She was a Trump aide. She got caught up in the law fare battles. Nobody on the Trump side would support her so she was given the classic plumba or plata choice by the Democrats . She is not a sophisticated lawyer with deep pockets to defend herself so she choose the plata option
Republicans have no one to blame but themselves
The terminally dumb Cassidy was most recently Mark Meadows’ employee-as of March 2020-and became head of his staff-no longer on pres Trump’s personal staff, so any of her statements are not even worthy of being 2nd/3d hand-she was nowhere near any of the events she talks about. And the phrase you are quoting is actually “plata o plomo”-translation “silver or lead”-the phrase is/was popularized by the Mexican Mafia...