Blockbuster Jan. 6 Committee Witness Calls Current GOP ‘Despicable’ and Endorses Kamala Harris on MSNBC

Cassidy Hutchinson, who once served under former President Donald Trump and later became a bombshell witness in the January 6 hearings, endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and made the case against her former boss.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, host Lawrence O’Donnell asked Hutchinson if she had decided who she was voting for in November. Hutchinson, who wrote a memoir about her defection from Trump World, had previously indicated that was open to voting for President Joe Biden when he was still in the running. Hutchinson not only endorsed Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), she explained why she was voting for Democrats down the ticket as well:

In my personal view — now, I understand that the way that people approached the way that they decide who to vote for is oftentimes deeply intimate and personal. So, I don’t ever want to try to tell somebody how to vote. But in my experience, number one, from being up close to Donald Trump, seeing his character, knowing who he is, believing him when he tells us who he is, and also who he chose as his vice presidential running mate, [Sen. JD Vance (R-OH)] — who’s a whole separate conversation — it’s just a despicable portrayal of the Republican Party.

I am really, really proud as a conservative to have the opportunity to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in this election. Policy is important. It’s very important to me. And there may be few issues that Kamala Harris and I would see eye-to-eye on. I hope that we’ll be able to come to consensus on a lot more issues. But in saying that, the character of our leaders really matters, too. We need to be able to elect people that we can trust to uphold our rule of law, people that we want our children to look at and to want to emulate. Kamala Harris is from a working-class background. Tim Walz is from a working-class background. Those are the people that Donald Trump claimed to represent but actually exploited and manipulated their support.

So, you know, I say to Republicans who may be on the fence, I understand how frightening it can be to potentially break with your party. I also understand that there are concerns, and very valid concerns, about inflation. But Donald Trump and JD Vance cannot be trusted with the Constitution, they cannot be trusted to uphold our rule of law, and they can’t be trusted to enact responsible policy. That in and of itself is disqualifying amongst many other things, some of them being that Donald Trump is also under federal and state indictments. So, when it comes down to the decision for me to vote for Kamala Harris, I look forward to casting my ballot for her. And I think it’s also really important to say, for me at least, that I will also be voting for Republicans — I’m sorry, for Democrats in the House and the Senate, too, just because I think it is so important that we get past this period of Donald Trump for America to begin healing.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.