Cassidy Hutchinson gave some of the most damning testimony the Jan. 6 committee heard about former President Donald Trump.
on Tuesday that a Trump-connected lawyer who had been representing the former Mark Meadows aide advised her to lie to the committee.
The lawyer, Stefan Passantino, served as the top White House ethics lawyer under Trump and previously represented the Trump Organization. Sources told CNN he was allegedly paid by Trump’s Save America PAC to represent Hutchinson, but before testifying. She apparently ignored his advice to mislead the committee, as her bombshell public testimony provided insight into Trump’s behavior on the day of the Capitol riot.’s final report, the committee detailed allegations against an attorney, including that the “lawyer had advised the witness that the witness could, in certain circumstances, tell the Committee that she did not recall facts when she actually did recall them.
during a public hearing in June that the committee had learned Trump allies were using a variety of tactics to attempt to influence witnesses. In the executive summary of the report, the committee indicates that the client whose lawyer told them to lie, now reported to be Hutchinson, “was offered potential employment that would make her ‘financially very comfortable’ as the date of her testimony approached by entities apparently linked to Donald Trump and his associates.
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