From page 322 of Enough, Hutchinson's fascinating memoir, as she was questioned by Liz Cheney, co-chair of the Select Committee investigating January 6,
"Let's turn now to what happened in the president's vehicle when the Secret Service told him he would not be going to the Capitol after his speech."
I've prepared for the question. I understand the effect my answer will have. I'm ready, even though I had been in a panic in the holding room about this moment, fearing I would screw it up, and dreading, too, the thought of hurting people I care about. I remember that when Tony [Ornato] was describing what had happened, that old rationalization excusing Trump's bad behavior was playing in the back of my mind: Why had people let it go so far? Until I shared this information with the committee, I hadn't told anyone else about it except for giving Mark [Meadows] and, later, Stefan [Passantino, Hutchinson's Trump World attorney] an abbreviated version. It had taken me three or four attempts to tell Jody [Hunt with Alston & Bird her attorney after cutting ties with Passantino]
Early on in Hutchinson's recollection of her life and experience in the Trump administration, she gives clues on her allegiance to Republican politics, including from her early childhood days. However, she drops more, subtle, clues to her independent mindset which defined her willingness to look beyond what had to be overwhelming peer pressure to betray genuinely American patriotic ideals. How could she continue to favor an ill-suited narcissist who she finally realized was destroying democracy and the constitutional order?
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