The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into ex-Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress in testimony about the 45th president’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Post has learned. A federal grand jury was empaneled earlier this week to hear evidence and witness testimony about Hutchinson’s alleged false statements to lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said.
The investigation, under the auspices of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, was first reported by Punchbowl News, which also claimed Hutchinson has not yet received a subpoena to appear. It’s unclear what testimony is under scrutiny. Hutchinson, 29, served as a “star” witness for the House Select January 6th Committee that probed President Trump and his allies for actions leading up to the Capitol riot.
That investigation later fed into special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump in 2023 and 2024 for making knowingly false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Smith testified to a House panel last December that Hutchinson only provided “secondhand hearsay” and wouldn’t have been a reliable witness for his purposes. Hutchinson had previously testified in a made-for-TV hearing in June 2022 that Trump had screamed, “Take me up to the Capitol now!” and lunged at the wheel of his Secret Service-driven SUV, known as “the Beast,” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Hutchinson is the ex-Trump aide who rode the January 6th (esp. when it comes to Liz Checeny) coattails to left-wing fame by swearing under oath that Trump lunged at his limo driver that day. A fairy tale that would've been refuted by the limo driver had he been allowed to testify to the Democrat J6 committee. But he wasn't. And now some two years later Hutchinson may be in a little bit of a pickle for lying under oath about a note she said she wrote.
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