BREAKING: Closed-door testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee that's just been made public shows how a former White House aide described a wide-ranging pressure campaign from allies of Donald Trump aimed at influencing her cooperation with Congress.
In a televised hearing in June, Hutchinson went public about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. She described his directive that magnetometers be removed from a rally of his supporters that day and detailed his angry — and ultimately rebuffed — demands to be taken by the Secret Service to the Capitol to join the crowd trying to disrupt the congressional certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s election as president.
She said she was contacted in February by Passantino, a former White House ethics counsel, who told her he would be her lawyer. He said she would not have to pay for his services but demurred when she asked from where the money was coming. She later learned that it was from Trump allies.“If you want to know at the end, we’ll let you know,” she described him as saying, “but we’re not telling people where funding is coming from right now. Don’t worry, we’re taking care of you.
“No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that,” she described him as saying. In his statement, Passantino said he believed “Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her.”
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