Former Trump lawyer sues Andrew Weissmann over ‘insidious lie’ that he coached Jan. 6 committee testimony

Cassidy Hutchinson

Main: Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies before Jan. 6 Committee (Brandon Bell/Getty Images). Inset top: Andrew Weissman attends the National Board of Review Awards Gala in January 2023 (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP). Inset bottom: Attorney Stefan Passantino appears on LexBlog in 2015 (YouTube).

A federal judge has refused to throw out a former Trump administration White House lawyer’s defamation case against former Mueller probe prosecutor and MSNBC pundit Andrew Weissmann after closely analyzing the “coached her to lie” tweet that gave rise to the lawsuit.

Stefan Passantino sued in September 2023 claiming that Weissmann damaged the reputation Passantino spent three decades building by tweeting (without naming him) that the plaintiff “coached” Jan. 6 star witness and former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson to “lie” to Congress.

In his complaint, Passantino said that Weissmann’s tweet amounted to an “insidious lie” and “smear.”

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