Hutchinson on Trump’s tweet condemning Pence amid Capitol riot: ‘As an American, I was disgusted’
At Tuesday's public hearing of the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to chief of staff Mark Meadows, said, “We were watching the Capitol get defaced over a lie.”
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LIZ CHENEY: President Trump's view that the rioters were not doing anything wrong and that, quote, "Mike deserved it" helps us to understand why the president did not ask the rioters to leave the Capitol for multiple hours. In fact, he put this tweet out at 2:24 PM. Ms. Hutchinson, do you recall seeing this tweet in which the president said the vice president did not have the courage to do what needed to be done?
CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: I do.
LIZ CHENEY: And, Ms. Hutchinson, what was your reaction when you saw this tweet?
CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: As a staffer that works to always represent the administration to the best of my ability and to showcase the good things that he had done for the country, I remember feeling frustrated, disappointed. And really, it felt personal. I was really sad.
As an American, I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic. It was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie. And it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest knowing what I'd been hearing down the hall in the conversations that were happening, seeing that tweet come up and knowing what was happening on the Hill. And it's something that I-- I still struggle to work through, the emotions of that.
