Thanks New York Times

June 29, 2022

As soon as Cassidy Hutchinson finished testifying before the Jan. 6 committee yesterday, I wrote the following letter. I emailed it to the N.Y. Times at 1:15 p.m. Three hours later, it appeared online. My understanding is this letter will be published in the paper tomorrow. You gotta love the Internet.

‘Thank You, Cassidy Hutchinson’: Drama at the Jan. 6 Hearings

Reaction to the White House aide’s testimony before the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

June 28, 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to Mark Meadows, President Donald J. Trump’s chief of staff, testified before a House committee in a surprise hearing on Tuesday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

To the Editor:

Re “Witness Details Trump’s Rage and Meadows’s Inaction on Jan. 6” (Live updates, nytimes.com, June 28):

Thank you, Cassidy Hutchinson, for testifying before the Jan. 6 committee. History will remember you just as it has the former White House counsel John Dean, whose testimony helped bring down Richard Nixon nearly 50 years ago.

If only your former boss, the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, as well as Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman — all of whom reportedly sought presidential pardons for their roles leading up to the insurrection at the Capitol — had your guts. Americans who believe in the rule of law and the Constitution are indebted to you, Ms. Hutchinson.

Denny Freidenrich
Laguna Beach, Calif.