Enough by Cassidy Hutchinson. 4 stars. Memoir/politics, 384 pages, 2023

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington. from Goodreads

I admired Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the January 6th Committee. Too few were coming forward with the truth and she was a reluctant witness, but one willing to put country above loyalty to one man.

She was an ambitious workaholic and proud to be part of the Trump spin machine. She said again and again how adept she was at the politics of it. She did not resign on January 6 like many others did and even intended to go and work for Trump in Florida. She was a tried and true Republican.

She spoke at length of her fractured relationship with her father, the close relationship she shared with Mark Meadows, and her repeated creepy encounters with Matt Gaetz.

A good 90 percent of this book paints her time in the White House as a positive. I was surprised at her change of heart. She reveled in the politics. To see her go from a Trump sychophant to truth teller was fascinating. For her it came down to something that was said to her about having to look at herself in the mirror for the rest of her life and having to live with that person. She also took great courage from the book The Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Alex Butterfield’s Congressional testimony about Richard Nixon.

After her January 6 I heard all of the Republican noise about her not having ‘real’ access and Trump saying he barely talked to her, at some point I’m pretty sure he said he didn’t even know her name. These attempts at belittling her are obviously false. Before working for Chief of Staff Mark Meadows she worked in the offices of Scalese and then Ted Cruz.

If you are considering voting for Trump, I’d read this. She was his people until she wasn’t and loyal longer than most with a conscience.