Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 27 Oct, 23:02 · Archive

A Washington grand jury has rejected prosecutors' request to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

A grand jury in Washington has rejected prosecutors' request to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant to Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows. The Justice Department's failure to secure an indictment came on Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Hutchinson provided dramatic testimony before a House committee investigating the 6 January 2021 Capitol insurrection. In her 2022 testimony at a hearing announced just 24 hours earlier, she described an angry, defiant Trump who wanted armed protesters to bypass security screenings at a rally that morning and who grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle when the Secret Service refused to take him to the Capitol. She also testified that Trump declined to intervene as events spiraled towards violence, with the crowd chanting 'Hang Mike Pence'.

Republican lawmakers had accused Hutchinson of lying under oath. Trump denied much of what she said on his social media platform, Truth Social. Details of the specific allegations prosecutors brought against Hutchinson were not immediately clear.

How it is being reported

• Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources sayPittsburgh Post-Gazette · 27 Oct, 22:39
• Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources sayWASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday failed to secure a grand jury indictment against a former White House staffer who provided dramatic but disputed testimony against President Donald Trump before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection, according to two people familiar with the matter.TribLIVE · 27 Oct, 22:15

In this story: Cassidy Hutchinson · Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Mike Pence · Joe Biden · Justice Department · Washington

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