The New York Times ran a non-paywalled story yesterday with the completely misleading headline, “
Testimony Fleshes Out Account of Trump’s Demand to Go to Capitol on Jan. 6.” Get ready for a serious eye-roll.
The actual news, which you will be forgiven for not immediately grasping after reading the Times’ article, was that
a House committee investigating the January 6th committee released a sweeping, 81-page report yesterday. Among many other things, the report explained that four other White House employees
with better knowledge contradicted the J6 Committee’s star witness Cassidy Hutchinson’s dramatic testimony — but the Committee only aired Cassidy’s version.
The J6 Committee buried the other evidence under a mountain of red tape where they hoped it would never be found.
But among many other new documents reviewed by the House Oversight Committee were never-before-seen transcripts of several Secret Service depositions from the January 6th investigations. The Times’ carefully crafted narrative was the transcripts “fleshed out” the evidence the J6 Committee aired to the public on its January 6th show.
Apparently, to the Times, “fleshed out” now means “contradicted.” You may recall former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who in June 2022 dramatically testified third hand that President Trump demanded to be taken straight to the Capitol on January 6th, and when Secret Service agents demurred, Trump lunged into the Presidential SUV’s front seat and grabbed the wheel for himself.
Nothing about that dumb story made sense. How was Trump going to drive the Beast from the back seat? Why couldn’t the driver just have stepped on the brake? Nevertheless, corporate media lapped up, repeated, and amplified Hutchinson’s testimony. Thrilling op-eds were penned by delirious conservative Never Trumpers extolling Cassidy’s admirable bravery and keen insight. For example, here’s Peggy Noonan waxing eloquent about Cassidy in the Wall Street Journal:
Cassidy even wrote a tell-all book about her ‘heroic’ experience working for Mark Meadows and eavesdropping on everyone she worked with.
Well, the newly-disclosed transcripts show the Secret Service agent who was driving Trump on January 6th testified the whole back-seat-driving thing
never happened. Trying to be helpful, he did testify that Trump might have sounded a “little irritated,” but there was no
lunging into the front seat.
Cassidy lied.
Worse, at the time the January 6th Committee breathlessly spammed Cassidy Hutchinson’s prime-time television testimony,
the Committee knew that the Agent driving the Beast swore it never happened.
House Republicans
only just now received the Secret Service interviews. The transcripts been held up in deep state bureaucracy
for two years “for review” — allegedly to prevent accidental disclosure of important presidential security information.
But the transcript only takes about a half hour to read and doesn’t include any secret security details. It still took
two years to clear.
The House’s terrific report is titled, ‘Initial Findings Report: On the failures and politicization of the January 6th Select Committee and the activities on and leading up to January 6th, 2021. It includes a lot more than just the problems with Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. Read the report for yourself.
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