Monday, Republicans on the Oversight Subcommittee for House Administration demanded in a letter to Cassidy Hutchinson, the key witness for the Jan. 6 Committee, that she preserve and produce all documents and materials pertaining to the January 6 events that she possesses.
Initially, a copy of the letter was obtained by The Daily Caller; it was authored by Georgia Chairman Barry Loudermilk, as The Daily Caller reported.
Loudermilk requested that Hutchinson furnish the subcommittee with any and all documents, communications, electronic information, and metadata that are or may be associated with her various testimonies concerning January 6 and the United States Capitol attack investigated by the Select Committee on January 6.
“On June 28, 2022, you testified during one of the Select Committee’s primetime hearings. During this hearing you asserted that former President Donald Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel from one United States Secret Service employee driving the vehicle and lunged at another,” Loudermilk wrote in the letter.
“However, in your previous three transcribed interviews on February 23, 2022, March 7, 2022, and May 17, 2022, you did not mention this interaction.
"You subsequently testified that you spoke with Alyssa Farah Griffin in order to orchestrate the third interview with the Select Committee on May 17th without your attorney’s knowledge. Despite this, you did not recount this attention-grabbing series of events during the May 17th interview,” he continued.
“This letter serves as formal notice and instruction to preserve and produce all documents, communications, and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is or may be responsible to this congressional inquiry.
"This includes all materials you previously turned over to the Select Committee. This instruction includes all electronic messages sent using official and personal accounts or devices, including records created using text messages, phone-based message applications, or encryption software,” he adds in the letter.
“For purposes of this letter, ‘preserve’ includes taking reasonable steps to prevent the partial or full destruction, alteration, deletion, shredding, wiping, relocation, migration, theft, mutation, or any negligent or reckless handling that could affect the records or materials.
"This includes all records, notes, or documents prepared by you for interviews with the Select Committee or the Department of Justice.”
Before sending the letter, Loudermilk told journalists that her actions are “deeply concerning” and that he will issue a subpoena if she does not provide the unredacted documents.
“Cassidy Hutchinson’s sudden and substantive changes to her testimony are inconsistent with previous statements she’s made publicly and to the January 6 Select Committee. Her actions are deeply concerning and raise serious questions about her credibility,” Loudermilk said.
“If she refuses to provide us with these documents, I will not hesitate to subpoena her for further questioning,” Loudermilk added.
Following her testimony before the committee on January 6, Hutchinson made headlines for claiming that former President Donald Trump reached for the wheel to divert the vehicle to the Capitol, where demonstrators were assembling. The Secret Service has refuted her allegations, according to reliable sources.
