Trump calls Jan. 6 committee’s star witness a ‘phony’ who asked him for a job

Former President Donald Trump dismissed the ex-White House aide who testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday as a leaker and a ‘phony’ whom he denied a job after his presidency ended. 

Mr. Trump said Cassidy Hutchinson, who served under former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, requested to join others from the president’s team in Florida after he left office, but he rejected her.

“Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible?” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I understand that she was very upset and angry that I didn’t want her to go, or be a member of the team. She is bad news!”

Mr. Trump also dismissed several claims she made about his behavior in the White House, including an episode where he threw his lunch out of anger and grabbed the steering wheel from a Secret Service officer after he was denied a trip to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.