- Trump's former chief of staff
Mark Meadows burned documents after a meeting, according to Politico. - A former
White House aide testified that she "saw Meadows incinerate documents."
One of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' former aides testified to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot that she witnessed her boss burn documents after meeting with a Pennsylvania congressman seeking to help President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 election loss.
The testimony came from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, and was first reported by Politico.
She told the committee she "saw Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)," according to the report.
Meadows' meeting with Perry came in the weeks after the election, per Politico, but it remains unclear which specific documents the then-chief of staff scorched.
Perry's office and a lawyer for Meadows did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Politico's source was described as "familiar with the testimony" and requested anonymity to detail the events. Reporters Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney noted that they couldn't independently confirm that Meadows burned the papers after meeting with Perry.
Perry, whose district covers the area around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, the most pro-Trump voting block in the chamber.
The select committe has subpoenaed Perry and asked him to testify over his alleged efforts to install a Trump loyalist as attorney general in an effort to try and overturn the election. Perry has objected to the subpoena, CNN reported Thursday.
The committee is in possession of 2,319 text messages from Meadows from before and after the insurrection.