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Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots that she saw her former boss, then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, burn documents in the final weeks of the Trump administration.
In newly released testimony from Hutchinson originally taken in May, the former aide alleged "there were were maybe three or four times that I am aware of that I saw him throw a few things into the fireplace," but she "never asked" what they were.
"They were full sheets of paper," she claimed, adding: "I remember them being 8 by 11, 8.5 by 11 sheets of paper."
Elsewhere in her interview with the committee, Hutchinson said: "I don't know if they were the first or original copies of anything. It's entirely possible that he had put things in his fireplace that he also would have put into a burn bag that there were duplicates of or that there was an electronic copy of."
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Hutchinson made headlines earlier this year with her shocking public testimony about Donald Trump, but she sat for hours of recorded depositions ahead of the televised hearing.
Among the revelations she made to the committee were that Trump-allied attorneys initially represented her — which caused concern for how she would move forward outside the former president's circle.
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