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The Hutchinson Report to the Committee on Investigations by the Associated Law Enforcement Commission and the Working Group of the Center for Investigative Investigations

The committee believed some witnesses, such as Trump’s former White House press secretary and the president’s daughter, weren’t as direct as others.

Passantino earlier this week maintained to CNN he was ethical when he represented Hutchinson and said he believed her initial rounds of testimony to the committee were truthful and that she was being cooperative. “I believed Ms. Hutchinson was being truthful and cooperative with the Committee throughout the several interview sessions in which I represented her,” he said in a statement.

Hutchinson said that her “breaking point” with Passantino came in June when he advised her not to speak to the committee any more, saying that risking “contempt is a small risk, but running to the right is better for you.”

In September she testified that she turned to a Trump lawyer because she couldn’t pay her legal bills, because she was beholden to the former President.

Passantino said it was not uncommon for people to change lawyers because of their interests. He also said political committees sometimes cover client fees “at the client’s request.”

Passantino admitted in his statement that he was on leave from the firm because of the distraction, and his professional biography had been taken down from the firm’s website. On Tuesday, Michael Best & Friedrich said it wasn’t involved in the situation and Hutchinson wasn’t a client.

Report on the ‘Barely Right’ Lawyers’ Investigation of the Mueller-Jacobi Investigation in the House of Representatives to the Judiciary Branch

Then on Monday, in the executive summary of the final report, the committee revisited the issue in its handoff of the investigation to the Justice Department.

“When the witness raised concerns with her lawyer about that approach,” according to the summary, the lawyer said, “They don’t know what you know, [witness]. You can recall a few things, they don’t know it. You are saying ‘I don’t recall’ as an acceptable response.

“The lawyer instructed the client about a particular issue that would cast a bad light on President Trump: ‘No, no, no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to talk about that,’” the report said.

At the committee’s final public hearing, Lofgren said: “The witness believed this was an effort to affect her testimony, and we are concerned that these efforts may have been a strategy to prevent the Committee from finding the truth.”

Lawyers have to follow ethics guidelines as part of their profession to avoid conflicts of interest. According to legal ethics experts, a lawyer swaying their client’s testimony in a way that wouldn’t be entirely truthful could be looked at as possible obstruction of an investigation.

Save America was formed by Trump to assist witnesses in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations. An issue only arises if the lawyer doesn’t follow the client’s wishes, legal experts and professional rules say.

Reply to the Committee on ‘Measurement for the President’s Deflection Against a Dark Side of the White House’

It added: “The committee is aware that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office have already obtained information relevant to these matters, including from the committee directly. We urge the Department of Justice to examine the facts to discern whether prosecution is warranted.”

She continued: “‘I am completely indebted to these people,’ and I was like, ‘And they will ruin my life, Mom, if I do anything they don’t want me to do.’”

CNN reported Tuesday that the committee was referring to Passantino when it described an unnamed lawyer telling a committee witness to say that she could not recall events that she knew in its summary released this week.

Hutchinson said Passantino told her Trump was fine with what she had said. “‘But it’s just a good reminder that the boss does read transcripts. She said he told her to make sure that whoever he reads is not putting her in a bad situation.

She told the committee that he gave her away to not discuss what she knew about Trump’s argument with his Secret Service detail. I remember he sat in his chair and said no, no, no. We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to discuss that.

Everything is going to be okay. Hutchinson described Passantino as saying we are taking care of you. Don’t downplay your position. … It’s not fair that Mark [Meadows] put you in this position. We just want to focus on protecting the president. We all know you’re loyal. I promise that this day will be easy and I will just get you in and out.

In what she called “one thing I regret in all of this,” Hutchinson described begging her father, who she said she doesn’t have a relationship with, to lend her the money.

She promised to pay him back the interest he paid. “And he just didn’t get it. I did not think he would. But I just left there feeling defeated.”

“He said something to the effect of, ‘Well, Mark wants me to let you know that he knows you’re loyal and he knows you’ll do the right thing tomorrow and that you’re going to protect him and the boss,’” Williamson told her, according to Hutchinson’s testimony.

