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Cassidy Hutchinson

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first: 2023-12-21
most recent: 2023-12-21
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“After 9-11, I remember feeling the surge of national pride, as did many Americans. My parents ever hid what happened that day for me. I attribute a lot of my early patriotism, but also desire to serve in the government or have a career in public service to my uncle Joe, who is a very formative figure both in my early years.”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not exactly sure. I remember being young and we would always go for rides in his pickup truck. And every time we would pass a police officer, he would say people with never going to badges aren't French. I'm not entirely sure where the animosity towards the government is rooted. I assume a lot of it has just come from misinformation and lack of awareness of what the government actually is there to do and to serve. And I think when I look at the Trump movement and I think about my journey through Trump world and to get to where I am now, but also with my earlier years and thinking about how my parents grew up I state, there's a lot of parallels I can draw between the Trump base and the people that I grew up surrounded by”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“On the option, but also that he's built this brilliant business and he can rebuild America just as brilliantly when it's really an entire facade and act that Donald Trump has put on. I think about my father specifically and it's not nothing against him, but I don't think he really has a concept of what the Republican Party platform once was and what Donald Trump has completely morphed it into. He views Donald Trump as the only person that can help him in this country as a blue-collar American or as a working class American.”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know, I haven't had the conversation him. I don't know exactly what it was that initially drew him to Donald Trump watching the apprentice. I assume it's pretty cut and dry that he saw that or he felt that Donald Trump was a fantastic businessman. My father always wanted to get rich. He always wanted the next best thing for his business or in his family and to try to always learn new ways about marketing and about building his own business and building his own quote unquote empire. Yeah, I look back now and even through middle school and high school, there are many elements of my father's personality that I now see make up the bulk of Trump's base, the people who had never voted before, people who saw something in Donald Trump and he felt that they were actually, that he was that Donald Trump was actually there to represent them. And it sort of is playing on, in my view, at least, playing on the fear of these people that he is the best in the”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. Yeah, they now think that Donald Trump was on the apprentice. I don't ever really remember my parents talking about politics, especially when I was younger. Now I became politically intrigued during 2012 presidential elections. I remember beginning personally to talk to my parents about politics then. I had heard my parents talk a little bit about George Bush after 9-11, but I had no concept of political awareness. never really talked about politics to my best knowledge neither of them had ever voted before 2016 i know for a fact at least my mother and i call my chosen father in the book but my mom partner um but yeah my again my my father was a small business owner and”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In many ways, you know, I do think. Some of that has contributed to, I used to think it was a strength, and in some ways I still do, but my ability to compartmentalize and be able to get a job done. And that was really of strength in the Trump White House was to be able to turn your emotions off. You're there to do a job and you're there to serve the president of the United States. And it doesn't matter what drama or what snake pit you're in that day and who's trying to stab who in the back as long as you put your head down and do your do your job. You're going to be successful”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had been so ingrained into this particular mindset where I'd never looked at those memories or those events as anything other than what they were. And I had been predispositioned and conditioned to think and believe that my father treated me that way and my father put me in those situations to make me stronger, to show me that I was self-sufficient. So in many ways I still view it that way. And again, these are stories of my life. At the time, I never viewed it as abusive, I could now see things from a different position and I understand that some of the things I personally believe children should never have to go through, but it was, you know, from a very young age, I had been exposed to that quote unquote tough guy mindset and suck it up and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Things are going to be fine. People have it so much worse. And I'm doing because I love you.”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Despite my strange relationship with my father now, he really was the hardest worker that I had ever known in my life. And that progressing became more and more, I would say, a little bit more neuronic as I got a little bit older. My parents inched towards divorce, but I had this keen awareness of how hard he worked, even though it was different than the labor that I saw myself going into eventually. He was serving our community, at least that's how he had always phrased it to us. And it was essential that he worked hard to be able to take care of our family. You know, he was tough and he had a very difficult personality, but I think all of those things combined, and I look back and reflect on my tenure in the administration and I'm not somebody that's big on psychoanalysis, but I really do think that, I mean, there's so much of my father that helped equip me for being successful in the administration, but more.”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father, you know, he was a big government skeptic for as long as I can remember, but he always put an emphasis on education. And I remember being very young. And he told me that education was the way to a better life than what we had and what he was able to provide us. So even from a very young age, I knew that there was a better life or I felt that there was a better life. That's what I had been told.”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pennington New Jersey, it is a great place to grow up, but it's sort of this tiny little town sandwiched in between New York City about 50 minutes from New York City and 25 from Philadelphia and outside of Princeton. So it's this tiny little quape town. I grew up in a working class family. I ended up being the first person in my immediate family to go to college. My mom really ran our household, my biological father had a big landscaping business and then ended up having a tree arborist company. So I was constantly surrounded by what we would refer to as blue-collar workers or working class Americans and that's what both of my extended families primarily did as well. So my world was very different than the world that I live in now. And at the time I wasn't really aware that there was much different about it, which the only reality that I really knew. But I think having that background, seeing how”
2023-12-21 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 562 — Cassidy Hutchinson · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source