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Cassidy Hutchinson Still Loves Trump.
Cassidy Hutchinson claims to have written this book, as well as finding the courage and determination to come out against Trump, after getting to know Alex Butterfield, who had a staff position in the Nixon White House fairly similar to her position on Trump’s staff.
Butterfield, perhaps you are old enough to remember, was the guy who was called as a witness by the Watergate Committee in 1973 and revealed the existence of the taping system which became the story that broke the Nixon Presidency in half.
Nothing that Cassidy said in her testimony before the House Committee in its public hearings on what happened before and during January 6th had anywhere near the drama or impact of what Butterfield said about the White House tapes. On the other hand, Cassidy, like Butterfield, started out as a loyal supporter of a Republican President, only to find herself unable and unwilling to defend this President when the chips were down.
And that’s the real problem with this book, namely, the author doesn’t disclose anything that we already didn’t know, nor did she tell us anything particularly shocking or revelatory about Trump when she testified in front of the House January 6 Committee on national TV in June 2022.
What she didn’t discuss in front of the Committee was the fact that while Trump was delivering his…