Cassidy Hutchinson shirks responsibility for failing to stop 'clearly irrational' Trump on Jan. 6: 'It wasn't my job'
Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson opened up about her thought process of gradually losing her loyalty to former President Donald Trump on MSNBC Wednesday, including how she felt in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack.
Hutchinson, who is releasing a book about her experiences, was ultimately responsible for bombshell testimony before the House January 6 Committee, and has recently come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Trump ally Rudy Giuliani.
"We've covered you for so long and I've watched all your interviews ... I find the beauty of the baring of your soul on every page, and I want to ask you what you spend a lot of time writing about and that's your family," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "Will you talk about that moment where your mom is — because at this point on January 6th you still planned to go to Mar-a-Lago, right?"
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"I did," said Hutchinson. "And it wasn't really until about two days before January 20th, Inauguration Day, that I was not going to move down to Florida. On January 6th my parents sort of had reservations about me moving to Florida once I made the decision to accept the president's offer. In that moment I knew what they were saying was true, and I knew that I should believe them."
"But there was that part of me that still felt that loyalty, and there's still a part of me as a loyal staffer in the administration that felt like January 6th was almost our fault," Hutchinson continued. "It was our fault for letting people around the president, people who are promoting these poisonous conspiracy theories, I felt it was our responsibility to stop January 6th from happening. And I felt that, you know, if I could go down to Florida and help relish whatever sort of legacy there was left to relish, that was still my job to help do so."
"Looking back now —and I think it's important to say in the book, too, though, I wrote the book in real time or at least I tried to write it real time and without points of reflection — looking back now I realize it's completely irrational and I should not have felt that way," added Hutchinson. "January 6th was the president's fault, and there were a series of enablers that helped it happen, but it wasn't my job and it was the wasn't of anybody else actually rational to stop what is clearly an irrational man, Donald John Trump."
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