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Editorial: Cassidy Hutchinson’s courageous testimony should finally sever GOP fealty to Trump

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn-in as she testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022, in Washington, DC.

In a time of corrosive polarization and blinkered partisanship, America needed a dose of selflessness and courage. Cassidy Hutchinson provided it.

The former Trump White House aide pulled back the curtain on an unhinged president who cared only about self-image and self-preservation, a commander-in-chief willing to goad armed supporters to march on the Capitol because, as she quoted him as saying, “They’re not here to hurt me.”

She exposed Donald Trump for

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