Dems and most of their enablers in the media won’t admit it, but the January 6 Committee has a real credibility problem over Cassidy Hutchinson’s disputed testimony from Tuesday, both the limo story and the “note” she says she wrote but was really written by White House lawyer Eric Herschmann:
Whatever you think of Trump, trotting out a "surprise witness" who has critical parts of her testimony that could easily been checked and is debunked in hours — speaks to the Jan 6 committee's competence and motivations. Not good.
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 29, 2022
Oh, but it gets worse. The latest is the January 6 Committee never even bothered to reach out to the United States Secret Service to confirm the limo story:
New: USSS Spox Anthony Guglielmi tells me that in the 10 days before the Hutchinson hearing, the Jan. 6 committee did not reach out for more details regarding the Beast ride.
Story TK
— Betsy Woodruff Swan (@woodruffbets) June 29, 2022
“What a giant sham”:
The J6 Committee made a giant public spectacle out of something Cassidy Hutchinson says somebody in the Secret Service told her and didn't even reach out to them to corroborate it, while knowingly allowing her to commit perjury.
Shut the whole thing down. What a giant sham. https://t.co/lgLrHP7GeL
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 29, 2022
But it’s not just conservatives pointing out the committee may have a credibility problem.
Here’s Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman, calling it “interesting” that the committee “had her testify about” the alleged limo incident”
What's so interesting about this anecdote is its the one anecdote that Hutchinson said she heard second hand. She didn't witness this incident — and said so. Interesting that the committee had her testify about that. https://t.co/vUxPwqnFuF
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 29, 2022
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman added, the “committee also meticulously maps these hearings, so a key is why did they want this in there”:
This was not something she presented as something she knew first-hand. The committee also meticulously maps these hearings, so a key is why did they want this in there https://t.co/WpPaDhVFqD
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 29, 2022
Now, we’re just spitballing here, but maybe — JUST MAYBE — the limo story was in there because highly-partisan staffers jumped on the “too-good-to-check” anecdote because they knew it would play well with the “digital-era dramatics”?
Juicy read from @mikeallen: Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics
1. Single storyline, compelling Republican witnesses
2. Videotaped depositions (vs written transcripts)
3. Cliffhanger teases
4. ABC producer uses TV-like graphicshttps://t.co/rIqBrEZfkV— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) June 29, 2022
But, hey, we may never know!
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