Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who became a key witness in congressional Jan. 6 hearings, alleges that former President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, groped her on the day of the assault on the Capitol.
The incident allegedly took place backstage at former President Donald Trump's speech on the day of the insurrection. In an excerpt from Hutchinson's new memoir, "Enough," obtained by The Guardian, Hutchinson says the former mayor put his hand under her skirt.
"Rudy wraps one arm around my body, closing the space that was separating us... I lower my eyes and watch his free hand reach for the hem of my blazer," she wrote of Giuliani.
"'By the way,' he says, fingering the fabric, 'I'm loving this leather jacket on you.' His hand slips under my blazer, then my skirt... I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy's grip," she wrote in the book published by Simon and Schuster, which is a division of CBS News' parent company Paramount Global. It is set to be released Tuesday.
Giuliani denied the allegations during an interview with Newsmax's Eric Boiling. "First of all, I am not going to grope somebody at all. False, totally absurd," he said.
Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman told CBS News, "These allegations are false."
Last year, Hutchinson testified to Congress about her disgust with the Jan. 6 attack. "We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie," she said at the time.
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