Trump Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows Burned So Many Papers In His White House Office ‘It Smelled Like A Bonfire,’ Top Aide Says

Mark Meadows burned so many papers in his office fireplace during his final months as Donald Trump’s chief of staff that his wife had to dry clean his clothes to rid them of the “bonfire smell,” according to his former senior aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s new memoir.

Hutchinson served as a key witness in the House committee’s investigation into the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Her book, Enough, was published on Tuesday and included incriminating details about other members of the Trump administration.

The ex-Meadows aide previously testified to the House committee that she had seen her boss burning documents in his office upwards of a dozen times, and wrote in her memoir that she “would sometimes find [Meadows] leaning over the fire, feeding papers into it, watching to make sure they burned.”

She went on to mention that Meadows burned papers so frequently that his wife commented on the cost of his dry cleaning bill, which increased as his clothes began to smell like “bonfire.”

Hutchinson’s book also describes an instance that took place on the morning of January 6, asserting that Rudy Giuliani groped her while waiting backstage, watching Trump address his supporters in Washington.