Cassidy Hutchinson was very close to Donald Trump but hardly anyone saw her. She sat listening and taking notes and, as befitted her position as adviser to the president's chief of staff, Marc Meadows in her case, barely said a word at the many important high-level meetings she was called upon to attend.
Observant, young and undoubtedly brave, that is, with her whole future ahead of her, the 26-year-old Political Science graduate, who graduated from Christopher Newport University in Virginia just three years ago, is the perfect witness for the prosecution; Perhaps the new John Dean of American politics, some in Washington point out, alluding to the former presidential adviser who accused Richard Nixon of the greatest responsibility in the Watergate scandal.
For now, the accounts Hutchinson provided to the Capitol Hill raid investigative committee about how Trump got into a fight with his security chief and jumped over the wheel of the limousine to go to the Capitol and join a mob he knew was armed, or of how one day he smashed his lunch plate against the wall and left it leaking ketchup because Attorney General Bill Barr had rejected his accusation of "fraud" in the presidential elections constitute the most important testimony released to date in relation to the attempted coup of the 6-E; and perhaps, according to many experts, the definitive push towards an indictment of the former president, by Attorney General Merick Garland, for federal criminal offenses as serious as conspiracy to sedition, obstruction of the work of Congress or conspiracy to defraud the United States. .
Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman, who served as lead attorney during Trump's first political or impeachment, said yesterday that Hutchinson's testimony radically changed his expectations about a possible prosecution of the former president. “Until now, we have seen no evidence that Trump knew of the violence” that could be unleashed on 6-E, he told The New York Times. "But the former adviser's statement made it very clear that he was not only fully aware of that threat but that he wanted armed people to march on Capitol Hill and even that he was willing to lead them."
Goldman is a Democrat and is now running for Congress, so his views can be seen as politicized. But it turns out that his diagnosis coincides with the one that two federal judges, Amit Mehta and David Carter, formulated months ago in separate civil cases linked to 6-E. Metha considered that he could hold Trump responsible for having instigated the insurrectionists who assaulted police officers during the attack on Capitol Hill. And Carter judged it "likely" that the former president committed at least one federal crime through "corrupt obstruction of the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021."
Cassidy Hutchinson is not a legal expert, nor is she a Democrat. She is a professional politician and a Republican, as she was introduced by her co-religionist Liz Cheney -- the vice chair of the committee on the Capitol storming -- before her explosive testimony on Tuesday.
Trump attributed the spectacular declaration of the former adviser to a desire for “revenge” after he had refused, “personally”, to incorporate her into the staff of aides who assist him in his political campaign and fundraising headquarters at his residence in Mar -a-Lago, in Florida. The manager added, however, despite this personal decision, that he "barely knows" Hutchinson.
In the circle close to the Republican leader, they did know the witness well: first as an intern for congressmen Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise, and, from March 2020 to the end of Trump's term in January 2021, as the "shadow of Meadows ”. Today, in June 2022, Hutchinson begins to be known throughout the world.
