Court Ruling Bolsters Claim That Democrats’ ‘Star Witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson Lied Under Oath During Jan 6 Testimony– slaynews.com

A federal judge’s decision to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against attorney Andrew Weissmann has strengthened the claim that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson lied under oath during the congressional investigation into the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests.

Weissmann was sued by former Trump White House lawyer Stefan Passantino after accusing him of coaching Hutchinson to lie to Congress.

U.S. District Judge Loren L. Alikhan did not definitively rule that Passantino coached Hutchinson to lie.

However, she dismissed his lawsuit after concluding that he failed to establish a crucial element of defamation: that Weissmann’s accusation was false.

The 15-page opinion, issued Monday, highlighted exchanges in which Hutchinson asked whether she could deny recalling information she did remember, and later declared that she had lied.