The most damning Jan. 6 testimony yet
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The Washington Post
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🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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On Tuesday in a surprise hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson gave the most damning testimony to date on President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
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It didn’t take long to find out why the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol chose to hold a surprise hearing on Tuesday: Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson provided what quickly became clear was the most damning testimony to date on President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6.
Reporter Aaron Blake says her testimony is particularly important when it comes to just how much Trump cultivated and even desired the insurrection itself — and whether, crucial from a legal standpoint, his effort to overturn the election was corrupt.
Hutchinson stitched together repeated warnings — some involving Trump himself, including that he was warned that his Jan. 6 rallygoers had weapons — about what might happen. Despite these warnings, aides struggled to talk Trump out of a plan to march to the Capitol. And despite warnings about weapons in the crowd the morning of Jan. 6, Trump still directed people toward the Capitol in his speech.
Hutchinson, a former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, said Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had advocated for a march to the Capitol after Trump’s speech on the Ellipse. She said this prompted Meadows to worry “things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6.”
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| 0:33.0 | And I remember Pat saying to him something to the effect of the riders got to the Capitol Mark. |
| 0:39.0 | We need to go down and see the president now. |
| 0:42.0 | And Mark looked up at it and said he doesn't want to do anything Pat. |
| 0:47.0 | And Pat said something to the effect of and very clearly had said this to Mark. |
| 0:54.0 | Something to the effect of Mark, something needs to be done, or people are going to die in the blood's going to be on your effing hands. |
| 1:02.0 | That is Cassidy Hutchinson. |
| 1:07.0 | She's a former top aide to Mark Meadows from Swite House Chief of Staff. |
| 1:11.0 | And today on Capitol Hill, her testimony in the January 6th Theorings has been explosive. |
| 1:17.0 | I sort of felt like I was watching a, this is not a great comparison, but a bad car accident. |
| 1:22.0 | I was about to happen where you can't stop it, but you want to be able to do something. |
| 1:30.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm Martin Powers. It's Tuesday, June 20th. |
| 1:41.0 | Today, we are diving into the testimony that everyone is talking about. |
| 1:45.0 | From a witness sharing new revelations about the actions of former President Trump in the lead up to the assault on the Capitol. |
| 1:53.0 | Reporter Aaron Blake has been watching today's testimony. |
| 1:56.0 | And he says that this former aide Hutchinson has delivered the most pivotal day of the January 6th Theorings so far. |
| 2:08.0 | Our witness today is Miss Cassidy Hutchinson, who served in the Trump administration in the White House office. |
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