“Hunt also is Cassidy Hutchinson’s good lawyer. (Not the one who coached her to lie)” Andrew Weissmann, X post, as quoted by Just the News, Oct. 1, 2024
Just the News (Oct. 1, 2024) reported that U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan did not throw out former Trump White House lawyer Stefan Passantino’s defamation case against Weissmann. The paper quotes Weissmann’s X post: “Hunt also is Cassidy Hutchinson’s good lawyer. (Not the one who coached her to lie) And he is the guy who took notes of Trump saying, when Mueller was appointed, quoting him as saying ‘I’m f….d.’” Passantino’s suit, as quoted there, called the tweet a “lie” and a “smear.”
Just the News wrote that Judge AliKhan tossed one point of the lawsuit for failing a heightened standard on financial damage, but the defamation claim remains. Hot Air (Oct. 2, 2024) and Trending Politics ran the same ruling: the court refused to toss the claim. An America First Legal–hosted DC Bar complaint PDF (Oct. 21, 2024) notes Passantino v. Weissmann, 1:23-cv-2780, the “coached [a witness] to lie” tweet, and a motion-to-dismiss denial dated Sept. 26, 2024. The Post Millennial recapped the complaint and later Hutchinson text-message reporting; that is secondary coverage of the same civil fight.
Allegation A surviving claim is not a finding that Weissmann defamed Passantino. It is not a finding that Passantino coached Hutchinson to lie. Home addresses, if they appear on any caption, are not repeated here. This page stops at the tweet, the suit, and the court’s refusal to dismiss the defamation count as of those October 2024 write-ups.