Cassidy Hutchinson revealed in her new book Enough, that she was lugging around classified information in a Whole Foods bag after pro-Donald Trump reporters returned the documents to Mark Meadows.
The documents were given to far-right writers Mollie Hemingway and John Solomon, Hutchinson wrote. It infuriated the White House counsel, who witnessed what happened.
It was previously reported that Meadows made a last-minute mad-dash for the Justice Department, claiming Trump declassified the information after Trump had already left the White House, according to Hutchinson. The DOJ refused to declassify the information, but Trump's allies maintain Trump filed the necessary paperwork in time. It was 15 minutes before President Joe Biden was sworn in as the president.
"At around 10:30 p.m. [the night before], I saw Pat Philbin power walking toward my office. Great, I thought. What could possibly be going wrong now?" she writes. Trump had already left the office and many other staffers carried their belongings out.