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https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/30/jan-6-hutchinson-meadows-mystery-messages-00043638New details of Jan. 6 panel's mystery messages emerge
Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the committee she was contacted by an intermediary for Mark Meadows, according to a person familiar with her final deposition.
By Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney
06/30/2022 06:54 PM EDT
The Jan. 6 select committee publicly pointed to two communications this week as potential evidence of Trump-worlds efforts to influence witness testimony without revealing their origin. Both were detailed to the panel by Cassidy Hutchinson, according to a person familiar with the last of her four depositions.
Both of the two slides that the panel revealed at the end of its live hearing with Hutchinson reflected conversations she described to the committee in her final closed-door deposition, this person said. Hutchinson told the committee at the time that, on the eve of her earlier March 7 deposition, an intermediary for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows contacted her to say that her former boss valued her loyalty.
[A person] let me know you have your deposition tomorrow, read a slide that the Jan. 6 committee broadcast at the end of Hutchinsons hearing, which Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) characterized as pressure on a key witness. He wants me to let you know that hes thinking about you. He knows youre loyal, and youre going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.
Meadows is the person whose name was redacted in that slide. Contents of that final deposition were described to POLITICO, which could not independently corroborate the identity of the intermediary or that Meadows directed any message be delivered to Hutchinson before her second deposition.
The other slide the Capitol riot committee unveiled at the end of its hearing with Hutchinson this week quoted an unnamed witness, now known to be the former Trump White House aide herself, describing multiple phone calls she received from allies of the former president.
What they said to me is as long as I continue to be a team player, they know Im on the right team, the slide said. Im doing the right thing. Im protecting who I need to protect, you know, Ill continue to stay in good graces in Trump World. And they have reminded me a couple of times that Trump does read transcripts.
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New details of Jan. 6 panel's mystery messages emerge (Original Post)
dalton99a
Jun 2022
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Beachnutt
(7,324 posts)1. Clearly witness intimidation,
when do the arrest begin ?
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)2. I'm calling "BULLSHIT!"
Trump cant even read a National Security update unless it has pictures
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