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Lordy, even more tapes? Cassidy Hutchinson appears to be the J6 select committee witness [1]
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Date: 2022-06-27 00:00:00
Ms. Hutchinson has provided the panel with some of its biggest revelations to date, all made during videotaped closed-door testimony, portions of which have been shown or alluded to in previous hearings. She is said to have been present when Mr. Meadows described hearing Mr. Trump react approvingly to chants by his supporters to hang Vice President Mike Pence. And she testified that a half-dozen Republican lawmakers who led the efforts in Congress to overturn the election sought pardons after the riot .
But pressed on the matter on Monday, aides declined to divulge what additional evidence they planned to present on Tuesday or who would be testifying.
www.nytimes.com/…
x Cassidy Hutchinson interned for Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise before she interned at White House. She worked in the WH Office of Leg Affairs in March 2019, became Meadows’s exec assistant in March 2020, then special asst to the Prez, office of the chief of staff in May 2020-Jan 21 — Barbara Comstock (@BarbaraComstock) June 28, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson also provided testimony to the committee that Meadows burned some of his papers after a meeting with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), who was advocating for Trump to replace the leadership of the Justice Department in service of his effort to remain in power. Lengthy excerpts of Hutchinson’s testimony have already been made public as part of the committee’s litigation against Meadows, who sued to block a subpoena for his own testimony and records.
Among other revelations Hutchinson helped unearth: that the White House counsel informed members of Trump’s team that it believed a plan to authorize alternative slates of presidential electors was illegal. She also described Meadows’ movements on Jan. 6, as chaos began to unfold at the Capitol.
“I know that he was on several calls during the rally. And I went over to meet with him at one point, and he had just waved me away, which is out of the ordinary,” Hutchinson recalled.
She also recalled hearing of Trump’s Jan. 6 movements on a Secret Service radio channel that broadcast his location to West Wing aides. That channel helped her discern that Trump was in the Oval Office dining room after his rally speech that afternoon.
www.politico.com/...
x Former Meadows aide to testify in surprise Jan. 6 committee hearing - POLITICO
https://t.co/ipqEprQTSX — Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 28, 2022
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is closely focused on phone calls and conversations among Donald Trump’s children and top aides captured by a documentary film-maker weeks before the 2020 election, say sources familiar with the matter.
The calls among Trump’s children and top aides took place at an invitation-only event at the Trump International hotel in Washington DC that took place the night of the first presidential debate on 29 September 2020, the sources said.
The select committee is interested in the calls, the sources said, since the footage is understood to show the former president’s children, including Donald Jr and Eric Trump, privately discussing strategies about the election at a crucial time in the presidential campaign.
House investigators first learned about the event, hosted by the Trump campaign, and the existence of the footage through British film-maker Alex Holder, who testified about what he and his crew recorded during a two-hour interview last week, the sources said. www.theguardian.com/...
x SCOOP: Jan. 6 committee zeroes in phone calls and conversations among Trump’s children and top aides strategizing about the 2020 election the night of the first debate — all captured on camera by documentary filmmaker Alex Holder. @GuardianUS
https://t.co/PJjYPRfIvr — Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) June 28, 2022
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