The View got the chance to grill Cassidy Hutchinson on today’s episode, getting the inside scoop about her time working for former president Donald Trump. Hutchinson — who was a White House aide and assistant to Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — stopped by the daytime talk show to promote her new book, which comes about a year after she testified in the Jan. 6 hearings.

Hutchinson, who said she wanted to “speak to the dangers of Donald Trump” by testifying in June 2022, was questioned by Joy Behar about how she could have possibly “adored” Trump while working for him.

While Hutchinson said she did “adore” the former POTUS while working for him, she no longer holds those feelings. Furthermore, she said “tens of millions of Americans” felt the same.

“I don’t think I’m the only person that had those feelings,” she said, adding that there is a “unspoken cloak of loyalty” among Trump’s base that she now knows is “not normal.”

“It’s not normal to have to feel like, even as staffers, that you devote your loyalty to … the president,” she told the panel.

Whoopi Goldberg replied, “It’s cultish.” She revisited the descriptor later in the interview when Hutchinson said she felt guilty for Trump’s actions because she thought he needed “good people” around him and she had failed by letting bad influences lead to the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“Did you not realize you were in a cult?” Goldberg asked her, while Alyssa Farah Griffin, a fellow former Trump employee, agreed, “He has a power over people.”

“There was a period I adored him,” Griffin continued, while an incredulous Sunny Hostin asked, “Was he that charismatic eating those cheeseburgers all day?”

While Hostin was joking, Sara Haines delivered a more sober analysis: “Look at church cult leaders. You read these books about the slow degradation of tearing down the individual to build the leader. It happens.”

Behar then chimed in to ask, “Were there daddy issues? A lot of these people feel like they have daddy issues,” but gestured to Hutchinson and clarified, “Maybe not her.”

She added, “But a lot of them are following daddy, like, ‘Tell me what to do daddy.’”

The View airs weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.