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Elie Honig flattens 'ridiculously weak' indictment threat against former Trump aide

President Donald Trump's administration is now considering a federal indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, on charges that she lied to the House January 6 Committee when describing what she heard about Trump's actions during the attack on the U.S. Capitol. But such a case would be essentially impossible to win, former federal…

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