Cassidy Hutchinson revealed that former President Donald Trump privately acknowledged his 2020 election loss and recounted how Trump allies took advantage of her financial status to sway her testimony to the Jan. 6 committee, according to a fresh batch of transcripts from the panel.
The Jan. 6 committee panel dropped two transcripts Thursday from closed-door September interviews done with Hutchinson, a former White House aide, in the wake of her appearance at a public hearing over the summer. Much of the transcripts rehashed her public testimony and explained the final straw in her decision to go before the panel publicly.Here are some of the top takeaways from the transcript dump.
Hutchinson had reached out to Trumpworld for help and was ultimately referred to Passantino. Passantino declined to disclose where the funding for his pro bono work originated. He appeared to have deep ties to Trumpworld and even offered to help her find a job. "No, no, no," she recalled Passantino saying."Look, we want to get you in, get you out. We're going to downplay your role. You were a secretary. You had an administrative role. Everyone's on the same page about this. It's extremely unfair ... that the committee is putting you in this position in the first place. You really have nothing to do with any of this ... the less you remember, the better.
Here's a collection of Cassidy Hutchinson's first lawyer, former Trump White House ethics lawyer Stefan Passantino, telling her to downplay her role in the White House and leave out important details during her Jan 6 committee deposition.— Daniel Barnes December 22, 2022 Republican member of Congress steered her to the committee
"After I read all of this, where he had talked about like how he fought the moral struggle, where he felt like he still had to be loyal to the Nixon White House, but he talked about a lot of the same things that I felt like I was experiencing. And, you know, it wasn't an identical situation, but it's — it's the — the emphasis he placed on the moral questions that he was asking himself resonated with me," she explained.
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