Former Trump White House lawyer Stefan Passantino is suing the House Jan. 6 committee, alleging its members pushed a “false narrative” that he encouraged star witness Cassidy Hutchinson to lie to the panel.
The committee leaked “an outrageous tale” about Passantino to the news media, he said in a complaint filed Tuesday.
Passantino came under fire in December after the panel released testimony from Hutchinson, a Trump White House staffer. She said Passantino advised her to mislead the committee about certain events surrounding the attack on the US Capitol.
Passantino’s lawyers denied the accusation in the new complaint, arguing that ...
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