Cassidy Hutchinson: Trump has a 'very potent fear of being poisoned'
In her new book, "Enough," Cassidy Hutchinson — a former aide to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and one of the key witnesses for the bipartisan January 6 Select Committee in 2022 — looks back on the final weeks of the Trump Administration and her reasons for distancing herself from Trumpworld.
The conservative Republican, who now believes that former President Donald Trump poses a major threat to U.S. democracy, has been making a lot of media appearances. During a Wednesday night, October 4 appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Hutchinson recalled that when she was working in the Trump White House, the then-president feared that someone would try to poison him.
Hutchinson told host Kimmel, "He does have a very potent fear of being poisoned…. He uses and prefers the small Heinz glass ketchup bottles, because he likes to hear his valet or whoever's serving him his meal, he likes to hear the pop."
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Kimmel joked, "Really? I thought it was because his hands are so little…. You think he got this fear of being poisoned from all the ex-wives?"
Hutchinson also recalled Trump's refusal to listen to his advisers.
The former Meadows aide told Kimmel, "I think some people were naïve that when you tell him not to do something, he's going to want to do it more…. He's still tweeting out profanities and threatening to kill former (Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman) Mark Milley."
In an article published by The Hill on October 5, journalist Tara Suter described the Kimmel interview and some of the revelations Hutchinson has made in other interviews. During a late September appearance on "CBS News Sunday Morning," Hutchinson recalled that after she testified before the January 6 Select Committee, she left Washington, D.C. because she feared for her safety and "ended up moving down to Atlanta for several months."
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Read The Hill's full article here; watch the video of Cassidy Hutchinson's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" appearance below or at this link.
