Hutchinson alleges Meadows’s suits smelled ‘like a bonfire’ from burning documents

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson says in a new book that former chief of staff Mark Meadows’s suits smelled “like a bonfire” from burning documents so often after the 2020 election. 

The Associated Press obtained a copy of Hutchinson’s book, “Enough,” ahead of its release Tuesday in which she described the burning of papers. Hutchinson, who worked for Meadows in the Trump administration, was one of the key witnesses who testified for two hours before a House panel about events in the White House leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol. 

Hutchinson wrote in her new book that Meadows wanted a fire burning in his office every morning starting mid-December of 2020. She added that when she would bring him a package or lunch, she “would sometimes find him leaning over the fire, feeding papers into it, watching to make sure they burned.”

Hutchinson also wrote that former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.) asked her to open the windows in Meadows’s office one time because it was smoky when Nunes went to meet with Meadows. She said that she also warned Meadows he may set off the fire alarm.