Just the News is reporting that the January 6th Committee rebuffed repeated efforts from a Secret Service agent to refute the false story related by Cassidy Hutchinson alleging a violent episode with Trump in the presidential limousine during the Capitol riots. The J6 Committee staff repeatedly delayed the testimony of the agent to disprove the widely reported allegation.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House subcommittee that is investigating the Jan. 6 riot, has obtained a transcript of the driver’s interview that was conducted months after he first offered to testify. However, it turns out that committee staff were asked repeatedly by counsel for the agent to let him present evidence debunking the claim. Despite being reported by virtually every news outlet, the Committee slow walked his appearance as the story went viral.
The transcript of the driver’s testimony contains express objections by the lawyer that his client had offered to testify in July, August and September of 2022, but was “rebuffed” by the committee.
The account reaffirms a major criticism of the committee. After Democrats refused to allow the GOP to pick its members (as a long-accepted practice in the House), the Democrats selected two anti-Trump Republicans who did little to push for a full and fair display of witnesses and facts. The Committee was chaired by Rep. Benny Thompson, a Democrat, with Rep. Liz Cheney, as Vice Chairwoman.
Cheney and the committee members clearly knew that Hutchinson’s account was debunked by the very driver who allegedly struggled with Trump. Yet, they allowed the media to report the incident for months while rebuffing the requests of the driver. Loudermilk is quoted as saying “We’re talking about the driver of the limousine, and the head of the entire protective detail. They were brought in by the select committee to testify, but they weren’t brought in until November.”
The false account was given by Hutchinson in June of that year.
The Secret Service driver testified Trump never tried to reach for or grab the wheel of the SUV.
Notably, the transcript shows Cheney trying to explain the delay as due to the need for the Secret Service to produce all documents in the January 6 investigation.
Yet, she had no problem with making the false story public through Hutchinson before such supporting material was supplied. She also did not suggest any countervailing testimony or witnesses on the issue as the media ran with the account. Instead, Cheney publicly teased the claim that they had much more evidence of crimes against Trump, which never materialized. Cheney ended one hearing by calling for more officials to come forward and noting that Trump family members and former officials have now come forward with their own public “confessions.”
Many of us support the effort to bring greater transparency to what occurred on Jan. 6th and these hearings have offered a great deal of important new information. Indeed, it has proven gut-wrenching in the accounts of lawyers and staff trying to combat baseless theories and to protect the constitutional process.
Yet, the heavy-handed approach to framing the evidence by the Committee was both unnecessary and at times counterproductive. The strength of some of this evidence would not have been diminished by a more balanced committee or investigation.
We previously discussed the highly scripted and entirely one-sided presentation of evidence in the Committee. Indeed, witnesses were primarily used to present what Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to as “the narrative” where their prior videotaped testimony was shown and they were given narrow follow-up questions. They at times seemed more like props than witnesses — called effectively to recite prior statements between well-crafted, impactful video clips. It had the feel of a news package, which may be the result of the decision to bring in a former ABC executive to produce the hearings.
That framing led to glaring omissions. The Committee routinely edited videotapes and crafted presentations to eliminate alternative explanations or opposing viewpoints like repeatedly editing out Trump telling his supporters to go to the Capitol peacefully.
What is striking was that offering a more balanced account, including allowing the Republicans to appoint their own members (in accordance with long-standing tradition), would not have lessened much of this stunning testimony. Yet, allowing Republicans to pick their members (yes, including Rep. Jim Jordan) would have prevented allegations of a highly choreographed show trial. It would have added credibility to the process.
If the Committee had a single member with a dissenting or even skeptical viewpoint, testimony on issues like the fight in the presidential limo could have been challenged before it was thrown before the world.
That was clearly not in the interests of the J6 Committee or the media, which eagerly spread this false account.
The driver didn’t refute Hutchinson’s testimony. Hutchinson testified that she was told that Trump reached for the wheel, she never said she saw Trump reach for the wheel. The only person who could refute her testimony was the person who made she claimed made the statement.
