Former Mark Meadows staffer Cassidy Hutchinson hires new attorney ahead of public Jan. 6 hearings

KATHERINE FAULDERS and JOHN SANTUCCI

9 June 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a member of Mark Meadows' staff when Meadows was Donald Trump's chief of staff, has hired Jody Hunt to represent her as the public Jan. 6 hearings begin, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.

At the start of the Trump administration, Hunt served as chief of staff to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Hunt later became the head of Department of Justice's Civil Division.

Members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack are actively negotiating with Hutchinson for her public testimony during the upcoming committee hearings, sources with knowledge of the matter told ABC News.

If Hutchinson agrees to appear publicly, she will put a voice to many of the interactions involving Jan. 6 that have been reported publicly, and offer significant insight into Meadows' actions and interactions with the former president on Jan. 6 and in the days before and after, the sources said.

During earlier depositions with the committee, Hutchinson confirmed to committee investigators accounts that Meadows had burned documents in his office, according to sources.

It was not immediately clear the contents of what Meadows is alleged to have burned, or whether his actions as described by witnesses constitute anything illegal.

ABC News previously reported that the committee is negotiating with former White House counsel Pat Cipollone for his public testimony. Should either Hutchinson or Cipollone agree to testify, it would mark the first witness to publicly appear before the committee who was physically in the West Wing on Jan. 6.

Politico was first to report Hunt's new role.

PHOTO: Attorney General Jeff Sessions departs with chief of staff Jody Hunt following a press conference at the Department of Justice on March 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Win Mcnamee/Getty Images, FILE)

How does this attorney Jody Hunt and Sessions recusal timeline line up?

These Q drops re Sessions and light are interesting in light of the comments made today by Trump and the J6 hearing.

>>16551166

Sauce

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/former-mark-meadows-staffer-cassidy-172000338.html

>>16551166

Interdasting there was a FF gunman who also had the name Jody Hunt.

West Virginia Gunman Jody Lee Hunt Dead After Four Killed: Police

The owner of a towing business killed four people at three locations before being found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/west-virginia-gunman-jody-lee-hunt-dead-after-four-killed-n259261

DOJ's Jody Hunt, Head of Key Division Defending Trump in Court, to Step Down

“It has been the greatest honor and privilege of my professional career to have served together with you (and many before you) for more than two decades,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt wrote in a message to the Justice Department’s civil division.

June 16, 2020 at 08:02 PM

A top U.S. Justice Department official who oversaw the legal defense of Trump administration policies, along with the White House’s broad refusal to respond to congressional oversight requests, plans to step down in early July.

In an email Tuesday to staff, Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said his resignation would take effect July 3, capping a more than two-decade career at the Justice Department spent largely in the division that handles civil litigation.

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/06/16/dojs-jody-hunt-head-of-key-division-defending-trump-in-court-to-step-down/?slreturn=20220528230412

>>16551166

Jody Hunt dig…

And now it gets interesting:

Trump’s Latest DOJ Nom Was At Key Meeting With Comey And Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, following Attorney general Chief of Staff Jody Hunt, left, arrives for a meeting with the heads of federal law enforcement components at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017.

The Justice Department aide who the White House announced Friday would be President Trump’s pick for a top DOJ position appears to have also been present at a key meeting between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then-FBI Director James Comey.

Jody Hunt, Sessions’ chief-of-staff at the Justice Department and Trump’s pick to be assistant attorney general of the department’s Civil Division, will have to go through a Senate confirmation process that will include a grilling by the Judiciary Committee. Among the things the committee members may want to ask him about was a meeting that occurred between Sessions and Comey in February.

The day after Trump pressured Comey to go easy on former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, Comey met with Sessions and was said to have told Sessions he did not want to be left alone with Trump again. In Comey’s account, he raised concerns about Trump telling everyone else, including Sessions, to leave the Oval Office after a counter-terrorism meeting, while asking to speak to Comey alone.

Comey was ultimately fired by Trump — a move now the focus of congressional and federal investigations.

Comey elaborated on his conversation with Sessions, first reported by the New York Times, in his blockbuster Senate Intel Committee testimony in June.

In his opening statement, Comey said he told Sessions “that what had just happened – him being asked to leave while the FBI Director, who reports to the AG, remained behind – was inappropriate and should never happen. ”

“He did not reply,” Comey said, adding that he did not mention that Trump had brought up Flynn.

During the Intel Committee’s questioning, Comey recalled Sessions “just kind of looking at me” with ” body language” that “gave me the sense like, what am I going to do?”

Sessions confirmed the February conversation with Comey in public testimony in front of the the Senate Intelligence Committee the week after Comey’s appearance there. However, Sessions said, that the discussion was more about the standard “rules on private conversations with the president” and that Comey gave him “no detail about what it was that he was concerned about.”

Sessions’ in his testimony disagreed with Comey’s account, noting that his chief-of-staff was present in the meeting and also remembered it Sessions’ way.

“I do recall—my chief of staff was with me, and we recall—that I did affirm the long-standing written policies of the Department of Justice concerning communications with the White House,” Sessions said.

A Sessions’ spokesperson did not respond to TPM’s inquiry about Hunt and the meeting.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/jody-hunt-comey-key-meeting-doj-nom

>>16551455

-Jody Hunt worked with and was close to Jeff Sessions.

• He was in the infamous meeting between Sessions and Comey about Trump.

-After 21 years, Jody Hunt left the DOJ Civil Div to go work for the law firm Alston & Bird in DC.-He works on their False Claims Act team

-He is now representing Cassidy Hutchinson at the J6 hearing. She is the former aid to Trumps former Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows.

-Anons know she is making false claims against Trump.

https://www.alston.com/en/services/practices/litigation/government–internal-investigations/false-claims-act

>>16551690

That is Matt Gaetz not Mark Meadows.