Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims in a new book that Rudolph W. Giuliani groped her on the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021.
In her book, titled “Enough,” which is set to be released next week, Ms. Hutchinson said that Mr. Giuliani, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, was “like a wolf closing in on its prey.”
At the time, Ms. Hutchinson’s boss was Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s final chief of staff. She has become a key witness in the Jan. 6 investigations.
“I feel his frozen fingers trail up my thigh,” she wrote of Mr. Giuliani, according to The Guardian. “He tilts his chin up. The whites of his eyes look jaundiced. My eyes dart to [Trump adviser] John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin.”
She writes, “I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy’s grip … filled with rage, I storm through the tent, on yet another quest for Mark.”
In the book, Ms. Hutchinson said that she had met the former New York City mayor backstage at Mr. Trump’s speech near the White House before his followers started converging on the Capitol. It was at that stop that Mr. Giuliani put his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt.”
The Washington Times did not independently preview the book.
Mr. Giuliani’s political adviser, Ted Goodman, told CNN in a statement that the ex-Trump aide’s claims were a “disgusting lie.”
“It’s fair to ask Cassidy Hutchinson why she is just now coming out with these allegations from two-and-a-half years ago, as part of the marketing campaign for her upcoming book release,” he said. “This is a disgusting lie against Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”
Mr. Giuliani is one of the 18 co-defendants in Mr. Trump’s Georgia 2020 election interference trial. Like many others, he has pleaded not guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges.
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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