Anonymous said: “Hutchinson testified that she was told that Trump reached for the wheel, she never said she saw Trump reach for the wheel.”
So, if this hearing was a serious investigation, why did they invite a witness to testify, knowing that all she had to offer was hearsay? Rhetorical question, we all know the answer: the hearing was a completely concocted fraud with a foregone false conclusion, right from the get-go.
“Hutchinson testified that she was told … she never said she saw”
Yet you took her argument and told everyone else the reports from the Secret Service were wrong. Thank you for highlighting your ignorance and gullibility that continues to this day.
And he said he never told her that
Oops
All you have done is demonstrate why courts rarely allow hearsay.
Did Hutchinson perjure herself ? Maybe not.
Did the event she describe occur – certainly not.
Fauci scientific perjurer in chief
James Comer trafficking in marijuana from China then covering it up when he was Ag Commissioner of KY?
Nope, not shocked.
Sorry, not quite accurate. Correction follows.
It was hemp with illegally high amounts of THC.
He helped his friend import it from China.
His friend who had previously been convicted of marijuana trafficking,
YAWN
Lez Cheney should be ‘put to sleep’. Maybe her daddy can take her along bird hunting….but this time— DO NOT MISS!
When asked in the big Fox interview if he would declassify the Epstein files, Trump looked more panicked than people in the exit row of a Boeing flight
LOL that is true.
He wont. The rest if the people on that list are irrelevant now.
Sorry for you, libtard.
Lez Cheney needs to be ‘put to sleep’. Maybe her daddy can take her bird hunting….but this time, DON’T MISS!
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America…”
into the most corrupt, banana republic, s—hole country on the planet.
– Barack Obama
Days before J6, Trump authorised deployment of at least 10k National Guard troops. The offer was conveyed to Bowser and Pelosi. Both turned it down. That is why the Capitol Police lost control of the situation.
Offering to deploy the National Guard is hardly the act of a man seeking to foment an insurrection.
Daniel,
Well said.
It is almost as if they wanted there to be a riot.
I’ve gotta say the image of Trump grabbing the wheel is kinda dope in an OG street cred kind of way (yes I have teenagers at home). Reminds me of when W was in some random South American country and his secret service man was getting blocked. W muscled his way through the crowd and grabbed his body guard. The South American SS men were stunned and it made me legit proud. Just compare that to our current comatose corpse of a commander in chief who all he can do is slur gibberish, get lost trying to exit an empty stage, fall down for no apparent reason, and grin insanely when asked a question that he doesn’t even understand. No thanks, give me an assertive wheel grabber who prioritizes American interests on the world stage.
You might find the following discussion interesting regarding the COVID virus. Alina Chan has been one of the main scientific leaders on this topic
https://x.com/Ayjchan/status/1798398338372641142
Alina Chan
@Ayjchan
On the difficulty of determining whether a virus came from a lab, Ralph Baric gave a rare interview in 2020.
Coronaviruses could be synthesized in the lab, leaving no trace. We do not know what virus sequences had been collected by Wuhan scientists.
A good read on this issue, pointing out why even the most cutting edge research programs cannot reliably tell you if a novel virus came from a lab.
The key limitation is a lack of access to unpublished sequences.
Estovir said: Alina Chan said: Ralph Baric said: “Coronaviruses could be synthesized in the lab, leaving no trace.”
Evidently the “furan cleavage site” is a signifcant indicator (i.e., “trace”), at least for the group of coronaviruses that include COVID-19, but I’m not certain that was known or suspected in 2020.
It was known in early 2020 that attributes of the virus – specifically the furan cleavage site were highly unlikely to be natural.
Lab development ALWAYS leaves a trace, the trace is quite simple. The absence of intermediaries in nature.
WE SAW how Covid mutated from 2020-today. Every tiny changes was observed.
There are only two giant leaps – the first is the huge distance between any natural corona virus and Wuhan Covid 19
The secod was the jump from Wuhan Covid to the early strains of Omicron. The latter left no trace of development in nature and had a change rates that was a full order of magnitude faster than anything that occured in nature.
