Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump Is Terrified Of Being ‘Poisoned’

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson said that ex-President Donald Trump is paranoid he will be “poisoned.”

Hutchinson’s new book, Enough, details the president’s phobia that can make dining problematic for him.

Hutchinson recently told comedian Jimmy Kimmel on his show, “[Trump] does have a very potent fear of being poisoned… So he uses and prefers the small Heinz glass ketchup bottles because he likes to hear his valet or whoever’s serving him his meal, he likes to hear the ‘pop’” when the bottle opens.

Her comments were in response to Kimmel’s reference to her testimony in front of the House committee in the investigation of the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

Hutchinson said she found ketchup on the wall with a shattered plate in the West Wing dining room after Trump threw his meal in anger.

“The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the attorney general [William Barr]’s interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall, which was causing them to have to clean up… so I grabbed a towel and started wiping the ketchup off the wall to help the valet out,” Hutchinson told a House committee. 

At the age of 24, Hutchinson came forward as a pivotal witness in the investigations.

This September, Hutchinson’s book Enough came out, and just one day after its release skyrocketed to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. The memoir details her time in the White House as a top aide to Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff.

She said of the moments before her now-infamous testimony, “I heard the door click open and I turned around, and I looked at my attorney and said, ‘I can’t do this.’ And I started to walk, and he gently pushed my shoulders. And he said, ‘You can do this,’” Hutchinson wrote in her book. “And then we walked out.”

Through her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the deep struggle she faced between the pressure she felt to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy.