Ex-Trump Aide Says Democracy Won't Survive if He Wins 2024 Election

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide to Donald Trump, said democracy may not survive if the former president wins a second term in 2024.

Hutchinson, who testified before the House January 6 committee last year, urged people to vote for Democrat Joe Biden over Trump, who is leading the race to become the Republican presidential nominee.

In an appearance on MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki, Hutchinson said her door is "completely shut" to voting for Trump.

"The only reason that I will not endorse a candidate right now is because I still am hopeful that Donald Trump does not end up being the nominee next year," she told Psaki, formerly the White House press secretary in the Biden administration.

"I think our country will be in a much better place overall, not just for myself but the ticket and the future of our country will be... I think everybody should vote for Joe Biden if they want our democracy to survive."

Hutchinson was asked by Psaki what her message was to her fellow former Trump aides who are concerned about a second Trump term, but have yet to come out publicly.

She pointed to a recent article in The Washington Post, which quoted one former official saying he would be more willing to speak out against Trump if he thought it would "make a difference," and worried that doing so would lose him clients. Another official quoted anonymously by the newspaper said many were considering speaking out if Trump became the nominee.

"I do understand a fear of retribution... I do understand their fear of backlash,'" Hutchinson said.

"But when we think about this next election in 2024, I don't like to play a doomsday hypothesis, but it does look like he is going to be the Republican nominee as of right now.

"If Donald Trump is elected president again in 2024. I do fear that it will be the last election where we're voting for democracy because if he is elected again, I don't think that we'll be voting under the same constitution that we would be... if Joe Biden is elected in 2024."

Newsweek has contacted Hutchinson for comment via LinkedIn and a Trump campaign spokesman for comment via email.

Hutchinson, who worked for Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified for two hours before the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol in June last year about the inner workings of the White House in the days leading up to and including the riot.

She recalled how the Secret Service had resisted Trump's demands to join the mob of his supporters trying to disrupt the certification of Biden's 2020 electoral victory.