The committee was not expected to hold another public session until mid-July, but on Monday it announced, with less than 24 hours notice, that it would return to Capitol Hill “to present newly obtained evidence and receive testimony.”
Hutchinson’s evidence is significant because it is one of the committee’s closest links to Meadows, which stopped cooperating with the Jan. 6 committee shortly after delivering thousands of text messages last year.
She revealed today that he, along with former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, have asked for pardons for the attack on the Capitol, adding his names to a list of other Republicans who had also asked for pardons, including Congressman far right Matt Gaetz, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania. and Reps Louie Gohmert and Andy Biggs.
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has provided some of his phone records to the committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riots. Credit: AP
As Meadow’s assistant, his office was a few seconds away from the Oval Office, and he was often present at critical White House meetings and conversations where election challenges were debated and discussed.
A conversation took place on January 2, after a meeting between Meadows and Giuliani, in which he said Giuliani told him, “Let’s go to the Capitol. It’ll be great.”
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Later, when he asked Meadows what Giuliani meant, Meadows replied, “things could get really, really bad” on January 6th.
Hutchinson said she became “scared and nervous about what might happen” as the day approached. These fears intensified after talks with White House attorney Pat Cipollone on Jan. 3, who had warned him that if Trump went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, “We will be charged with every crime imaginable.”
“We have to make sure this doesn’t happen, it would be a really terrible idea for us. We have serious legal concerns if we go up to the Capitol that day,” Hutchinson said of Cipollone.
He also recalled that Meadows told Cipollone about the mutineers singing “Hang Mike Pence!” and of Trump declaring that Pence, who refused to block Biden’s victory that day, “deserves it.”
He testified how Trump was so enraged by an interview that his then Attorney General Bill Barr gave to the Associated Press saying there was no evidence of election fraud that threw the lunch on the wall. “I first noticed that there was ketchup dripping down the wall and there was a broken porcelain plate,” he said.
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Hutchinson told the committee, “There were several times throughout my tenure with the chief of staff of whom I knew. [Trump] either by throwing dishes or flipping over the tablecloth to let all the contents of the table go to the floor and probably break or go everywhere. “
Today’s hearing has been the commission’s sixth public hearing since Jan. 6 so far. At each session, the committee has tried to argue that Trump had a complex plan to stay in power despite knowing that his actions were illegal, and he was the person who essentially “lit the wick” of the attack. deadly at the Capitol last year.
Much of this was based on an elaborate scheme to annul the 2020 election, which involved bringing together a group of pro-Trump voters in key battlefield states that could replace genuine College voters. Electoral.
These fake voter boards would create fake certificates for Trump that would be passed on to Washington to count during the joint January 6 session of Congress.
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However, Trump has constantly denied having done anything wrong, and during today’s testimony Hutchinson posted on his social media website, Social Truth, that it was “bad news!”
“I don’t know who this person is, Cassidy Hutchinson, other than that I heard very negative things about her (a total fake and a‘ filter ’), and when she asked to go with some others on the team to Florida after I had served. during a full term, I personally rejected his request, “Trump wrote.
“Why did she want to go with us if she felt like we were so terrible? I understand she was very upset and angry because she didn’t want me to go, or to be a member of the team. That’s bad news!”