recalled the secrecy of her boss, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, who allegedly burned paperwork after a meeting with Rep. She revealed learning about how Trump had lunged at the neck of his own Secret Service agent when his request to be ferried to the Capitol after the speech at the Ellipse was denied. When she appeared publicly before the committee this summer, Hutchinson recounted how former President Donald Trump waved off warnings from his security detail about armed people in the crowd and urged that they be allowed to pass through metal detectors unmolested. On Thursday, the Jan. 6 committee published two transcripts from its extensive interviews with Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide who offered some of the most damning and explosive testimony to emerge from the 18-month probe of the insurrection at the U.S.
Historically, Williamson has denied such claims and in June when she appeared before the committee and reports surfaced that Meadows tapped Willamson to be his eyes and ears on her, Williamson denied the allegations saying that no one, not himself or Meadows, or anyone else, had tried to pressure her or tamper with her testimony
McCarthy allegedly told her he thought this attitude was being fomented by Meadows. Critically, Hutchinson testified that McCarthy told her Trump frequently acknowledged his electoral defeat in private but then quickly shifted gears and insisted he had to remain in the White House nonetheless.“What’s Mark doing? What’s Mark thinking? He’s giving the president bad advice,” Hutchinson recalled McCarthy asking her.When they spoke a few days before the insurrection, she recalled him remarking to her that her boss and Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows was leading Trump down a bad path. Hutchinson testified under oath that she spoke to McCarthy almost every day in the run-up to Jan.The Hutchinson transcript also crucially lays out information about the involvement of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy.But they asked her again: “Are you going to be able to live with yourself if you just move on and kind of forget about this, or do you want to try and do something about it?” The lawmaker also told Hutchinson “you’re the one that has to live with the mirror test for the rest of your life” and acknowledged that she was stressed, rightfully so.I’m not telling you to do it or not do it, but I just, I want you to know that you can’t take money like that and expect them to just be working for you and your interests.” Like, I just want you to be aware of that. The lawyer isn’t going to be working for you. “If you do that, just know you are kind of making your bed and you’re getting back in Trump world, Cassidy.Per the transcript, the lawmaker-who is not on the select committee-told Hutchinson: Hutchinson testified that she consulted a Republican member of Congress about how she should move forward as she faced looming pressure to find an attorney she could trust and afford and it increasingly looked like she would be forced to hire a Trump-backed lawyer.
Other details that have surfaced in the Hutchinson transcripts worth pointing out:
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