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WASHINGTON Former President Donald J. Trump's political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, raising legal and ethical questions about whether the former president may be influencing testimony with a direct bearing on him.
The arrangement drew new scrutiny this week after Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in his White House, made an explosive appearance before the House panel, providing damning new details about Mr. Trumps actions and statements on the day of the deadly riot.
She did so after firing a lawyer who had been recommended to her by two of Mr. Trumps former aides and paid for by his political action committee, and hiring new counsel. Under the representation of the new lawyer, Jody Hunt, Ms. Hutchinson sat for a fourth interview with the committee in which she divulged more revelations and agreed to come forward publicly to testify to them.
It is not known whether Ms. Hutchinsons change in counsel led directly to her willingness to appear at a televised hearing and provide a more detailed, wide-ranging account of what she witnessed, but some members of the panel believe that it played a role, according to two people familiar with the committees work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/us/trump-jan-6-lawyers-witness-pressure.html?
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(24,504 posts)captain queeg
(10,208 posts)And the possibility of them being charged with witness tampering. I guess they are the bottom feeders that the Lincoln Project talks about.
Scrivener7
(50,955 posts)"come to Jesus" testimony. Those who don't are just patsies who will fall for tfg. But his life is full of people like that so I don't doubt there will be plenty this time.
malaise
(269,054 posts)That is all