In her new book “Enough,” former White House adviser Cassidy Hutchinson describes Donald Trump’s final days as even more chaotic and lawless than she previously revealed in her shocking televised testimony last summer.
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President Donald Trump strikes unpredictably and makes outlandish demands.
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is said to have passed on confidential documents to friends of the right-wing media company and burned documents. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani inappropriately groped Hutchinson on the day of the Capitol riot.
It also documents key Republican figures, including President Kevin McCarthy (pictured below), clearly announcing behind the scenes what they failed to tell the American people: that Joe Biden won the presidential election and Trump lost it.
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Evidence of a lack of integrity is present from the start. “Cass, if I can do this job and keep (Trump) out of prison, I’ve done a good job,” Meadows reportedly told Hutchinson in June 2020.
Hutchinson’s book details her meteoric rise from an idealistic Capitol Hill intern at the start of the Trump administration to an indispensable aide to the White House chief of staff during Trump’s final year in office.
Hutchinson, whose testimony before the committee on January 6 provided the most damning insider account of the ex-president’s actions – and lack of actions – describes his internal struggle over what transpired at the end of her reign and what she ultimately decided to do , to tell the story of what she experienced in the West Wing.
To listen to Hutchinson, Trump’s universe almost resembles a criminal organization where loyalty trumps everything. After a campaign rally in 2020, Meadows asked her: “Would you be willing to take a bullet for him?”
“Could it be the leg?” Hutchinson joked. Meadows responded that he would “do anything” to get Trump re-elected.
After Trump’s maskless indoor rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain contracted the virus and died.
“We killed Herman Cain,” Meadows told Hutchinson, asking for his wife’s phone number.
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A spokesman for Meadows disputed Hutchinson’s account in a statement to CNN. The spokesman said it was insulting to suggest that this was Meadows’ initial reaction to Cain’s death.
“In the days that followed, he expressed anger at the media accusing the president of being responsible for Mr. Cain’s death. Completely different,” said the spokesman.
This has done little to change the White House’s stance on face coverings. In fact, during a visit to an N-95 mask factory, Hutchinson advised Trump to take them off before facing the cameras because his bronzer got on the elastic. In another case, in the post-election excitement, visitors to the White House who tested positive for COVID were allowed in anyway because Trump insisted on meeting with them.
According to Hutchinson, these ethical principles were practiced during the election campaign. Meadows secretly met with former Hunter Biden aide Tony Bobulinski while shielded from the public with the help of Secret Service agents.
It wasn’t until after the election that Hutchinson began to really question the men she worked with. By then it was too late.
As Trump watched Giuliani’s famous press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters, he reportedly shouted, “Someone stop it!” Bring it down! Make him stop!”
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Unpredictable
However, she still has “nothing to blame the president for. I didn’t want to blame him. I was convinced that he should admit the choice and worried that we would surround him with people who would encourage his more impulsive behavior. I knew things could get out of control quickly.”
Meadows appears in the book not only as a fraud, but also as a scapegoat for people who don’t want to admit that Trump has lost control of reality. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe expressed concern about the president’s unpredictability, noting that in one moment he “realizes he’s lost and then immediately backs down.”
McCarthy told Hutchinson the same thing. They both blamed Meadows. After the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bizarre lawsuit filled with lies and misrepresentations about the election, Trump challenged Meadows: “Why didn’t you make more calls?” We had to do more. …We can’t let it stay like this.”
Trump continued: “I don’t want people to know we lost, Mark. It’s embarrassing. Understand it. Even as Meadows assured Trump he would work on it, Hutchinson’s anger was directed at Meadows for giving Trump false hope, rather than at Trump for demanding his illusions come true.”
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Hutchinson’s claim that Trump admitted to Meadows that he lost the election is the latest in a series of eyewitness accounts in which he regularly privately admits that he lost the election. Hutchinson testified before both federal investigators and the Fulton County grand jury, she wrote, although she was not mentioned in any of Trump’s indictments.
Towards the end, Hutchinson describes a White House that descended into complete anarchy, with Meadows regularly burning documents in the fireplace of the Chief of Staff’s office. After Meadows’ office filled with smoke before a meeting, former Republican House Speaker Devin Nunes asked Hutchinson, “How often does he burn papers?”
Meadows denies everything
When Meadows’ wife came to help him clean up his office in January 2021, she pleaded with Hutchinson that “Mark doesn’t have to burn anything else. All his costumes smell like a campfire.”
Meadows’ spokesman said Hutchinson’s comments were an “absurd and misinterpretation.”
On that crazy day of December 18, 2020, as Trump was in the Oval Office considering proposals to confiscate voting machines, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato told Hutchinson that he “heard the President talking about the Insurrection Act or martial law have”. ” She wrote.
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Of course, those plans didn’t come to fruition and Trump looked for other ways to reverse his election defeat, pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,870 votes to flip the Peach State from Biden to Trump.
“That call was not good,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone told Meadows, according to Hutchinson, who writes that Cipollone overheard the call. When Cipollone testified under oath before the committee on January 6 last year, he said he did not remember knowing about the call until he heard about it in the press.
In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for Cipollone denied participating in the Georgia call and noted that Cipollone was not among the people Meadows introduced at the start of the call.