Ex-Trump ethics lawyer's Jan. 6 Committee lawsuit dismissed
Stefan Passantino appearing on The Tucker Carlson Show in November 2024 (YouTube).

Stefan Passantino appearing on The Tucker Carlson Show in November 2024 (YouTube).

A federal judge in Georgia has rejected a lawsuit brought by a former White House ethics lawyer for Trump. The lawsuit accused members of the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack of civil conspiracy and invasion of privacy.

The U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross granted the government’s request to dismiss the case. The case was filed by Stefan Passantino. Passantino alleged that Committee members leaked confidential interview transcripts to CNN to damage his reputation and business.

Stefan Passantino worked as the deputy White House counsel in the first Trump administration. Afterward, he returned to the private sector during the Biden administration. He worked for Save America Leadership, a pro-Trump political action committee. Passantino represented individuals who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee.

Passantino was the first lawyer to represent Cassidy Hutchinson, the former special assistant to President Trump and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in her meetings with the Committee.

According to Passantino, then-Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Senior Investigative Counsel Dan George in May 2022 contacted Hutchinson without his knowledge and advised his client that he “would not be advancing her interests” because he “was being paid by a Trump-affiliated third-party,” which ultimately led to her seeking new counsel.

Hutchinson participated in several additional interviews and in December 2022, a CNN reporter contacted Passantino and said an unreleased transcript from one of Hutchinson’s interviews suggested he had counseled her “not to answer the Committee’s questions fully and honestly.”

Hutchinson testified that before her initial sessions with the Committee, Passantino would dangle potential jobs “in Trumpworld” and tell her she would be “taken care of.”

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