Former Trump White Home lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming {that a} handwritten notice concerning a possible assertion for then-President Donald Trump to launch throughout the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was written by him throughout a gathering on the White Home that afternoon, and never by White Home aide Cassidy Hutchinson, sources acquainted with the matter inform ABC Information.
At Tuesday’s Jan. 6 committee listening to, Rep. Liz Cheney displayed a handwritten notice which Hutchinson testified she wrote after Trump chief of workers Mark Meadows handed her a notice card and pen to take his dictation.
Sources acquainted with the matter stated that Herschmann had beforehand advised the committee that he had penned the notice.
“The handwritten notice that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in actual fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” a spokesperson for Herschmann advised ABC Information Tuesday night.
“All sources with direct information and legislation enforcement have and can verify that it was written by Mr. Herschmann,” the spokesperson stated.
At Tuesday’s listening to, Hutchinson, testifying concerning the notice, stated, “That is a notice that I wrote on the path of the chief of workers on Jan. 6, possible round 3 o’clock.”
“And it is written on the chief of workers notice card, however that is your handwriting, Ms. Hutchinson?” Rep. Cheney requested.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White Home Chief of Employees Mark Meadows throughout the administration of former President Donald Trump, arrives to testify throughout a public listening to of the Home Choose Committee to analyze the January 6 Assault on the Capitol, on Capitol Hill, June 28, 2022.
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“That is my handwriting,” Hutchinson replied.
Hutchinson, a former prime aide to Meadows, stated that Meadows handed her the notice card and a pen and began dictating a possible assertion for Trump to launch amid the Capitol riot.
Hutchinson additionally stated that Herschmann had steered altering the assertion and to “put ‘with out authorized authority.'”
In response to Herschmann’s declare, a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee stated, “The committee has executed its diligence on this and located Ms. Hutchinson’s account of this matter credible. Whereas we perceive that she and Mr. Herschmann might have differing recollections of who wrote the notice, what’s finally essential is that each White Home officers believed that the President ought to have instantly instructed his supporters to go away the Capitol constructing.”
“The notice memorialized this,” the committee spokesperson stated. “However Mr. Trump didn’t take that motion on the time.”
The Jan. 6 committee has repeatedly relied on Herschmann’s candid and generally vulgar testimony all through the hearings in June, together with when the previous White Home lawyer testified that he shot down former Trump Justice Division official Jeffrey Clark’s plan to overturn the 2020 election.
Herschmann, a former Trump White Home lawyer, additionally defended former President Trump throughout Trump’s first impeachment trial and labored within the West Wing as a senior adviser.
An lawyer for Hutchinson didn’t reply to a request for remark from ABC Information, nor did Meadows.
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