Trump dismisses Hutchinson as 'bad news' during damning testimony

[speak easy]

Source: The Hill

Former President Trump on Tuesday dismissed the testimony from a former top aide to his chief of staff, saying he “hardly” knows who she is.

Trump weighed in on Truth Social, his fledgling social media network, in the middle of testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, who served in Trump’s Office of Legislative Affairs and later as a top aide to former chief of staff Mark Meadows, to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

“I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’), and when she requested to go with certain others of the team to Florida after my having served a full term in office, I personally turned her request down,” Trump posted.

“Why did she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible? 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!” Trump added.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3540006-trump-dismisses-hutchinson-as-bad-news-during-damning-testimony/

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I hardly know this person? Don't ya think that kinda stick is getting old?

[Thomas Hurt]

1. He doesn't know them, but he knows they are all bad news. Lying sack.

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. He heretofore will be designated the strangler.

Cretin.

[Srkdqltr]

3. Of course he says that.

[CincyDem]

4. There have been so many "I hardly knew him" people around Trump...

...that I can't even remember the original. All I remember is he had the additional distinction of "...used to get the coffee for meetings".

I guess that's a Hardly Knew Him with Distinction award.

[groundloop]

15. One of the earliest one I remember is Michael Cohen..... but there have been so many

When 45* says "I barely know who that person is, they were a nobody" it's pretty telling. He'd be a shitty poker player. It was especially significant that he claimed his own personal attorney was nothing more than an errand boy.

[unblock]

5. He's such a great leader and manager and boss he hires so many leakers and bad news people

How often does the media call him out on his obvious lies?

Yet again, someone says something damning and he trots out the same old lines. Hardly know them, just know them enough to know they're leakers/bad news/liars/etc., but I hired them and kept them on.

Same lies a spoiled 6-year old brat would think of but the media doesn't judge, they insist it's their solemn duty to propagate whatever lies republicans feel like propagating.

Of course, they'd bury any democrat who tried crap like that...

[SergeStorms]

18. Only the best people!

In this case he was correct, for once.

[slater71]

6. Notice how he has to say he served a full term in office.

Seems like he is trying to say he is a good boy because he served the full term.

[we can do it]

7. He's right. She IS bad news for him.

[global1]

8. Wasn't She In An Office Between Meadows Office & TFG's?.....

How could he not know her? He probably put some moves on her.

[ffr]

9. Convicted felon dismisses witness testimony as 'bad news'

FIXED

[thenelm1]

10. We've all heard the "I hardly knew this person" retort so many times now that...

it's meaningless drivel, but what I found more telling was how quickly he shot off the latest version of his standard refrain. He sent it out during a mid-session recess of the committee. He knew it was going to hurt and was dissing her while she was still testifying.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

11. "IF" Cassidy didn't know anything & the Orange Thing didn't know her personally her, just HOW

would the orange Babboon, (with my deepest apologies to Babboons), know that she's a "A PHONY & A LEAKER"? Asking for a friend.

[hadEnuf]

20. He knew her so little that he personally turned down her request to go to Mara-Rat-Hole?

He thinks everyone is as stupid as he is.

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

29. PREACH!

Tell it like it is!

[Rebl2]

12. He doesn't

know her?! Guess his dementia has really kicked in. Of course I don’t believe what he says because everything he says is a LIE!

[dchill]

13. Gonna have to agree with him. She IS bad news.

For HIM.

[C_U_L8R]

14. He can't refute the facts

So he attacks her.
And everyone sees how guilty he is.

[nuxvomica]

16. Curious evidence of what I call The Sociopath's Blindspot

He twists up this possible motive for Hutchinson's testimony, that she was angry because he didn't want to keep her on after he left office. Only a sociopath would think it plausible that a disgruntled ex-employee would take revenge by fabricating a detailed story about her ex-employer overthrowing the government. So TFG's blindspot is that his defense, while plausable to him, does not make sense to normal people. It will sound plausible to his followers, though.

[LaMouffette]

17. He would say the same thing if Melania ever divorced him: "I hardly knew her, but she is bad news!"

And:

"Why did she want to marry me if she felt I was so terrible!"

[question everything]

19. Me too. said John Dean. Nixon claimed he did not know who I was.

[KatyaR]

21. Did he know ANYBODY who worked for him?

At this point, I'm not sure if he even knows his own children (except Ivanka, I'm sure he knows Ivanka....).

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

22. I remember him calling Barron "Melania's kid".

[LiberalFighter]

23. Wouldn't there be a resume from her? Maybe he poured ketchup on it too.

[captain queeg]

24. Well Donnie, you can offer to testify under oath

Or are you saving that for the DOJ?

[Marthe48]

25. Hutchinson testified about what meadows and others did

more than what traitor did, although we learned a lot today about what a freaking pathetic loser traitor really is.

Now, can we undo the harm he did to s.co.t.u.s.? Or do we all have to live under this onerous burden of out of control, uneducated, unelected fascists?

[Torchlight]

26. Trump sure knows a lot about a person he claims to hardly know.

Regardless, Trump said something without value or merit. Again. His tantrums are getting pretty stale pretty fast these days, even his fleeced flock of fans are taking the offramp before arriving at So-Stupid-I'm-Not-Even-Embarrassed-I'm-That-Stupid Town.

[cloudboy07]

27. how about that truth social working out for ya' ?

sec & grand jury's ? they can be a pesk'y bunch ! wonder if ya hardly know them ?

[johnnyfins]

28. Sorry Fuckhead, she won.

Have another hamberder...

[duforsure]

30. He's looking at a 20 year prison sentence,

Of course he's going to lie , and deny, deny, deny, then attack her character, and redirect attention from his criminal acts. That's what he's always done.

[twodogsbarking]

31. He's rattled.

[The Blue Flower]

32. Notice he doesn't say she's a liar

Nowhere in this statement does he say her testimony wasn't accurate or true.