Federal court seeks dismissal of defamation lawsuit by former White House lawyer Stephen Passantino over false claims that he coached a January 6 committee witness to lie Anti-Trump critic Andrew・Mr. Weissman's motion was dismissed.
Breitbart News reported in September 2023:
President Trump's former White House lawyer Stephen Passantino told MSNBC's Andrew Weissman, who served as former special counsel Robert Mueller's lead prosecutor, on January 6th that Passantino lost confidence in. Wiseman filed a defamation lawsuit against Wiseman over his claim that he coached a witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, to lie on the stand.
Breitbart News reports that “Mr. Hutchinson's third-party testimony that President Trump took the wheel of the presidential limousine in an attempt to force her to drive him to the Capitol is based on the people who claim to have told her about it. It was rejected by.”
Mr. Passantino represented Mr. Hutchinson during his testimony before the committee. Many media personnel are reporting falsehoods. claimed He instructed her to lie down on the stand, an allegation he has repeatedly denied.
federalist reported Wednesday:
In September, U.S. District Judge Lauren Ali Khan rejected The motion from MSNBC legal analyst and attorney Andrew Wiseman was made by Stephen Passantino, who served as former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's defense attorney before becoming the committee's star witness on Jan. 6. It asked that his complaint be dismissed.
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“This is an insidious lie” Passantino lawsuit Read. “MS. Hutchinson even testified while under penalty of law: [Passantino] He never asked me to lie. …He told me not to lie. ”
Hutchinson's testimony appears on page 42 of the public document. transcript From an interview with the committee on September 14, 2022 and January 6, 2022. Instead, Passantino coached her, as a standard fact witness, to only answer questions she remembered. Mr. Passantino represented Mr. Hutchinson in his first three interviews with the committee before changing attorneys and making public appearances. Records dated February 23, 2022, March 7, 2022, and May 17, 2022 do not indicate that Passantino interfered with Hutchinson's testimony. A recording was also made, but on January 6th the commission destroyed the video.
Mr. Wiseman is known for his hostility toward Mr. Trump and his enthusiasm for “legal” efforts to target the president-elect.
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