GOP warned subpoena of Cassidy Hutchinson could reveal ‘sexual texts’: report

House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly warned Republican lawmakers against subpoenaing the telephone records of cardinal Jan. 6 witnesser Cassidy Hutchinson, saying doing truthful could reveal “sexual texts” that mightiness embarrass immoderate of his colleagues.

Hutchinson served arsenic a whistleblower successful the bipartisan House Committee connected the Jan. 6 Attack that concluded “former President Donald Trump, whom galore others followed,” was liable for the deadly 2021 storming of the Capitol. Testimony from Hutchinson, a erstwhile adjutant to Republican White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, helped investigators scope that conclusion.

Since winning a House bulk successful 2022, Republicans led by Johnson and loyal to Trump person committed themselves to investigating those investigators. But erstwhile Johnson considered calling for Hutchinson’s telephone records successful June, an adjutant reportedly warned that Republicans mightiness not similar what helium finds.

The unnamed adjutant allegedly said aggregate colleagues had raised concerns with Johnson’s bureau that “sexual texts from [Congress] members who were trying to prosecute successful intersexual favors” with Hutchinson could beryllium recovered successful her phone, according to correspondence reviewed by the Washington Post.

In a consequent meeting, GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who was tapped to pb the probe into the Jan. 6 committee, was reportedly fixed that informing arsenic well. The sheet yet opted not to subpoena Hutchinson.

Largely dismissive of the Post’s story, Johnson said Thursday helium never advised Loudermilk not to subpoena Hutchinson, and that the scuttlebutt was “much ado astir nothing.” Loudermilk said the determination was made due to the fact that Hutchinson was already cooperating with the panel, according to The Hill.

What the perchance soiled substance messages involving Hutchinson mightiness accidental oregon who sent them isn’t clear. In speaking to the Post, her lawyer did not code whether immoderate specified texts exist.