WASHINGTON DC – Cassidy Hutchinson, the 26-year-old former aide to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s final chief of staff during his term as president, was not a household name in the United States before this week. But on Tuesday 28 June she testified before the select committee looking into the events surrounding the storming of the Capitol building on 6 January 2021.
The violence at the Capitol followed weeks of Trump pushing the lie that he, and not Joe Biden, was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, whipping his supporters into a frenzy. But could the committee show that Trump had played a direct role that day? Enough for him to be indicted?
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