Of all the workplaces in America, few are as fabled or photographed as the one called the “Oval.” As in the Oval Office, West Wing of the White House, office of the president of the United States.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who was a special assistant to former President Donald Trump, White House coordinator for legislative affairs, and principal assistant to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, was a 25-year-old government aide in 2020 on a rapid trajectory to power.
Hutchinson, an avowed Republican, started her Washington career after her freshman year of college, when she interned during the summer of 2016 for Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. The next summer she interned for U.S. Rep. and Republican House Whip Steve Scalise, which she followed with a summer internship in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.
In March 2020, Meadows picked Hutchinson as his second-in-command. Her office, adjacent to Meadows, was mere feet from the Oval Office.
In her bestselling memoir, Enough, Hutchinson revealed in excruciating detail her insider’s view of exactly what happened at the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Before the book was published, 13 million Americans had witnessed Hutchinson’s televised recounting of that day in her testimony before the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
What was not clear from the Select Committee hearing in June 2022 was that Hutchinson had already given more than 24 hours of subpoenaed deposition...
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