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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

DOJ Seeks Charges Against Former White House Aide and Jan. 6 Whistleblower Cassidy Hutchinson - Democracy Now!

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has convened a federal grand jury as it seeks a criminal indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who was a key witness to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In 2022, Cassidy testified that President Trump knew attendees to his rally outside the White House on January 6 were armed with assault rifles, handguns, knives and mace, but ordered the Secret Service to remove security magnetometers, or “mags,” from the rally.

Cassidy Hutchinson: “I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, 'I don't effing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.



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