Today, Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who is the head of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, released text messages that Cheney, who was vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 select committee at the time, and Cassidy Hutchinson, who was Mark Meadows’s assistant in the White House during the Trump administration, sent and received in 2022.
Among other things, Hutchinson said in her evidence that after his speech on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, Trump jumped up and grabbed the wheel of the presidential limousine, saying he wanted to go to the Capitol.
The woman who made the comments wasn’t in the limousine at the time, according to a news release from Loudermilk. She got them from other people.
The driver for the Secret Service denied what she said in front of the committee on January 6; he said, “I did not see him reach […]. Trump never put his hands on the driving wheel. You know, I didn’t see him try to jump into the front seat at all.”
Loudermilk went on to say, “In the months before Hutchinson’s explosive private and public testimony, Cheney talked to her both directly and through an intermediary—Alyssa Farah Griffin—who is now a co-host on “The View” and used to work for Trump and is now an assistant to Griffin. Hutchinson was represented by her lawyer, Stefan Passantino.”
The Select Committee talked to Hutchinson six times and wrote down what they said. For the first three conversations, Passantino spoke for Hutchinson.
After her third appearance in front of the committee, Hutchinson sent Cheney a message through the private text app Signal, but her lawyer didn’t know about it.
