Cassidy Hutchinson and the January 6 Committee Hatchet Job - Part One
If anyone needed more proof the J6 Committee was a pure political gamesmanship, look no further than Cassidy Hutchinson
This is not the first time I wrote about the political farce called the “January 6 Committee.” I wrote about the highly dubious Chairman of the J6 Committee in a previous substack article. I also wrote about various pieces of misinformation pushed by the J6 Committee in Volume One of Fake News Exposed about Trump, just for starters. This two part article deals with Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House staffer and the so-called “Star Witness” of the J6 Committee show hearings. Some “Star Witness.” Hutchinson has zero credibility and her “statements” to the J6 Committee are ridiculous. Let’s take a closer look.
The January 6 Committee
The January 6 Committee, formally known as the “Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” was established by the Democrat majority in the United States House of Representatives to, supposedly, conduct an investigation into the January 2, 2021, U.S. Capitol Riot. Critics claim the J6 Committee was a rabidly partisan witch hunt designed and intended to create anti-Trump political narratives surrounding the events of January 6. What is the truth? The misuse of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson proves the J6 Committee was a hatchet job intended to harm President Trump and Republicans. Let’s take a closer look at Cassidy Hutchinson and the J6 Committee’s manipulations surrounding her interviews.
Hutchinson’s Most Sensational Claim
During a televised appearance before the J6 Committee on June 28, 2022, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson made several claims about President Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021, including claiming President Trump attacked the driver of his limousine (the limo is known as “the beast”) and lunged at the wheel when he learned his Secret Service detail was not taking him to the U.S. Capitol after his speech.
The Fake News Media kicked into overdrive proclaiming the Cassidy Hutchinson’s interview “changes everything” (The New York Times), that her appearance before the J6 Committee was “explosive” and “damning” (The Washington Post) and that Hutchinson is the “new John Dean” (the White House Counsel who testified in the Nixon Watergate hearings)(The Boston Globe). Other Fake News outlets highlighted claims that Trump “attacked” the Secret Service agent (The Los Angeles Times) or that “Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in rage,” (CNBC). You get the picture. The Fake News Media pounced on the story with glee and spread the sensational details far and wide.
Problems with Hutchinson’s Claims
Cassidy Hutchinson did not witness these events. In fact, she did not even base her claims on anyone who witnessed the events. She repeated (1) what she was supposedly told by (2) someone else who was supposedly told by (3) someone else about what supposedly happened. I am not making this up. This outlandish nonsense was peddled by Liz Cheney, the J6 Committee generally and the Fake News Media as devastating “evidence.” But, these looney claims get worse.
Hutchinson claims Tony Ornato, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations at the time, supposedly told her what one of the people in the vehicle supposedly told him. (I literally cannot believe I wrote that last sentence. These people have no shame.) Tony Ornato and the Secret Service agent driving the vehicle dispute Hutchinson’s claims, but the January 6 Committee never told the American people, though they interviewed both Ornato and the Secret Service agent. (Like I said, these people have no shame.)
Hutchinson’s Claims Were Hearsay-within-Hearsay
Hutchinson does not present ordinary hearsay testimony. Hearsay would be what someone who witnessed the event told her. Her version of events is actually “hearsay, within hearsay, within hearsay.” Hearsay is generally not admissible in court, because it is a fundamentally unreliable and incompetent form of evidence. Hutchinson’s version of events is considerably more unreliable than ordinary hearsay.
What a farce. Still, there is more.
The Secret Service Agent and Tony Ornato Dispute Her Story
The January 6 Committee interviewed Tony Ornato, but did not make the interview public and did not include his statement in their report. Shortly after the Hutchinson hearing in June 2022, multiple news outlets reported that Tony Ornato, Secret Service Agent Bobby Engel and the Secret Service agent-driver were ready and willing to testify under oath and flatly deny Hutchinson’s nonsense about President Trump attacking the driver and lunging for the wheel. See The Hill, Hot Air and The Daily Mail. Those reports proved to be accurate.
The recent report from the House Subcommittee on Oversight, which is investigating the abuses of the January 6 Committee, confirmed all of the witnesses dispute Hutchinson's claims.
In Tony Ornato’s J6 Committee interview, during questioning by none other than Liz Cheney, Mr. Ornato denied telling Hutchinson any of this nonsense and stated his “. . . first time hearing it is when she said it” during the J6 Committee hearing. (See Report, pg. 34.)
In addition, the J6 Committee interviewed the actual U.S. Secret Service agent who drove for President Trump on January 6, 2021. (The name of this Secret Service agent is not being released.) The Secret Service agent testified President Trump “. . . never grabbed the steering wheel” and that the agent did not see President Trump “lunge” or “try to get into the front seat at all.” (See Report, pgs. 34-35.)
The January 6 Committee did not release the testimony from Ornato or the Secret Service agent to the public, instead choosing to sensationalize the inconsistent statements of Cassidy Hutchinson, initially without verifying it, then later despite knowing her statements were directly contradicted by the testimony of those with personal knowledge of what actually happened.
Hutchinson Did Not Disclose These Details Until Her Fourth Interview
The televised production on June 28, 2022, in which Cassidy Hutchinson “testified” (this was not real testimony, but an odd cumulation of video and rambling speech) was not her first time to speak to the committee. That was her fifth appearance. See The New York Times, The Washington Examiner and the House Subcommittee Report.
Hutchinson only offered her story about President Trump supposedly attacking the Secret Service in the limo and trying to grab the wheel in her fourth interview. This is covered extensively in The Washington Examiner article and the House Subcommittee Report. These sensational claims were not made the first three times she was interviewed by the Committee. These facts are devastating to her credibility and to what little credibility remains of the J6 Committee and its shameful members.
Hutchinson’s Alterations to her “testimony”
Another fact the J6 Committee did not share with the American public about Hutchinson’s “testimony” was on September 12, 2022, after her four “interviews” with the J6 Committee (one on February 23, 2022 and others on March 7, 2022, May 17, 2022 and June 20, 2022) and after the televised sideshow of a public “hearing” on June 28, 2022, she submitted one 15 page document making substantive changes to all four of her previous statements.
This supposedly “credible, star witness” submitted 15 pages of changes to her previous interviews. (See Report, pgs. 39-45.) Many of the changes are substantive, consisting of material alterations to her previous statements. The J6 Committee never disclosed these changes to the American people, probably because doing so would have further devastated Hutchinson’s already damaged credibility.
These problems are more than enough to demonstrate that Hutchinson’s “story” was exactly that, fiction. The fact the January 6 Committee promoted it to the American people in a live television broadcast, despite knowing the TV statements contradicted three prior statements, without informing the American public about the prior inconsistent statements and without even attempting to verify any truth to her claims from actual witnesses with knowledge of the events in question, confirms the Committee was concerned only with grabbing negative headlines for President Trump and painting him in as negative way as possible.
There are more facts and circumstances undermining Cassidy Hutchinson’s statements to the January 6 Committee. Part Two of this article will deal with many of the rest of the problems with her “story.”
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Daniel - Do any of the people Hutchinson talks about, specifically the USSS driver and Bobby Engel, have legal claims against her?