It is near certain that Omicron developed in a relatively small and contained group of mice – almost certainly in a lab.
While it might not have been intentional. That large a changes could not have happened that rapidly in humans.
There is BTW a theory that Omocron is actually a human developed Covid “Vaccine” – it is far less deadly and far more contageous and it rapidly outcompeted more deadly forms of Covid.
Yes, one of the serious flaws in the story from the start was – Even If True, all it means is that Trump wanted to be present for the peaceful protests at the capital.
Had he been there – almost certainly the violence would have been averted.
Say it ain’t so Joe. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has come out against President Biden’s reported plans to issue an executive order to curb record-setting migrant crossings on the southern border — a move the “Squad” lawmaker said would put him in league with his likely 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump. Losing on an issue? Just change your policy. The question will be whether Joe Biden will enforce his new directive. Anybody want to make a bet?
Like his enforcement of sanctions against Iran?
TiT,
No bet!
Yea, the white house forgot to tell AOC that its a hoax
Maybe she was out having her nails done at the time
Jonathan: You are kinda late to the game! MAGA Rep. Loudermilk came out this past March with his “findings”– attempting to whitewash the events of Jan. 6, 2021. Loudermilk’s attempt at revisionist history hasn’t gotten much traction because it’s based on conspiracy theories. So what do you have to add? Not much.
Even, arguendo, that DJT did not actually grab the steering wheel of his limo, does that really change anything that happened that fateful day? The testimony of all the SS detail and other witnesses stated that DJT was incensed the SS would not let him to up to the Capitol. In the end the SS did DJT a favor. Had they followed DJT’s demands what might happened? A video stream of DJT climbing the steps of the Capitol shouting “You need to fight like hell!” accompanied by the SS and members of the Proud Boys? That would not have been a pretty picture and probably would have sealed the vote in the Senate to convict DJT of inciting the insurrection!
As to whether Jim Jordan should have been on the J. 6 Select Committee you claim “allowing Republicans to pick their members (yes, including Rep. Jim Jordan) would have prevented allegations of a highly choreographed show trial”. That’s preposterous on it’s face. Jordan was one of the “bomb throwers” on J. 6. He supported DJT’s insurrection. He urged Mike Pence to refuse to count the lawful electoral votes. When the J 6 Committee issued a subpoena to Jordan to testify what did he do? Did he cooperate with the Select Committee? Nope. He refused to comply with the subpoena as did other MAGA supporters of the insurrection. Jordan would have been a “Fifth column” inside the Select Committee
trying to subvert its work. It’s bizarre you could even claim Jordan would have “added credibility to the process”. He was and to this day a part of the problem–not part of the solution. Everything he does these days in Congress lacks any credibility!
I don’t believe for a minute you are interested in “greater transparency” and a “more balanced account ” of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021. It’s all about supporting the House MAGA Representatives, like Loudermilk, who have attempted a conspiracy revisionist theory of what happened on Jan. 6. You are on a fool’s errand if you think you can re-write history. The report issued by J. 6 Select Committee is the official report of what happened. That is the report most historians will rely upon in relating the history of what happened that fateful day–not the fanciful conspiracy theories you are now peddling about a “show trial”!
“The testimony of all the SS detail and other witnesses stated that DJT was incensed the SS would not let him to up to the Capitol”
If that were True SO WHAT ? There is NOTHING wrong with Trump wanting to go to the capitol.
But like Hutchinson – you are lying. Crazy lying. You are lying about something that does not matter at all.
While Trump did NOT get incensed at the SS – and no one present testified that he did,
There would be absolutely nothing wrong with him wanting to go to the capitol.
And nothing wrong with the SS not allowing Trump to go somewhere where no matter how many of his supporters were present there were plenty of people dangerous to him.
If J6 was an insurrection – the Floyd riots were too, defund the police was, Seattle and Portland were, the Kavanaugh riots were, and the mess Biden is allowing at the Southern border is.
