In a time of corrosive polarization and blinkered partisanship, America needed a dose of selflessness and courage. Cassidy Hutchinson provided it.
The former Trump White House aide pulled back the curtain on an unhinged president who cared only about self-image and self-preservation, a commander-in-chief willing to goad armed supporters to march on the Capitol because, as she quoted him as saying, “They’re not here to hurt me.”
She exposed Donald Trump for what he is — a dangerous narcissist who imperiled not only the lives of lawmakers, staffers and police at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but democracy itself.