DoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attack – The Guardian

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Cassidy Hutchinson told panel she had been told Trump lunged for wheel of SUV to try to join mob at Capitol Prosecutors in the justice department’s civil rights division are seeking criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top Trump White House aide who gave explosive testimony to the committee that investigated the US attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter. The potential charges involve lying to Congress, the person said. Hutchinson, a former top aide to the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, told the panel among other things that the deputy chief of staff for operations told her that Trump did not want to return to the White House on January 6 and at one point grabbed the wheel of his SUV to try to join supporters at the Capitol.

Republicans have long disputed this account. The justice department’s efforts to indict Hutchinson were first reported by Punchbowl News on Thursday. “The department does not confirm or deny the existence of investigations, or the lack thereof,” a department spokesperson said in a statement. In April, the New York