During her time as Mark Meadows’ right hand, Cassidy Hutchinson found herself in the room for a host of critical Trump-era moments. She’s preparing to tell the Jan. 6 select committee, and the world, her eyewitness account on Tuesday.
Hutchinson’s knowledge of the post-election campaign by Donald Trump loyalists to keep him in power for a second term he didn’t win — an awareness belied by her young age — already has proven highly valuable to the panel and helped it fill in details previously obscured by stonewalling. Her public testimony Tuesday, hastily announced by the committee the previous day, is expected to bring America inside the West Wing as Trump, his then-chief of staff Meadows, and their allies tried to reverse Joe Biden’s victory.
“Almost all, if not all, meetings Mr. Trump had, I had insight on,” Hutchinson has told the committee.
Capitol riot investigators have revealed significant portions of Hutchinson’s prior testimony in litigation and in previous hearings. Hutchinson was present, she told the committee, when then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone told Meadows and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani that a Trump-backed plan to appoint alternate presidential electors was legally unsound. She was there when Meadows convened members of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus to strategize about challenging the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.
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