FOIA Documents: Madison Cornbread (Government Name: Cassidy Hutchinson) Continued Working for Trump For Nine Weeks After Her Supposed Revulsion at January 6

Madison Cornbread said something to the effect of, "Show me the money."

Not really. That's a callback to her constant claims that all the hearsay statements she put into the mouths of people were "something to the effect of" this or that.

* Insider sued the Biden administration for records identifying Trump's post-presidency staff members.

* Cassidy Hutchinson kept working for Trump after he left the White House, new documents indicate.

* Hutchinson provided dramatic anti-Trump testimony before the House's January 6 select committee.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide who emerged as a star witness for the US House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, continued working on the former president's behalf for nine weeks after he left office, according to government records exclusively obtained by Insider.

Hutchinson served as a "coordinator" for Trump's official, taxpayer-funded, post-presidential office from about January 20, 2021, to April 1, 2021, earning an annualized salary of $90,000, the General Services Administration documents state.

The documents establish that Hutchinson continued to earn a government paycheck for work in support of Trump for weeks after she witnessed his actions -- and lack of action -- on January 6, even as other colleagues resigned soon thereafter.

Hutchinson's whereabouts immediately after January 6 has been the subject of considerable scrutiny and uncertainty. Bloomberg reported days after the attack that Hutchinson might join Trump in Florida, but Trump has said he hardly knew her and turned her down. The Washington Post in June reported that Hutchinson did not have a full-time job after her White House tenure ended.

"Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible?" Trump wrote on Truth Social after Hutchinson's testimony last month. "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!"

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"As an American, I was disgusted. It was unpatriotic. It was un-American," Hutchinson, who served as a trusted aide to the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified before the January 6 committee on June 28. "We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie. And it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest knowing what I'd been hearing down the hall in the conversations that were happening."

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Hutchinson and her lawyers did not respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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Insider, which initially filed its FOIA requests in early 2021, said the Biden administration-led GSA was in violation of federal law by failing to publicly release a full accounting of staff members for the post-presidency offices of both Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence.

While the GSA has since released some staffers' names, it continues to withhold others. Until now, Hutchinson's identity was among those withheld.

They say they're releasing her records now because the publicity she's received (after seeking it, of course) means that her records are now of public interest, which seems fair enough.

Though they became public interest the moment she testified.

They slow-rolled this in order to blunt its impact.

posted by Ace at 01:19 PM

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