Hutchinson: ‘Responsibility of all Americans right now’ to have tough conversations about the dangers of a second Trump term

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson warned Americans Wednesday that a second term for former President Trump could pose a threat to the country.  

“But I also do not want to sit here and catastrophize a scenario where he is actually the Republican nominee,” she said in an interview with “PBS NewsHour.” “I think it is the responsibility of all Americans right now, to have an actual conversation and took to provoke difficult conversations about the dangers of Donald Trump and what I would fear most about second Trump term.”

Hutchinson came out with her new book titled “Enough” this week, where she detailed her experiences working in the Trump White House. She described instances of former chief of staff Mark Meadows burning documents in the fireplace in his office and also alleged that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani groped her during the former president’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally.

She said that she did not want to go to Meadows to ask him about the burning of the documents, saying that she was not sure if it would have changed anything.

“Mark Meadows was a grown man,” she said in the interview. “And I had a job and my job had a purpose, but my purpose of my job was not to police and control every single one of his actions. Looking back now, should I have said something? Possibly. But would that have changed anything? I don’t know.”

In her Wednesday interview, she also described a “suffocating” environment during her time in the White House and being aligned to former President Trump.

“I was actually I was very vocal about that after January 6. And — but I also still felt that lingering sense of loyalty to Donald Trump to the administration, but I spent a year and a half, overcoming that. And that’s how I ultimately that’s really why I decided to write the book is because I wanted people to understand that,” she said.