Elizabeth Loftus, left, receiving her honorary doctorate from the Hon. Julie Bishop, chancellor of Australian National University (ANU) in July. Bishop is ANU’s first female chancellor.
As I prepared to travel to Australia for ANU’s commencement, I and millions of other citizens in my country were glued to the Congressional hearings investigating the deadly attack on our Capitol on January 6, 2021—an armed and violent insurrection designed to overthrow the legitimate election that made Joe Biden president by seven million votes. One bit of standout testimony about the insurrection came from a young woman named Cassidy Hutchinson. She was in her mid-twenties, not much older than many of you, and a half century younger than me. She had been a White House aide and assistant to Donald Trump’s chief of staff. She worked only a few feet from the Oval Office and clearly was in an insider position. There was nothing special about her; she was one of the legions of foot soldiers who work for any political party, the ones who show up every day to support their party and their president. But Hutchinson’s testimony was particularly damaging to former President Donald Trump, as she calmly detailed the behavior of the chief of staff, her boss, and the many others who were aiding and abetting Trump
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