BREAKING NEWS
‘Things Might Get Real Real Bad’ Meadows Warned Top Aide on January 6, She Tells House Select Committee
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide and advisor to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows revealed to the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack that her boss had warned her of the apparent potential for violence on January 6.
Hutchinson, who worked for Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Steve Scalise before moving to the White House in 2018, says Meadows told her the morning of January 6 that “things might get real, real bad.”
Seven people present at the January 6 rally and/or insurrection died that day and in the days following.
Watch:
Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that Rudy Giuliani expressed excitement about Jan. 6 to her days before the event.
She then says she told Mark Meadows about her conversation with Giuliani, and he replied: “Things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6.” pic.twitter.com/3zaRcenrDx
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 28, 2022
UPDATE:
They knew there would be weapons, Hutchinson says.
Hutchison says Meadows reaction to the report of rioters carrying weapons was not to even look up from his phone. She said "all right anything else" still looking down at his phone.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 28, 2022
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