Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide, said she had to flee Washington, D.C. for safety after she testified before the Jan. 6 Committee.
“I could not go back to my apartment,” Hutchinson told reporter Tracy Smith in an interview set to air Sunday on “CBS New Sunday Morning.”
Hutchinson, the former assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, said her safety was threatened. Her legal team recommended she leave town.
“I ended up moving down to Atlanta for several months,” she said.
Hutchinson was the first White House member to testify before the committee. On June 28, 2022, Hutchinson told the committee about what she witnessed in the days following the Capitol insurrection.
The former aide told Smith that she almost “darted” from the holding room before testifying.
“I heard the door click open and I turned around and I looked at my attorney and said ‘I can’t do this.’ And I started to walk and he gently pushed my shoulders. And he said, ‘You can do this.’ And then we walked out,” Hutchinson said in the interview.
Hutchinson said she is still a Republican but will not be supporting former President Trump’s White House bid in the 2024 election.
Hutchinson is releasing a book which details her experience in the White House and leading up to testifying at the committee. Her book accuses former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani of groping her backstage during Trump’s Jan. 6 rally.
Hutchinson’s first TV interview will air on CBS and be available for streaming on Sept. 24. Her book, titled “Enough,” is set to publish on Sept. 26.
You’re just spitting facts, Donald Trump is a dangerous fascist authoritarian, and DeSantis is 10000x scarier to me
Here’s what scares me … what if one of these fuckers dies before the election? Total chaos.
I have a colleague who does epigenetic research. It sounds like these guys will be around for a while, but it’s a bit of a crapshoot at their ages
I mean depends on how you define chaos it’s not completely unpredictable. Especially as we get closer and closer. If either dropped dead tomorrow it might be pretty wild, but if it’s in July? Not so much
If Trump dies there will for sure be a crazy scramble for who gets the mantle, DeSantis’s stock as been waning but he’d for sure attempt to seize the opportunity and put himself in the drivers seat. And I think at this moment he’d probably succeed. But I don’t think he can unite the GOP electorate nationwide, especially when a solid third of them will likely buy into some half assed assassination conspiracy. Which is scary because they will likely get even more violent in response. Additionally I think the right would splitter pretty hard without him to unite all of their most extreme memebers.
If Biden dies would be less off the wall but maybe harder to predict, Kamala would obviously make her case as incumbent and since she’d be running against Trump I don’t think the DNC would want to sew division. Especially if he kicks it after the campaign really ramps up next year. No time to vet a new nomination in the primaries. This is scary, because while I would obviously vote for her against Trump, I am not fond of her being a fucking DA, I’m sure many others do to and she additionally has the disadvantage of how sexist this country is towards women. And while that irritates the piss out of me it’s the reality, and that disadvantage might cost her an electoral victory against Trump.
So you are right that shit would be scary