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ABC News:
Trump White House attorney disputes Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about handwritten note  —  Hutchinson testified before the House Jan. 6 committee Tuesday.  —  Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement …
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New York Times:
Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage  —  A “stunning two hours” raises fears of political and legal consequences for the former president.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — Devastating new testimony by a former White House aide describing …
David French / The Dispatch:
The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger  —  New testimony may have produced a smoking gun.  —  I confess that I've been skeptical that the January 6 committee would produce evidence that Donald Trump was directly criminally responsible for the attack on the Capitol.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A lawyer for Virginia Thomas said she would not testify to the House panel.  —  A lawyer for Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a supporter of President Donald J. Trump's efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election, told the House select committee investigating …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony against Trump Is Devastating  —  Things will not be the same after this.  —  Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided compelling testimony Tuesday that former president Donald Trump is singularly culpable for the Capitol riot.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Federalist
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump?  —  There's a saying among cult experts: Nobody ever joins a cult.  —  Of course, people join what, to outsiders, certainly appear to be cults — the Branch Davidians, the Moonies, the Peoples Temple and so on.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency?  —  In the last few minutes of today's January 6 committee hearing, Representative Liz Cheney presented evidence of possible witness intimidation.  Several witnesses, she reported, had received messages from shadowy persons purportedly close …
Discussion: The Guardian
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson  —  The witness called him “sir.”  When Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday afternoon, she addressed Chairman Bennie G. Thompson with a word that afforded him respect as a man, not merely as an official.
Discussion: Fox News
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony Should Be the End of Donald Trump  —  Regardless of the legal obstacles to convicting the former President, Hutchinson's testimony reconfirmed that he must never again be allowed anywhere near power.  —  On Tuesday morning, Hunter Biden started trending on social media …
Discussion: Associated Press and ABC News
CBS News:
Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony  —  The U.S. Secret Service will have more to say to the Jan. 6 House select committee after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony Tuesday regarding former …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman drops bid to block phone records from Jan. 6 committee  —  John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump's last-ditch bid to subvert the 2020 election, has dropped a lawsuit aimed at blocking the Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his phone records.
Discussion: Raw Story, CBS News, Bloomberg and Insider
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Cassidy Hutchinson Held Their Manhoods Cheap  —  They all knew.  But only the 26-year-old staffer would testify about it under oath.  —  This afternoon a 26-year-old former assistant showed more courage and integrity than an entire administration full of grown-ass adults who were purportedly working …
Discussion: Denver Post
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Jan. 6 Committee Produces a Very Special Episode  —  At a surprise appearance, a White House aide tells a jaw-dropping story of broken dishes and fragile democracy.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The Jan. 6 committee's hearings have a lot in common with scripted TV mini-series …
Gabby Orr / CNN:
‘This is a bombshell’: Trump aides left speechless by Hutchinson testimony  —  (CNN)Aides to former President Donald Trump were left speechless amid the first half of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday, acknowledging to CNN that her testimony was “a bombshell” with potentially huge repercussions for Trump.
Politico:
Former White House aide delivers shocking testimony about out-of-control Trump on Jan. 6
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Most Damning January 6 Testimony Yet
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Republicans Are Trying to Cover Up the Greatest Political Scandal in American History
Wall Street Journal:
More Testimony on Trump's Jan. 6 Tirade
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's had bad moments, but few worse than Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
Politico:
How the Jan. 6 panel's star witness drew a roadmap for Trump's culpability
Washington Post:
Cassidy Hutchinson's path from trusted insider to explosive witness
Discussion: New York Times, WTOP News, MSNBC and SHERO
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Attorney For Ginni Thomas Says There's No Reason For Her To Speak To Jan. 6 Panel
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:
NATO poised to take historic action on strategy, enlargement, and Ukraine  —  ‘A HISTORIC AND TRANSFORMATIVE SUMMIT’: Leaders of the 30 NATO nations gathered in Madrid, Spain, are transforming the alliance to focus on the threat from Russia, preparing to add two new members on Russia's periphery …
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Associated Press:
US to boost military presence in Europe for Russia threat
Ariana Garcia / Houston Chronicle:
Attorney General Ken Paxton says he will defend Texas sodomy law if Supreme Court revisits Lawrence vs. Texas  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton last week seemingly expressed support for the Supreme Court potentially overturning past rulings on cases involving the LGBTQ community following the downfall of Roe v. Wade on Friday.
Washington Post:
Tens of thousands of monkeypox vaccines rushed to clinics  —  White House pushes new strategy as cases climb  —  The Biden administration will begin sending out tens of thousands of vaccine doses to clinics nationwide in an effort to control a record U.S. monkeypox outbreak that many experts …
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Rep. Sean Casten defeats AOC ally Rep. Marie Newman in Illinois Democratic congressional primary  —  Illinois 6th District race pitted two sitting House Democrats against each other due to redistricting  —  Voter panel: Issues on the minds of voter before primary elections
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Travis Waldron / HuffPost:
GOP Election Denier Tina Peters Loses Colorado Secretary Of State Primary  —  The Mesa County clerk who was under indictment for tampering with voting machines lost to a Republican who acknowledged the 2020 vote was legitimate.  —  Pam Anderson, a Republican who acknowledged that Joe Biden …
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Giuliani on Defensive After Uproar Over Assault Claim  —  Two days after Rudy Giuliani claimed a worker had assaulted him at a Staten Island supermarket, the once-vaunted former mayor was spending Tuesday morning like many men his age: complaining about his aches and pains.
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New York Post:
Eric Adams says Rudy Giuliani may have filed a phony report in SI ‘assault’ — ex-mayor responds: ‘go f-k’ yourself
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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