“Cassidy Hutchinson is a patriot who bravely upheld the oath she swore when she took a job in the White House. I am grateful for her willingness to share her unvarnished truth with the American public.

“This was like the first clear indicator for me of he doesn’t care about what I want, he doesn’t care about what I think is best for me, he’s doing what he thinks is best for Trump and the people in Trump’s orbit,” she said.

Cassidy Hutchinson, aka Stefan Passantino, Testified at the January 6 Subcommittee on Discrepancies

The committee had suggested it might seek Hutchinson to return to testify once more in a classified setting, and Hutchinson asked Passantino whether she had heard from the committee about additional interviews.

The best thing for you is what we think. Passantino said that this needs to end at a certain point, according to her testimony.

“It was clear for a long time that he was not representing my interests in how he knew I wanted to facilitate my relationship with the committee,” she testified. I was not going to allow this moment to destroy my reputation, my integrity, and my character for a cause I was against. This is the end of us and Stefan.

The January 6 committee has released another bunch of transcripts, including some testimony from several Trump White House officials and two more interviews with Cassidy Hutchinson.

She had her final deposition with her lawyer on May 17 of this year. She soon hired a new attorney, Jody Hunt, and sat for another deposition on June 20, a transcript of which was also released Tuesday. She gave a surprise testimony at the January 6 committee hearing.

The latest cache of transcripts also revealed some of the rumors, gossip and wild conspiracies that were floating around the White House – including conversations about QAnon conspiracies – while then-President Donald Trump refused to concede and tried to overturn the election results.

Hutchinson said she did not hear them personally, but did hear that they were said to two White House lawyers. Hutchinson was warned not to accidentally reveal privileged legal advice by Passatino.

She went on to testify that she overheard Meadows say Trump thought “maybe perhaps the chants were justified.” This detail ended up being one of the most damning things to emerge from her testimony and was featured prominently at the panel’s public hearings.

He said that he didn’t want to interrupt or shape what the people were saying at the time and that he offered a different take on Trump’s reaction. He told the lawmakers that he believed “the President said perhaps they’re right” as opposed to expressing a clear, affirmative view that Pence should be executed, according to the transcripts.

XMM-Newton Director of the White House, John R. Hutchinson, Testified at the January 6 Committee on a Democratic Party Candidate

Hutchinson walked the committee through the transcripts of her first two interviews in order to clarify and elaborate on a number of things she had said.

Meadows told White House staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” during the transition period, potentially leaving meetings off the books, according to one of the Hutchinson transcripts.

On several occasions, Hutchinson said, she was in Meadows’ office when he threw documents into the fireplace after a meeting. At least twice, the burning came after meetings with GOP Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, who has been linked to the efforts to use the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election. It was previously reported that the documents were burned after the meeting.

In a testimony, Hutchinson said that Marjorie Taylor Greene brought Qanon several times in the presence of the president. “I remember Mark having a few conversations, too, about – more specific to QAnon stuff and more about the idea that they had with the election and, you know, not as much pertaining to the planning of the January 6th rally.”

“He said, ‘Have you looked into it yet, Cass? I think they offer a lot of good ideas. You really need to read this. Make sure the chief sees it,’” she continued.

Hutchinson said he did not take it as sarcasm. Throughout my tenure as the chief of staff, he frequently brought in memos and PowerPoints on various policy proposals, you know, Q is saying this.

Former Trump White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere testified to the January 6 committee that he heard “gossip” from his colleagues during the week after the 2020 election that Trump was considering conceding and inviting the Bidens to the White House.

A transcript of his testimony was released Tuesday, and it said there was gossip around the building that he was thinking about giving up.

I was very curious about the President-elect and the First Lady’s plans to be in the country, since I was the deputy press secretary in charge of ensuring access to him.

Deere said he couldn’t remember where he heard the rumors. The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was a result of Trump trying to overturn the election results and not concede to Biden.

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