2026-03-06T10:00:34.097Z / CNN
作者：Annie Grayer、Katelyn Polantz、Evan Perez
更新于46分钟前
更新时间：2026年3月6日，美国东部时间上午6:14
发布时间：2026年3月6日，美国东部时间上午5:00
前白宫助手卡西迪·哈钦森2023年9月26日在纽约拍摄的肖像照
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据两名知情人士透露，国会山共和党议员正要求司法部考虑对卡西迪·哈钦森（Cassidy Hutchinson）提起刑事指控。哈钦森曾是唐纳德·特朗普第一任政府的前助手，在2021年1月6日国会山骚乱事件中成为备受瞩目的国会证人。
消息人士称，共和党众议员巴里·劳德米尔克（Barry Loudermilk）近日已向司法部提交了对哈钦森的刑事转诊，指控她在2022年夏季的证词中撒谎。哈钦森当时声称，特朗普在2021年1月6日已知晓可能发生暴力事件，却仍执意煽动支持者。
劳德米尔克长期试图重塑公众对国会山事件的认知，包括质疑调查国会山骚乱的众议院委员会，并认定特朗普“直接对骚乱负责”。此次转诊由众议院司法委员会主席吉姆·乔丹（Jim Jordan）联合签署，而劳德米尔克正是在乔丹领导的委员会下负责调查1月6日事件的。
司法部新闻办公室未回应有关转诊的置评请求。哈钦森的现任和前任律师本周也未回应CNN的多次询问。CNN已联系劳德米尔克请求置评。
国会对过往证人提起刑事转诊并不罕见，尤其在政治高度紧张的情况下，但转诊并不必然导致正式指控。司法部通常将此类转诊视为建议，有时可能推动或补充刑事调查。
对哈钦森的指控可能重新聚焦于众议院特别委员会及检察官多年前工作中的争议点，同时正值特朗普政府对其视为对手的前政府官员提起政治动机强烈的刑事诉讼。
哈钦森多年来备受审视
29岁的哈钦森曾是特朗普第一任政府末任白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯（Mark Meadows）的首席助手。由当时议长南希·佩洛西（Nancy Pelosi）组建的特别委员会视其为1月6日前后多起事件的关键证人，并记录了特朗普当天的实时反应。
她的证词遭到共和党强烈抨击。拜登政府时期的司法部检察官在调查特朗普及其他共和党要人的过程中曾对其进行询问，并严肃对待部分指控，知情人士曾向CNN透露。
哈钦森作证称，她听闻特朗普因特勤局阻止其前往国会而暴怒，甚至试图抢夺总统座驾的方向盘。
然而，哈钦森提及的两名知情特勤局人员和白宫官员均表示不记得此事。
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哈钦森曾指控其最初的律师斯特凡·帕桑蒂诺（Stefan Passantino）——特朗普第一任政府最高伦理律师——明确告知她“回忆得越少越好”。
2022年6月的关键证词前，哈钦森解雇帕桑蒂诺并更换律师，此后通过闭门访谈和公开听证会向特别委员会提供更多信息。
帕桑蒂诺多次否认不当行为，称其始终以专业态度协助哈钦森，并相信她最初陈述是真实的。华盛顿特区和佐治亚州的法律伦理调查均在哈钦森证词后终止。
联邦调查局和拜登政府司法部曾调查哈钦森对帕桑蒂诺及其他相关人员的指控，但未提出任何指控。
帕桑蒂诺及其律所未回应置评请求
对哈钦森的联邦调查发生在特别检察官杰克·史密斯履职之前，其指控未纳入史密斯针对特朗普的1月6日相关案件中。
但众议院司法委员会共和党人持续质疑哈钦森在刑事调查及特别委员会听证中的角色。
三个月前，史密斯在闭门采访中向委员会表示，其团队评估了哈钦森关于特朗普1月6日行为的陈述，但认为她并非调查中的关键证人。
“她的许多证词都是二手信息，属于传闻证据，因此在法庭上不可采纳。其他陈述的事实细节也存在模糊性。”史密斯补充道，其团队已采访多名哈钦森提及的证人，包括当天乘坐特朗普座驾的特勤人员。
“该证人描述的事件版本与哈钦森声称的二手信息不符。”史密斯指出。
关于哈钦森称特朗普不希望支持者在椭圆形广场集会上接受武器安检的说法，史密斯表示不同证人有不同视角。
史密斯拒绝评价其证词可靠性：“我不记得得出过这样的结论，因为我们当时离审判还很远，尚未做出最终决定。”
另一名前司法部检察官托马斯·温德姆（Thomas Windom）——在史密斯履职前后均参与1月6日调查——已被众议院司法委员会转诊至司法部，指控其“阻碍当前国会对1月6日工作的回溯调查”。但温德姆尚未被起诉。
去年采访中，委员会未直接询问哈钦森相关问题，温德姆在律师建议下基本拒绝回答。
（注：文中黑体部分为原文标注，译文已保留格式）
卡西迪·哈钦森在众议院特别委员会第六次听证会上宣誓作证，2022年6月28日华盛顿特区坎农办公楼。Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
GOP lawmakers push for charges against former White House aide for Jan. 6 testimony
2026-03-06T10:00:34.097Z / CNN
By Annie Grayer, Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez
Updated 46 min ago
Updated Mar 6, 2026, 6:14 AM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2026, 5:00 AM ET
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson poses for a portrait in New York on September 26, 2023.
