Cassidy Hutchinson warns second Trump term wouldn’t have ‘guardrails’

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who became a star witness for the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, warns that a second term for President Trump would be more chaotic than the first one.

“I think that Donald Trump in a second term would not have guardrails,” Hutchinson said during a taped interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired Tuesday.

Hutchinson has been conducting her first media rounds since testifying about what was happening inside the White House after Trump lost the 2020 election to now-President Biden, as her book “Enough” was released Tuesday.

“I think for years we’ve not held Donald Trump accountable for the things he says,” she said of the 2024 GOP front-runner. “We need to take him seriously.”

Trump, who faces four criminal indictments, has denied any wrongdoing.

Before a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the certification of the presidential election, the then-president held a rally at the Ellipse near the White House.

“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump told the massive crowd of his supporters during the rally, urging them to march to the Capitol.

Hutchinson called the riot “un-American” but stayed with the Trump administration until he left office in January 2021 and says she was paid “months” beyond that. She said she had a reckoning with that decision, though she remains a Republican.

“We have to think, ‘what would a second Trump term look like?'” she said. “Who would work for Donald Trump in a second term? That’s the question that we should be asking ourselves going into this election season.”

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