Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide whose testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was damaging to Donald Trump and others in the White House, will tell her story in a new memoir, the Associated Press reports.
Simon & Schuster will publish Hutchinson’s Enough later this year. The publisher describes the book as “a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington.”
Hutchinson was a 24-year-old assistant to Mark Meadows, then the White House chief of staff, when protestors stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The insurrectionists had been summoned by Trump, who falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
On June 28, 2022, Hutchinson delivered testimony to the Jan. 6 committee, claiming that Trump wanted to join the insurrectionists at the Capitol, but was denied by Secret Service officers, who instead drove him to the White House. She claimed that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the vehicle that was driving him in an effort to go to the Capitol.
Her book, Simon & Schuster says, is “the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience that more senior White House aides tried to evade and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of history.”
Enough is scheduled for publication on Sept. 26.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
