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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,129 posts)
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:12 AM Jun 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean

I am looking forward to the hearings next week. The Jan. 6 committee has the testimony of a number of staffers who were in the room where it happened and their testimony could be as powerful as Dean's testimony.




https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/jan-6-committee-set-make-its-case-public-with-prime-time-hearing/

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, has sat for multiple depositions with investigators — more than 20 hours — and is expected to play a starring role in the hearings, according to people familiar with the matter. Hutchinson, people familiar with the committee said, has provided extensive information about Meadows’s activities in trying to overturn the election......

The Washington Post reported late last month that Hutchinson had told the committee that Meadows remarked to others that Trump indicated support for hanging his vice president after rioters who stormed the Capitol on that day started chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”

“Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean,” Eisen added, referring to the former presidential counsel who accused President Richard M. Nixon of having direct involvement in the Watergate scandal to Senate investigators and federal prosecutors.

Hutchinson is likely to testify live before the committee, complemented by video footage of previous interviews before investigators, according to a person familiar with the investigation.

The Jan. 6 committee does not need Meadow's testimony directly when his top aide and others can testify

I am also looking forward to Michael Luttig's testimony. Luttig is former judge and is well respected

The Washington Post reported late last month that Hutchinson had told the committee that Meadows remarked to others that Trump indicated support for hanging his vice president after rioters who stormed the Capitol on that day started chanting, “Hang Mike Pence!”

“Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean,” Eisen added, referring to the former presidential counsel who accused President Richard M. Nixon of having direct involvement in the Watergate scandal to Senate investigators and federal prosecutors.

Hutchinson is likely to testify live before the committee, complemented by video footage of previous interviews before investigators, according to a person familiar with the investigation.



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Cassidy Hutchinson might turn out to be the next John Dean (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 OP
Meet your star witness: LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #1
might be a great stroke out coming ? cloudboy07 Jun 2022 #2
She was (elsewhere) my first guess BECAUSE mchill Jun 2022 #3
Why Now? And Why So Suddenly? SoCalDavidS Jun 2022 #4
Cassidy Hutchinson has received credible threats LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2022 #6
Ooh! Did I come close? usonian Jun 2022 #5
That's Quite A List Of Names SoCalDavidS Jun 2022 #7

SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
4. Why Now? And Why So Suddenly?
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:25 AM
Jun 2022

If she met with them several weeks ago, why all of a sudden the last minute scheduling of her appearance?

usonian

(9,774 posts)
5. Ooh! Did I come close?
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 01:29 AM
Jun 2022

Earlier today, I hoped for:
"Someone who has names and proof of representatives and senators "and friends of the court" deeply involved in the attack and/or elector-stuffing plans."

Following links, this
Former Meadows Aide Says Lauren Boebert Was Involved in ‘Early Planning’ of January 6th
https://hillreporter.com/former-meadows-aide-says-lauren-boebert-was-involved-in-early-planning-of-january-6th-130250


HillReporter.com
NEWS
Former Meadows Aide Says Lauren Boebert Was Involved in ‘Early Planning’ of January 6th

BY TARA DUBLIN
APRIL 27, 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, identified Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) as one of a small group of Republican lawmakers who met with Meadows as early as the last week of November 2020 to “raise the idea” of former Vice President Mike Pence intervening to prevent the certification of election results by Congress on January 6, 2021. The ensuing assault on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters that day led to the deaths of five people and Trump’s eventual second impeachment trial.

Hutchinson specifically named Boebert in her testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol in February. Portions of her testimony were made public this week as part of a legal filing made by lawyers for the committee in a lawsuit brought against it by Meadows in an effort to block several subpoenas.


Boebert has been scrutinized for giving tours of the Capitol to a “large group” of people on the day prior to the insurrection, and for sending tweets that some characterized as relaying “intel” about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s location during the attack. On the morning of January 6th, she tweeted, “Today is 1776.”


Under questioning, Hutchinson recalled several meetings in the weeks after Thanksgiving in which “campaign officials and a few members of Congress” discussed the possibility of Pence aiding an effort to overturn the election results on January 6th. “Mr. Scott Perry, Mr. Jim Jordan… Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene. and Lauren Boebert are the four members that immediately jump out to me,” Hutchinson said.


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SoCalDavidS

(9,998 posts)
7. That's Quite A List Of Names
Tue Jun 28, 2022, 02:21 AM
Jun 2022

I'm not going to get my hopes up, that this will result in "consequences," but if there is any Justice left in this country, those Fuckers would be out of Congress before the mid-terms.

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