Cassidy Hutchinson: The ex-Trump White House aide with a ‘smoking gun’
- Former White House aide offered some of the most explosive testimony so far to the House Committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot
- Her testimony was the first time a Trump staff member privy to his inner circle’s deliberations publicly tied him to the attack
Her name evokes an outlaw in the American Old West, and Cassidy Hutchinson did not disappoint as the young gunslinger gave it to Donald Trump with both barrels.
Once an ardently loyal foot soldier in the former commander-in-chief’s posse, Hutchinson turned sheriff Tuesday as she fired off a volley of allegations without historical parallel against an American president.
“This is the smoking gun,” Sol Wisenberg, a former deputy to Bill Clinton impeachment investigator Ken Starr, told The New York Times of Hutchinson’s testimony.
“There isn’t any question this establishes a prima facie case for his criminal culpability on seditious conspiracy charges.”
There may have been no “wanted” poster for Trump but Hutchinson painted her own portrait – of an unhinged president unable to cope with defeat, bidding at any cost to halt the peaceful transfer of power.