The Department of Justice is seeking to indict former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for “lying” to Congress about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to new reporting. The news comes years after The Federalist exclusively exposed Hutchinson for her contradictory claims on the subject.
Punchbowl News’ Laura Weiss reported on Thursday claims from unnamed sources that the DOJ Civil Rights Division “brought evidence to a federal grand jury on Tuesday and is expected to present more evidence and additional witnesses later this month” in its pursuit of the sought-after indictment. The sources also reportedly told Weiss that Hutchinson “has not been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury” at this time.
In her June 2022 congressional testimony, Hutchinson made a series of grandiose claims about President Trump and her former White House colleagues regarding their conduct during the Jan. 6 riot. Among the many salacious allegations was her claim — based on “third-party conversations” — that the president “tried to violently hijack the presidential limousine to drive himself down to the rioters on Jan. 6,” as The Federalist summarized.
“As an American, I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic,” Hutchinson told Congress of the Jan. 6 events. “We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie, and it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest.”
Hutchinson’s incredibly suspect testimony was quickly shot down by key figures privy to the events of that day. That includes the driver of the president’s limousine, who testified under oath that Trump never did what Hutchinson alleged.
Other witnesses and former White House officials aren’t the only ones who have disputed Hutchinson’s far-fetched claims, however. Communications from Hutchinson herself show the former Mark Meadows aide completely undermining the sob story she told Congress.
Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway and Tristan Justice exclusively reported in these pages on roughly 18 months’ worth of private chats “between friends from the [first] Trump White House” showing how Hutchinson “dramatically changed her story about what she knew and how she felt about what she witnessed as a White House staffer.”
The communications documented Hutchinson discussing “with other targets of the [J6 House Committee] probe about how little information she had about any wrongdoing that day, and lamented how corrupt the politicized committee was.” “Far from being upset with Trump,” Hemingway and Justice wrote, “Hutchinson repeatedly spoke in favor of [Trump] and his presidency.”
[READ: House Republicans Expose J6 Committee’s Lies, Cover-Ups, Scandals In New Report]
In one text message sent three months after the Jan. 6 riot, for example, Hutchinson said that she’d “rather shoot myself dead into the Potomac than see marine one flying around this city without 45 again.” Other communications showed Hutchinson telling a former colleague after she was subpoenaed by the J6 Committee that she had nothing to offer the “phony” committee.
Additional text messages revealed Hutchinson trashing committee members like then-Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., whom Hutchinson would later go on to embrace as part of her J6 flip-flop.
Hutchinson also attempted to target Hemingway in her web of falsehoods. The former aide dishonestly contended that The Federalist editor-in-chief illegally obtained classified materials from Meadows, a claim which Hemingway denounced as “false” and Congress found to be “entirely uncorroborated.”
The Department of Justice did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
