This lady Cassidy Hutchinson.
This is my take on this lady, now touted as some kind of hero:
It didn't bother her when -
Trump called fascists and bigots and bullies 'very fine people'.
He colluded with Russia, giving them info, letting them in the Oval Office, siding with Putin.
He attempted to extort Ukraine, and was impeached for it.
He incompetently handled COVID, causing vastly more deaths in America per population than any other country.
He gave obscene tax cuts to the rich, wound back good regulation, installed his goons wherever he could, and corrupted every area of government possible.
Lied on just on just about everything and anything he could for 4 years.
Made America look like a laughing stock in the international community.
Rambled on about using bleach to kill COVID, making a fool of himself.
Did everything he could before the 2020 election to subvert it, disparaging postal voting and corrupting the Postal service as per his installed goon.
These just for starters.
She was just fine with all of that, and much more. But when people actually attempted a violent coup she must have known Trump and his buddies had festered, she finally decides that that was too much and pulls back, I think because she was concerned about the legal ramifications for HER.
Did she leave during the Trump years? No. Did she go public before the election about Trump, as others did? No.
Okay, she did a good thing this week during the hearing. But apart from that she was right there in the White House presumably supporting Trump and everything he did, a totally loyal Republican girl. Her patriotism and belief in democracy was a bit late, don't you think?
Okay, she FINALLY did the right thing. But hero? No.
And to whom, exactly, was she, a 20-something year old intern, supposed to report/complain about this to At The Time.? The gang of complicit toadies surrounding her/trump?
That would have gone well, and for sure caused her to not now be as helpful to our country as she is right now.
Apologist for drump, are ya?
Hero may be a bit much, just for making a truthful statement with legal protection. But people do change, and that change often takes time, especially when you are blocked into a sub-culture which puts every sort of restraint and pressure on you, so what someone does today should not be blighted by what they did in the past, and breaking with your past can indeed be heroic, especially if you have been locked into that past for a long time and invested much in it.
Is she just trying to save her own skin though ? Maybe, but saving your skin and doing the right thing are not mutually exclusive. Benefit of the doubt.
Testifying against evil in front of Humanity means she painted a giant target on her back for the rest of her life. That appears heroic. Maybe it wasn't heroic, but was simply stupid. One doesn't keep company with cowardly fascist thugs unless one is also degenerate. The bigger problem is that the GQP still identify as supporting Trump against any democrat. Indeed, the GQP now sanctions lawless anything goes, and even violence; whatever it takes to regain power. No rules can't be broken, and destroying government functions is deemed a desirable by-product. It's a suicide pact set up by the GQP, which operates from a martyr complex psychology. They're ready to die because they think heaven awaits. Mostly, they don't think about it and instead recite Fox memes...