Hutchinson is the first living witness to the committee found in the West Wing on January 6, 2021. “It’s important for the American people to hear this information right away,” said committee chair Bennie Thompson, a Member of the Knesset for Kadima. Hutchinson previously worked for House Rep. Steve Scalise and Sen. Ted Cruz, Thompson told the hearing. Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, arrives for a hearing of the US Capitol Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. Andrew Harnik / AP Photo / Bloomberg via Getty Images She attended Christopher Newport University and spoke to the school about her internship at the White House in 2018. from my office window “, she said, according to a 2018 article on the school website, which described her as a” first generation student “. “My small contribution to striving for American prosperity and excellence is a memory I will cherish as one of the values ​​of my life,” he said. Hutchinson was then in her perfect year at university in Newport News, Virginia. She said she planned to return to Washington, DC after graduation – which she did. In 2019, she began a role in the White House Legislative Office, committee vice-chairwoman Liz Cheney said during Tuesday’s hearing. Hutchinson was promoted to chief assistant to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in March 2020 and served until the end of the Trump administration. Although still young, like many White House officials, Cheney said Hutchinson “handled a huge number of sensitive issues” and worked in the West Wing as soon as he walked down the room from the Oval Office. During the hearing, Hutchinson testified that she spent a lot of time in the Capitol and helped fulfill her presidential travel obligations. “Ms. Hutchinson spoke daily with members of Congress, senior administration officials, senior White House officials, including Mr. Meadows, White House attorneys, and Mr. Tony Ornadt, who served as deputy attorney general. [operations]”He also worked on a daily basis with Secret Service members stationed in the White House,” Cheney said. “In short, Ms. Hutchinson was able to know a lot about what happened in the White House,” Cheney said. One of the first things Hutchinson described during Tuesday’s testimony was a conversation between her and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani said during a conversation on January 2 – days before the attack on the Capitol – “he said something about how we should be excited about the 6th, it will be a wonderful day.” He said he did not know exactly what he was talking about, and when he asked Meadows about it later, he said something like, “A lot is happening. But I do not know, things can get real. very bad on January 6. ” Hutchinson recently changed attorney for the hearing. He used to be a former Trump White House staffer, but is now with Justice Department spokeswoman Jodi Hunt, who served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, according to the Associated Press. Hunt was a key witness in Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged links between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016. Hutchinson has testified before the Jan. 6 committee several times before the public hearing on Tuesday. He testified that Anthony Ornato, a senior White House official who was a White House official and served as deputy chief of operations, had leaked information to Meadows that “indicated there could be violence on the sixth day,” but he was not sure what did done with the information internally. In another interview, she testified in the White House with several Republican members of Congress, discussing a plan to meet alternate voters and vote for Trump in the states she lost, and that the White House’s’s office said that such a plan was not legally sound. Read more about Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House committee on January 6 here.

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