Grand jury rejects DOJ bid to indict ex-Trump WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson: Reports

A federal grand jury Tuesday rejected a request by the Department of Justice to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over her 2022 congressional testimony about President Donald Trump 's conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, The Washington Post reported.

Prosecutors in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division sought to charge Hutchinson with a crime based on claims she made false statements, MS NOW said, citing two people with knowledge of the case.

Hutchinson told lawmakers a second-hand account about Trump angrily lunging at a security aide after being told he could not go to the Capitol that day.

Senior DOJ lawyer Neville Hedley, without naming Hutchinson in open court, on Tuesday told Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui that the grand jury in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., had rejected a requested indictment, The Post reported.