The Justice Department is investigating former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress in her testimony to the House Jan. 6 Committee in 2022.
Hutchinson’s testimony before the defunct House select committee in June 2022, which included some of the most damaging accounts about President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, has been disputed by other witnesses. The DOJ is investigating Hutchinson, a source familiar with the situation confirmed to the Washington Examiner, but the source did not say whether subpoenas have been drawn up.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division brought evidence to a federal grand jury earlier this week on charges of lying to Congress and will present additional evidence and witnesses later this month, according to a Thursday report from Punchbowl News. It is unclear when a decision on an indictment of Hutchinson from a grand jury could come.
Earlier this year, the Justice Department began its inquiry into Hutchinson.
Hutchinson was a key part of the House Jan. 6 Committee’s investigation into Trump’s actions during and leading up to the 2021 Capitol riot, offering some of the most vivid and disputed accounts of the president’s conduct on the day of the riot.
One of the most widely shared anecdotes from Hutchinson, who on Jan. 6, 2021, served as an aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, was the claim that Trump lunged at the steering wheel in a presidential vehicle and tried to take control of it after being told he could not accompany a crowd of his supporters as they marched to the Capitol building. Several witnesses and a House GOP report released in 2024 have disputed the credibility of that story.
JAN. 6 COMMITTEE WITNESS CASSIDY HUTCHINSON UNDER DOJ CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION
The House of Representatives impeached Trump for his alleged incitement of the riot in January 2021, but the Senate later acquitted him. The president has denied any wrongdoing for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and has rejected claims that he incited a riot at the Capitol.
After returning to office in January 2025, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of the Jan. 6 rioters who were charged and convicted under the Biden administration.