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Home Front: Politix
Cassidy Hutchinson says she initially lied to the January 6 committee about Trump allegedly grabbing the steering wheel of his SUV and lunging at a Secret Service agent
2022-12-23
What a maroon.
[INSIDER] Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide in the Trump administration and a key witness in the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack's hearings, said she initially lied to the committee in a deposition about whether she'd heard about President Donald Trump's lunging at a Secret Service agent in the presidential SUV on January 6, 2020.

In her newly-released depositions with the committee, Hutchinson explained that she was coerced by her Trump-aligned attorney, Stefan Passantino, to mislead them on how much information she actually knew.
So it was Trump's fault all along, see?
"The committee doesn't know what you can and can't recall, so we want to be able to use that as much as we can unless you really, really remember something very clearly," Hutchinson said Passantino told her.

Hutchinson said she followed the advice of her counsel, and when asked about a moment on January 6 when the president reportedly lunged at a member of the Secret Service in his SUV for not taking him to the Capitol alongside protestors, she said she told them she had "never heard anything about that."

Following the deposition, she later told the committee in a separate deposition that she broke down in front of Passantino out of fear that she had just lied to the committee.

"Stefan, I'm fucked.
"I shoulda kept my legs closed!"
I just lied,"
"Heels together!"
Hutchinson said she told Passantino. "I lied, I lied, I lied."
"And shoulda kept my mouth closed!"
"Did you at least use mouthwash afterward?"

Related:
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Cassidy Hutchinson: 2022-07-08 Ex DHS head Jeh Johnson 'concerned' J6 committee 'overreached' with unprovable Hutchinson testimony
Posted by:Besoeker

#9  ^I think someone on his staff hired her to answer the phone. With respect to most of his hiring, I agree with you.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-23 17:30  

#8  Trump hired people like this repeatedly. I have trouble understanding people who think he's some kind of genius.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-23 17:18  

#7  She lied about hearsay to a sham committee that Americans didn’t care about. Sentence her to run the cash register at the gift shop for any WNBA franchise until the league gets inevitably sucked into a black hole of irrelevance.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-23 17:14  

#6  The original legal principle was once you lied you were assumed a liar ever after.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2022-12-23 13:30  

#5  So, were you lying first, later, or now?
Posted by: ed in texas   2022-12-23 13:26  

#4  Her "Trump-aligned attorney, Stefan Passantino"?

What evidence do we have that this is not just another lie?

What are the odds we'll find out some day that Passantino was really working for the FBI?

And what does it matter anyway? A lie is a lie. The woman has no credibility, just like the entire January 6 committee.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-12-23 12:03  

#3  Women who lie. What a blockbuster.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-23 10:04  

#2  No, no and no...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-12-23 10:04  

#1  So will she be charged with perjury? Will the press put it on the front page? Will justice for Trump be served???
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-12-23 09:59  

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