(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department is reportedly seeking a criminal indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest.
The Washington Post and several other outlets have reported over the last few days that the DOJ is presenting its case against Hutchinson to a federal grand jury. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who leads a new Jan. 6 committee probing potential criminality stemming from the 2021 hearings, referred her for prosecution in March.
In 2024, Loudermilk released what he described as evidence indicating that Hutchinson “knowingly provided false testimony” regarding a handwritten note allegedly given to Trump on that day.
According to Loudermilk, Hutchinson claimed she wrote the note urging people at the Capitol to leave. However, then-Trump attorney Eric Herschmann said he was the actual author.
Hutchinson also repeated a secondhand, unsubstantiated account that Trump supposedly lunged toward the front of a presidential vehicle to force a Secret Service driver to take him to the Capitol. At the time, Trump’s lead Secret Service agent, Robert Engel, and the driver disputed that account, affirming in a transcribed interview that the lunging never occurred. The Jan. 6 Committee did not release these transcripts publicly.
Additionally, an investigation into Hutchinson implicates that then-January 6th Commission Vice Chair Liz Cheney, who secretly communicated with her during the proceedings, and may have pressured her to fire her attorney.
And if all that weren’t enough, according to the Post, members of Congress may have been “sexting” with Hutchinson.
“Multiple colleagues had raised concerns with the speaker’s office about the potential for public disclosure of ‘sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors’ with Hutchinson,” the Post reported in January 2025. “Separately, a member of [Mike] Johnson’s staff [said] that Hutchinson could ‘potentially reveal embarrassing information.’”
The specific details of the DOJ’s potential case are unclear, and it is not known whether any of these disputed accounts are included in it.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
