Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, is suing former Trump White House aid Cassidy Hutchinson, alleging she lied about him in a book she recently published.
Mr. Bobulinski garnered widespread public attention in October 2020 as he alleged that Joe Biden had knowledge of his son Hunter’s business activities and personally benefitted from his son’s business relationships. Mr. Bobulinski recently testified about his business interactions with the Bidens to members of the House of Representatives as Republicans continue an impeachment investigation into President Biden.
Ms. Hutchinson is a former White House aid who served as an assistant to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during President Donald Trump’s administration. She garnered public attention in her own right as a witness for the now-defunct Democrat-led House select committee tasked with investigating the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ms. Hutchinson testified about President Trump’s alleged actions surrounding those events, including internal deliberations about whether it would be wise for the president to go to the Capitol that day. She also raised the disputed claim that President Trump fought with his own Secret Service detail in hopes they would take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Following the public attention she received for her Congressional testimony, Ms. Hutchinson authored a memoir titled “Enough.” The book, published by Simon & Schuster, reiterates Ms. Hutchinson’s congressional testimony and presents it, according to the publisher’s description, as an account of the decisions she made when pitted “between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election.”
According to the civil complaint, “Enough” is a source of defamatory insinuations against Mr. Bobulinski.
The complaint specifically alleges Ms. Hutchinson lied in her book by claiming Mr. Bobulinski wore a ski mask when meeting with Mr. Meadows during a 2020 campaign rally for then-President Trump in Rome, Georgia. The complaint alleges Ms. Hutchinson made further false claims about that interaction by asserting the then-White House chief of staff handed Mr. Bobulinski a folded-up sheet of paper or a small envelope. In her book, Ms. Hutchinson describes the interactions between Mr. Bobulinski and Mr. Meadows as having given her a feeling of “unease” and “danger” and a “pit in my stomach.”
Mr. Bobulinski’s complaint argues Ms. Hutchinson’s false claims about the ski mask and the mysterious hand-off of a note or small envelope, combined with her negative insinuations about the interaction, were done to give the impression that Mr. Bobulinski and Mr. Meadows were engaged in some unethical behavior. The complaint said these negative insinuations would “create the false impression that a meeting between Mr. Bobulinski and Mr. Meadows was, somehow, inappropriate, unethical and/or even illegal.”
The lawsuit contends that Mr. Meadows sought out a meeting with Mr. Bobulinski, not to carry on in some questionable context, but rather to inquire about Mr. Bobulinski’s well-being after receiving death threats following his critical comments about the Biden family business dealings.
Mr. Bobulinski’s complaint argues that Ms. Hutchinson made these contentious claims in her book with ill will toward him and the Trump administration. The complaint alleges she also made these claims to boost her book sales.
Mr. Bobulinski argues he has incurred at least $75,000 in damages in the form of lost business opportunities, humiliation, embarrassment, mental anguish, anxiety, and fear for his and his family’s safety. He contends these damages are ongoing and were foreseeable by Ms. Hutchinson.
The lawsuit seeks an award for these damages and the disgorgement of any and all income Ms. Hutchinson made “off of her lies about Mr. Bobulinski.” Mr. Bobulinski’s legal team believes this award for damages and disgorgement should be determined at trial but should come to no less than $10 million.
NTD News reached out for comment from attorneys who served in the case on Ms. Hutchinson’s behalf but did not receive a response by press time.
NTD News also reached out for comment from Simon & Schuster. The publishing house behind “Enough” did not respond by press time.
