diff --git a/src/compiler/checker.ts b/src/compiler/checker.ts
index 086bbb4b8cb4d..ca6ab49708c75 100644
--- a/src/compiler/checker.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/checker.ts
@@ -34523,6 +34523,8 @@ export function createTypeChecker(host: TypeCheckerHost): TypeChecker {
             }
             return getRegularTypeOfLiteralType(exprType);
         }
+        const links = getNodeLinks(node);
+        links.assertionExpressionType = exprType;
         checkSourceElement(type);
         checkNodeDeferred(node);
         return getTypeFromTypeNode(type);
@@ -34547,9 +34549,11 @@ export function createTypeChecker(host: TypeCheckerHost): TypeChecker {
     }
 
     function checkAssertionDeferred(node: JSDocTypeAssertion | AssertionExpression) {
-        const { type, expression } = getAssertionTypeAndExpression(node);
+        const { type } = getAssertionTypeAndExpression(node);
         const errNode = isParenthesizedExpression(node) ? type : node;
-        const exprType = getRegularTypeOfObjectLiteral(getBaseTypeOfLiteralType(checkExpression(expression)));
+        const links = getNodeLinks(node);
+        Debug.assertIsDefined(links.assertionExpressionType);
+        const exprType = getRegularTypeOfObjectLiteral(getBaseTypeOfLiteralType(links.assertionExpressionType));
         const targetType = getTypeFromTypeNode(type);
         if (!isErrorType(targetType)) {
             addLazyDiagnostic(() => {
diff --git a/src/compiler/types.ts b/src/compiler/types.ts
index 097efb5cc3eed..b30bd455d5c3f 100644
--- a/src/compiler/types.ts
+++ b/src/compiler/types.ts
@@ -6060,6 +6060,7 @@ export interface NodeLinks {
     spreadIndices?: { first: number | undefined, last: number | undefined }; // Indices of first and last spread elements in array literal
     parameterInitializerContainsUndefined?: boolean; // True if this is a parameter declaration whose type annotation contains "undefined".
     fakeScopeForSignatureDeclaration?: boolean; // True if this is a fake scope injected into an enclosing declaration chain.
+    assertionExpressionType?: Type;     // Cached type of the expression of a type assertion
 }
 
 /** @internal */