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Stefan Passantino is an American elections lawyer who served as a deputy counsel in the Trump administration.

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He graduated from Emory University School of Law. He worked on Newt Gringrich's 2012 presidential campaign and served as Georgia senator John Isakson's chief counsel. Passantino joined the Trump administration in January, 2017, serving as deputy counsel to the president, working on compliance and ethics. He left the administration in August, 2018.

He was the lawyer for Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, who testified before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. She has reported that she was encouraged to claim "I do not recall" for events she remembered. Hutchinson had changed lawyers before her public testimony in June, 2022. Passantino has denied urging her to mislead the panel.