Former President Donald Trump trotted out his greatest hits of disparaging rebukes on Thursday against ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whose testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S.
Capitol provided bombshell after bombshell.Calling her a “whack job” and repeatedly claiming he “hardly knew her,” Trump accused Hutchinson of fabricating every single part of her sworn testimony.Hutchinson, a former top White House aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, spoke Tuesday about the behind-the-scenes chaos of the West Wing on and around January 6.
Some of the most talked about details were that Trump was aware things might turn violent on January 6, that he allowed rally attendees to be armed, and that he attempted to force his security detail to take him to the Capitol to join the rioters.
Then, of course, there was #ketchup.Related: Rudy Giuliani tries to attack Hutchinson testimony, fails miserably and appears to self-incriminateMany viewers pointed out Trump’s visibly distressed demeanor as he scrambled to distance himself from Hutchinson’s damning remarks.“Some whack job can say this stuff and get away with it, and other things, that I wanted guns at my rally.