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Republicans on Capitol Hill are asking the Justice Department to consider bringing criminal charges against Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide in President Donald Trump’s first administration who became a star congressional witness about the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, according to two sources familiar with recent developments.
GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk made a criminal referral of Hutchinson to the Justice Department in recent days, the sources said. He accused Hutchinson of lying to Congress in her summer 2022 testimony when she alleged Trump was aware of the potential for violence on January 6, 2021, and forged ahead with his attempts to rile up his supporters.
Loudermilk has long attempted to reframe the public perception of the events at the Capitol, including by scrutinizing the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot and found Trump was “directly responsible” for the riot. Loudermilk’s referral was co-signed by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, who chairs the committee under which Loudermilk is running a probe of January 6.
The Justice Department’s press office didn’t respond to inquiries about the referral. Both current and former lawyers for Hutchinson didn’t respond to multiple inquiries this week from CNN. CNN has reached out to Loudermilk for comment.
It’s not uncommon for Congress to make criminal referrals regarding witnesses that have come before it previously, especially in heavily charged political situations, and referrals don’t necessarily lead to charges. A referral at times could add to a criminal investigation or prompt one. They are often treated by the Justice Department as suggestions.
A referral and possible Justice Department action against Hutchinson could refocus attention on a fraught aspect of the work years ago of the House Select Committee and prosecutors. It also comes a time when the Trump administration has pursued politically charged criminal cases against former government figures whom Trump considers opponents.
Hutchinson has drawn scrutiny for years
Hutchinson, 29, was the top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows at the end of the first Trump administration. The select committee created by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi considered her a key eyewitness to several episodes leading up to January 6, in addition to witnessing some of Trump’s real-time reactions that day.
Her testimony drew significant blowback from Republicans. Justice Department prosecutors under former President Joe Biden’s administration interviewed her during their inquiry into Trump and other powerful Republican figures — and took some of her accusations seriously, sources familiar with the probe at the time have told CNN.
Hutchinson testified she had heard a secondhand account that Trump was so enraged at his Secret Service detail for blocking him from going to the Capitol on January 6 that he lunged to the front of his presidential limo and tried to turn the wheel.
A Secret Service agent and White House deputy whom Hutchinson said were also aware of the story have said they don’t remember it.
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Hutchinson had alleged the lawyer she initially worked with, Stefan Passantino, who was the top ethics attorney in the first Trump administration, had made clear to her that the less she recalled to House investigators, the better.
Before her blockbuster testimony in June 2022, Hutchinson dropped Passantino and got a new lawyer. Once she switched attorneys, she shared more information with the former select committee both through closed-door interviews and in a public hearing.
Passantino has repeatedly said he acted ethically in representing Hutchinson, ushered her through cooperative rounds of testimony and believed she had been truthful initially. Legal ethics investigators in Washington, DC, and Georgia both dropped inquiries into Passantino that arose after Hutchinson’s testimony.
The FBI and Biden-era Justice Department prosecutors investigated Hutchinson’s accusations about the Trump-backed lawyer and others who may have been involved in Hutchinson’s account of events, sources have told CNN. No charges were brought.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2022.
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Passantino and a law firm who represents him didn’t respond to requests for comment for this story.
The federal investigators’ questioning of Hutchinson predated the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, and her accusations never became part of Smith’s now-public findings in the January 6-related case against Trump.
Yet House Judiciary Committee’s Republicans have continued to raise questions about Hutchinson’s role in the criminal investigation and as a House Select Committee witness.
Smith told the committee in a closed-door interview three months ago that his office evaluated Hutchinson’s claims about Trump on January 6.
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Ultimately, Smith said, she wasn’t a powerful witness in his probe of Trump. Many of Hutchinson’s stories were secondhand, and thus not admissible in court because they were hearsay, Smith noted. Other stories were squishier on the facts of what happened, he said.
Smith said Justice Department investigators had interviewed people she spoke with, including an officer who was in the car with Trump that day.
“The version of events that he (the other witness) explained was not the same as what Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard from somebody secondhand,” Smith said.
On another point, Smith said he had “a conflict” between stories, from her and others, about whether Hutchinson wrote a specific note in the White House.
Smith’s team also found different witnesses “seeing it from a different perspective,” Smith told the committee, when asked about a story Hutchinson told of Trump not wanting his supporters to go through a security check for weapons at his January 6 rally on the Ellipse.
Smith declined to assess how reliable her testimony was.
“I don’t recall reaching any sort of conclusion like that because we were, again, far away from trial,” he told the House Judiciary Committee. “We hadn’t made final determinations.”
Another former Justice Department prosecutor, Thomas Windom, who worked on the January 6 investigation before and during Smith’s special counsel tenure, has already been referred by the House Judiciary Committee to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. The committee has accused him of obstructing the current Congressional investigation looking back at the January 6 work.
Windom hasn’t been charged with a crime. In an interview last year, the committee didn’t ask him explicitly about Hutchinson, according to a public transcript. Windom largely declined to answer questions in his interview, following his lawyer’s advice.
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