The E-mail Trail and Request for Pardons
or the misplaced assumption of fealty to Trump
Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Mark Meadows, Chief of Staff to Donald Trump, and and Johnny McEntee, a senior advisor to Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, were definitely out of their element. Young political aides usually are.
An email from Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) with the subject “Pardons” was sent to Meadows and others in the aftermath of the January 6th Insurrection. Despite their relative neophyte status, Cassidy and Johnny both made the connection.
Multiple members of Congress who had been working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, attorney John Eastman, and “Team Abnormal”1 within the Department of Justice were involved in the attack on the Capitol, the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and the bizarre plot to have Mike Pence to throw out electoral slates and replace them with fake electors.
Bizarre in the sense that no lawyer or legal scholar gave the plan any legal merit — which meant that anyone involved in the Insurrection was legally culpable. Cassidy Hutchison, Johnny McEntee, and Eric Hershmann, a senior advisor to Trump, all told the January 6th Committee during interviews that multiple members of Congress had reached out seeking pardons, including Mo Brooks (R-AL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
All of the above came out last week during hearings. As Adam Kinzinger point out at the end of the hearing “You ask for a pardon, if you have done something wrong."
Tomorrow, the Committee is holding an emergency hearing with Cassidy Hutchinson with heightened security. The progression after neophyte is adept and it is a progression she likely has already earned but will be tested Tuesday.
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