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Hey, good morning, playbookers and Rookumonovalin. It's Wednesday. Yesterday's January 6th hearing

probably couldn't have gone much worse for Donald Trump. It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

With vivid stories told in measured tones, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant to the president,

who worked as an aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows,

quote, stitched together every element of the panel's case against Donald Trump.

But it goes Calcini and Nicholas Wu Wright.

The Capitol Right committee has painted the former president's potential criminal culpability

for his effort to overturn

the election in Stark Hughes.

Investigators had portrayed Trump fuming, atop and increasingly conspiracies, addled West

wing, and working to corrupt the peaceful transfer of power at any cost.

There's a longer breakdown in today's playbook, but among the stunning revelations in Hutchinson's

testimony, Trump knew that supporters

on January 6 were armed and didn't care. Trump demanded his team take him to the Capitol.

When the motorcade refused to go to the Capitol, Trump angrily grabbed the steering wheel

and allegedly assaulted a Secret Service agent. Trump agreed with rioters that Vice President

Mike Pence, quote, deserved to be hanged. Meadows and Giuliani were interested in pardons from Trump for their actions related

to January 6th and attempts to overturn the election.

Though the former president took the truth social to deny the most damning testimony

and attack Hutchinson, much of Trump world has been quiet, and most Republicans aren't

pushing back on the core of the testimony, even as some suggest that her most explosive allegations are supposedly hearsay.

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