Stefan Passantino
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I had been very publicly fired because I was a Trump lawyer and she had put out very publicly, I want to testify. I don't feel comfortable having this Trump lawyer. All fair. I mean, that's perfectly her right to do. And then she had given this very dramatic testimony that had been refuted by people who were physically there.
I was representing another witness, another very junior witness who had been working in the White House on January 6th, who had been very closely interrelating with the operations people. This is in, so you imagine those, that testimony happened in say June that she testified live on TV. In July, a month after this had happened, I'm still representing witnesses before the committee.
I was representing another witness, another very junior witness who had been working in the White House on January 6th, who had been very closely interrelating with the operations people. This is in, so you imagine those, that testimony happened in say June that she testified live on TV. In July, a month after this had happened, I'm still representing witnesses before the committee.
I was representing another witness, another very junior witness who had been working in the White House on January 6th, who had been very closely interrelating with the operations people. This is in, so you imagine those, that testimony happened in say June that she testified live on TV. In July, a month after this had happened, I'm still representing witnesses before the committee.
One of these witnesses who had been working in the White House had been asking, and we went through an entire deposition. And the deposition ends in a very standard way where the investigator says, hey, have you had any other conversations with any witnesses about your testimony today? Have you ever talked to Trump about your testimony? No, I've never done that.
One of these witnesses who had been working in the White House had been asking, and we went through an entire deposition. And the deposition ends in a very standard way where the investigator says, hey, have you had any other conversations with any witnesses about your testimony today? Have you ever talked to Trump about your testimony? No, I've never done that.
One of these witnesses who had been working in the White House had been asking, and we went through an entire deposition. And the deposition ends in a very standard way where the investigator says, hey, have you had any other conversations with any witnesses about your testimony today? Have you ever talked to Trump about your testimony? No, I've never done that.
It's a very standard set of questions. Have you talked to anyone about your witness other than your lawyer? And he says, no, no, no. He says, oh, wait. He says, actually, I did talk to somebody. He says, immediately after Cassidy Hutchinson testified live on TV, Tony Ornato called me and said, this makes no sense to me. I don't understand. Why is she doing this? What have we missed?
It's a very standard set of questions. Have you talked to anyone about your witness other than your lawyer? And he says, no, no, no. He says, oh, wait. He says, actually, I did talk to somebody. He says, immediately after Cassidy Hutchinson testified live on TV, Tony Ornato called me and said, this makes no sense to me. I don't understand. Why is she doing this? What have we missed?
It's a very standard set of questions. Have you talked to anyone about your witness other than your lawyer? And he says, no, no, no. He says, oh, wait. He says, actually, I did talk to somebody. He says, immediately after Cassidy Hutchinson testified live on TV, Tony Ornato called me and said, this makes no sense to me. I don't understand. Why is she doing this? What have we missed?
He testified, and this is all in the transcript. It's all out there. But I'm sitting there as now the lawyer that the committee knows used to represent Cassidy Hutchinson, was fired because I'm a Trump lawyer, I'm now representing a different witness who is testifying.
He testified, and this is all in the transcript. It's all out there. But I'm sitting there as now the lawyer that the committee knows used to represent Cassidy Hutchinson, was fired because I'm a Trump lawyer, I'm now representing a different witness who is testifying.
He testified, and this is all in the transcript. It's all out there. But I'm sitting there as now the lawyer that the committee knows used to represent Cassidy Hutchinson, was fired because I'm a Trump lawyer, I'm now representing a different witness who is testifying.
I had no knowledge that he was gonna provide that testimony, but he's now testifying that in real time, either while Cassidy was on TV or in the immediate aftermath, The fact witness with knowledge had called this young person and said, this isn't true. Now, you can imagine for me, as I'm sitting representing this witness, all of the eyes in the Zoom come to me.
I had no knowledge that he was gonna provide that testimony, but he's now testifying that in real time, either while Cassidy was on TV or in the immediate aftermath, The fact witness with knowledge had called this young person and said, this isn't true. Now, you can imagine for me, as I'm sitting representing this witness, all of the eyes in the Zoom come to me.
I had no knowledge that he was gonna provide that testimony, but he's now testifying that in real time, either while Cassidy was on TV or in the immediate aftermath, The fact witness with knowledge had called this young person and said, this isn't true. Now, you can imagine for me, as I'm sitting representing this witness, all of the eyes in the Zoom come to me.
And that was when I realized I'm in trouble here because I heard my witness say,
And that was when I realized I'm in trouble here because I heard my witness say,
And that was when I realized I'm in trouble here because I heard my witness say,
give a story that's inconsistent with the star witness she had already testified on tv she was already the star witness for the committee i knew they can't bury that nugget the way they could have buried everything else because i heard it and when i saw all of the eyes on that zoom turned to me was when i knew i am now an inconvenient truth for this because i heard him testify