WASHINGTON — The Trump-aligned lawyer who initially represented former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson instructed her to downplay her knowledge of what happened during the Capitol insurrection, Hutchinson told the Jan. 6 committee in testimony made public Thursday.
"We're going to downplay your role," attorney Stefan Passantino told Hutchinson, according to her testimony. "You were a secretary ... the less you remember, the better."
The details of the apparent Trumpworld pressure campaign on one of the committee's key witnesses were among a number of revelations in a handful of deposition transcripts the committee made public Thursday. The panel's final report, the closing salvo of its 18-month-long investigation, has not yet been released.
