This post originally appeared on Glamour.
Cassidy Hutchinson, the latest witness in the January 6 committee hearings, has shed major insight about President Trump’s behavior on the day of the Capitol insurrection. But before today, she was a relative unknown, even among the most devoted C-SPAN viewers. Hutchinson, onetime aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, has quickly become a star witness with her descriptions of the President’s tantrum-ish outbursts.
Here’s a bit about Ms. Hutchinson’s role in all of this:
What’s her background? Hutchinson was an executive assistant to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff at the time of the insurrection, and she had contact with Meadows on January 6. She started in the position in March 2020. Previously, she’d interned for Senator Ted Cruz and for Representative Steve Scalise, and then entered the White House summer internship program, per The Washington Post. She attended Christopher Newport University. Here’s her LinkedIn.
What is she saying? Hutchinson has testified that prominent Republicans including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz sought pardons from Trump’s administration, that Meadows was warned of potential violence ahead of the 6th, and that he burned papers in his office after a meeting with Rep. Scott Perry, per Politico.
A video of Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, appears onscreen during the fifth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2022.MANDEL NGAN/Getty Images
During her live testimony, she also painted a colorful picture of Trump’s last-minute power grab and extreme frustration, saying that the president physically lashed out at the Secret Service when they would not take him to the Capitol and threw his lunch against a wall on multiple occasions, according to The Daily Beast.
What’s her position now? Hutchinson appears to be fully cooperating with the committee’s investigations. In addition to a taped deposition recorded earlier, she was the “surprise witness” in the live hearings on June 28. As NPR notes, she recently switched legal representation from a lawyer who has ties to Trump to a lawyer who has ties to former attorney general Jeff Sessions, whom Trump fired.
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