What a maroon.[INSIDER] Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide in the Trump administration and a key witness in the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack's hearings, said she initially lied to the committee in a deposition about whether she'd heard about President Donald Trump's lunging at a Secret Service agent in the presidential SUV on January 6, 2020.
In her newly-released depositions with the committee, Hutchinson explained that she was coerced by her Trump-aligned attorney, Stefan Passantino, to mislead them on how much information she actually knew.
So it was Trump's fault all along, see?
"The committee doesn't know what you can and can't recall, so we want to be able to use that as much as we can unless you really, really remember something very clearly," Hutchinson said Passantino told her.
Hutchinson said she followed the advice of her counsel, and when asked about a moment on January 6 when the president reportedly lunged at a member of the Secret Service in his SUV for not taking him to the Capitol alongside protestors, she said she told them she had "never heard anything about that."
Following the deposition, she later told the committee in a separate deposition that she broke down in front of Passantino out of fear that she had just lied to the committee.
"Stefan, I'm fucked.
"I shoulda kept my legs closed!"
I just lied,"
"Heels together!"
Hutchinson said she told Passantino. "I lied, I lied, I lied."
"And shoulda kept my mouth closed!"
"Did you at least use mouthwash afterward?"
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