The committee did not identify either the witness or her lawyer, but sources told CNN on Tuesday who the attorney in question allegedly was.
of its findings released Monday, the Jan. 6 committee claimed that a Trump-backed lawyer advised a witness to testify “she did not recall facts when she actually did recall them,” telling her “[we] don’t want to talk about” an issue that might “cast a bad light” on the former president.
The committee did not identify either the witness or her lawyer, but sources told CNN on Tuesday that the attorney in question was Stefan Passantino, who served as Hutchinson’s lawyer until she dumped him ahead of her public testimony. The insiders also said Trump’s Save America PAC funded Passantino and his firm, Elections LLC, and paid for him to represent Hutchinson.
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