House Republicans investigating the Jan. 6 attack have asked former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson to hand over her communications with the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol riot.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chair of the House Administration subcommittee on oversight, asked the former aide to Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows to provide all of her communications through this month with former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and several former White House officials, reported NBC News.
“[The Jan. 6 committee] failed to properly archive their records, including as many as 900 interview summaries or transcripts, over one terabyte of digital data, and over 100 deleted or encrypted documents," Loudermilk wrote in the letter. “The Subcommittee has no choice but to repeat much of the work of the Select Committee to understand their investigative findings."
Loudermilk and other House Republicans have tried to downplay the Jan. 6 attack and discredit Hutchinson, a star witness in the select committee's public hearings, and the GOP request seeks her communications with Meadows, former White House deputy chief of staff Anthony Ornato, former White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann, former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, now a co-host of ABC's "The View."
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House Republicans also asked for communications regarding the publication of her best-selling book, "Enough," which covers the events of Jan. 6.
Hutchinson’s attorney had previously described Loudermilk's requests as a "pressure campaign" to "silence" a potential witness in Trump's criminal trial in Washington, D.C., where he was indicted on federal felony charges for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Loudermilk's panel released an 81-page report that Republicans say discredits Hutchinson's dramatic account of Trump's actions on the day his supporters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers certified Joe Biden's election win.
