Why is a 25 year old just out of college

[cilla4progress]

advising the Chief of Staff of the President of the US????

[iemanja]

1. Who are you referring to?

[Claustrum]

3. Cassidy, the key witness on the hearing today n/t

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Ms. Hutchison

Cassidy Hutchison, who testified about the goings-on January 6.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Cassidy Hutchinson, 25 and 2 years out of college then, according to AP

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-cassidy-hutchinson-205e494cea6fc8c91b548d83ebd82593

26 now, according to CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/28/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-who-is/index.html

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Smartest person in the room really stands out.

Ergo…

[MOMFUDSKI]

37. Plus

SOMEBODY thought she was fuckable. That is usually the underlying reason. Tell me I am wrong.

[Snarkoleptic]

39. The Hope Hicks hiring comes to mind.

TFG is a walking id with no hint of superego to temper his awful instincts.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. It's who you know, your school, what your connections are, what your drive and grades are

Never dismiss the idea that true talent can be buried forever due to lack of those elements.

And yes, I do understand the OP, same thought here. She's showing concern, asking them to do something. The world is upside down.

[AkFemDem]

24. She is a first gen college student from a small regional public university

Just pointing that out because she’s not someone who came to the table through nepotism or a powerful alumna network.

She actually started as a WH intern, and was promoted fairly quickly for whatever reason.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Talent discovered for once.

I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out.

[CanonRay]

41. I think she worked for Scalise

[leighbythesea2]

5. I dont know

Trumps staff was a revolving door, for one.

But she's turned out to be the honest one.

[cilla4progress]

19. Yep.

Good thing.

[Tree Lady]

6. Because all the other aides quit

Over the 4 years he was in.

[Bucky]

9. Who's 25? Hutchinson?

She'd worked for Cruz and Scalise before coming over to the White House.

I mean, I'm sure she got there through personal connections. It's not like the Republican party is a meritocracy. But she did get promoted for her competence in each previous job she'd held. It was their error picking someone who still had a fresh recollection of the principles of democracy taught in her college classes.

[secondwind]

10. Because she knows where all the bodies are buried...

She was EXCELLENT.

[comradebillyboy]

11. She wasn't an advisor she was a gofer. She was one of the

silent helpers who make appointments, schedule meetings etc. She didn't give advice or make decisions, but she was always around listening and observing. A perfect witness.

[NJCher]

20. not so sure about that

did you hear others from that circle testify as to her responsibilities? They were speaking up today on CNN.

It was pretty convincing.

I agree with the opinions upthread: it was such a revolving door that it made it possible for her to move into such a position.

[cilla4progress]

22. Meadows and others were consulting with her all day

on the 5th and 6th. She was, like, the locus of power!

[Cracklin Charlie]

35. Because she could reach the locus.

Meadows!

[cilla4progress]

42. Rachel Maddow just said she was an advisor

to Meadows

[JHB]

46. Oh, the number of people hired as gophers who become de facto advisors...

...because they stay on top of their job while their boss and his (almost always "his" ) nominal advisors are a bunch of bumblefucks...

[iemanja]

12. She was a White House intern

and evidently a lot of young people work at the White House: https://heavy.com/news/cassidy-hutchinson/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

13. I wondered the same thing!

[Bucky]

14. How much you wanna bet it turns out her daddy was a big dollar donor to the Republicans?

[iemanja]

18. She says she's a first generation college student

Some details on her here: https://heavy.com/news/cassidy-hutchinson/

[Bucky]

31. Well, mea culpa then.

Thanks for the link. I'm old and curmudgeonly, but still swayable by facts.

I still consider anyone being a Trumper for any period of time a lapse in moral judgment. But hooray for showing growth.

[AkFemDem]

26. She's from Williamsburg

A “blue” district for what it’s worth, and is a first gen college student so I don’t think so.

[Bucky]

27. Okay, I retract my offer to take bets

She worked hard to get where she's at. I grant her that. It took courage.

She's still a Republican and a Trumper. I'm glad she did her civic duty. But no parade until she moderates her politics.

[AkFemDem]

30. Agree, hopefully this is a wake up- sometimes...

A convert is a bigger believer than someone born into a community.

[question everything]

15. And before the White House she worked with other R's

And Meadows did not join the W. H. until others resigned. Wonder whether she came with him

[Act_of_Reparation]

16. Why not?

I know plenty of dumb people over the age of 25.

[Rebl2]

17. Wasn't even

25 at the time was she? Made me think she is now 25.

[emulatorloo]

21. She wasn't his advisor.

[emmaverybo]

23. I don't understand how my doctors can all be 12 years old, how the other twelve year old

political analysts on tv know about 1950’s politics and everything that has happened in the world before and since.

[Jeebo]

32. You must be old, like me.

Emmaverybo, I am 72 and retired at the end of 2014. I worked for 45 years with college students, and in the later years they all looked like 12-year-olds to me. In fact, anybody under 40 looks like a junior high school kid to me. And yes, that includes a lot of doctors and lawyers and talking heads on TV. The whole time I was watching Cassidy Hutchinson today, I kept thinking, she can't possibly be as young as she looks. Are you and I showing a kind of ageism in those attitudes?

-- Ron

[emmaverybo]

36. Yes. And yes! I am 74. Also taught college. It is the confidence that stuns me. And how they,

particularly these 20 something’s (looking 12 years old) manage to know what they are talking about. Speed reading? Also so driven, focused. But then their parents started planning out their power careers at 2, reading to them before they were born.

[fightforfreedom]

25. She was very loyal, until they tried to over throw the country.

Loyal people move up quickly in Trump wonderland.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. My though is WOULD SHE STILL VOTE FOR HIM?

Not unprecedented.

[Claustrum]

33. I think you can bet 90% of them will vote for him again.

The only exception I can see are Liz Chaney and Adam Kissinger.

[Ferrets are Cool]

34. My gut says you are correct.

[pecosbob]

38. Why was Kashyap Patel ever appointed to any post, anywhere?

He cherry-picked the people he brought with him for having an axe to grind and no respect for the rule of law. By the end of his administration any credible people with government experience would no longer take his calls.

[AngryOldDem]

40. I don't think these WH jobs are as glamorous as they may appear.

I got the sense that she was an assistant to Meadows, probably one of many in the West Wing, who shuttled between the WH and the Capitol running errands. She just happened to be in the “right” place at the “right” time when all this went down.

[Beaverhausen]

43. She had already worked for Scalise and Cruz

she wasn't put in the Oval fresh out of college. Geez people didn't you pay attention?

[Totally Tunsie]

44. CH had more experience and background in her position

than Ms. Ivanka tRump had in hers as Special Advisor to the pResident. At least she had a couple of years of interning and working for Ted Cruz before being advanced to work for Meadows. She doesn't sound like a dummie.

[Hekate]

45. A person can be a college grad by 21 or 22. Her CV was given at the outset. She worked her way up

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… and was brought along to new positions when her bosses moved up. She’s obviously intelligent, poised, presentable. Very likely she knew someone who got her her first interview.

That’s not nefarious — it just highlights some of the advantages in life I never had, and presumably neither did you.