It would be nice if you could use words correctly.
Failure to use them consistently is hypocrisy – That is Dante’s 8th circle of hell. Only betrayal is a more vile moral abomination.
“I don’t believe for a minute you are interested in “greater transparency” and a “more balanced account ” ”
I do not care what you believe.
Long before I heard of Loudermilk I supported a REAL investigation of J6. Rather that the fraudulent Sham we have seen.
I do not care if those looking for an open transparent investigation are MAGA or even democrats – it is disturbing that democrats conducted this farce and now are trying to coverup their malfeasance.
Of course Republicans are seeking to revise our understanding of J6 – it has been evident from the start that shilled by you and the left and democrats is a fraud.
So yes, I support anyone digging for the truth.
The 50,000+ hours of video are available for your revue. Please go to the capitol and spend as much time as you want reviewing the video looking for more malfeasance.
“The report issued by J. 6 Select Committee is the official report of what happened. ”
It took 4 separate congressional investigations to get to the actual truth about Bengahzi.
Why in the world would you think that the most partisan house committee ever would find the truth or be trusted.
If you find evidence that Loudermilk is engaging in the same Sham nonsense of the rigged J6 committee – bring that up.
There are lots of things that both congress and the american people are entitled to know.
Why after Trump practically begged to have the NG present – were they rejected – and who did that ?
Why did the CP fire teargass into a peacefull crowd ?
Why wasn’t exculpatory evidence presented to J6 defendants ?
Why both related to J6 and other political prosecutions – are SWAT teams sent after unarmed and nonviolent people whose politics differ from democrats ?
Why aren’;t J6 defendants being tried in the towns they come from – by juries of their ACTUAL peers ?
Washington DC is NOT america, it is the home of millions of people who think they are entitled to public power and anyone threating that entitlement is a criminal.
Cassidy Hutchinson was Liz Cheney’s Stormy Daniels. Keeping the Secret Service Driver from testifying kind of looks like Judge Merchan not allowing the former FEC Chairman Bradley Smith to testify in President Trump’s defense. Rigged Democrat system.
Why isn’t Cassidy Hutchinson being referred to DoJ for lying to Congress?
Because she was repeating what amounts to hearsay. The real question is why the Congressional a$$cl0wn$ would accept such tenuous “evidence” and why none of them have been held to account for that.
Secret Service did their job – If the Hutchinson story was True – which it absolutely is not – Trump is free to want to go to the capitol to join the protests, and had he done so, it is highly unlikely things would have gotten so far out of hand.
All that would have been required was a post by Trump telling supporters NOT to respond to the CP improperly lobbing a tear gas grenade into a peaceful crowd.
Regardless, the SS determined that they did not have the ability to protect the president at this event.
Those of you on the left continue to downplay the claims that there were dangersou people at J6 that were not Trump supporters – despite growing evidence tot he contrary. Regardless the SS was not worried that Trump supporters were going to assassinate him.
But they were worried that people NOT Trump supporters might do violence to the current president.
And they were likely justified in doing so.
Regardless, according to US law – that is not a decision the president gets to make.
Hutchinson testified that SS agents had to fight Trump off to keep him from going to the Capitol.
While that is false – had Trump tried to force the issue – that is Exactly what they would have done.
YHet we have idiots like you trying to make a mountain out of …. absolutely nothing.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with Trump wanting to go to the capitol.
EXCEPT that the Secret Service couple not protect him from people who were dangerous to him – and that was NOT Trump supporters.
There would have been nothing wrong with the Secret Service force ably preventing Trump from going somewhere that might be dangerous.
Jan 6 riot? Excuse me? How many people died? How many have been convicted of crimes? And what was the purpose? By the number of confederate flags perhaps they were rioting because they could no longer own slaves? The purpose of the “riot” was to keep the person in office that had just lost an election. That is called an insurrection.
https://www.alternet.org/jan-6-racial-resentment-guardian/
That was not an insurrection. There was no armed force. There was no plan to take over the government. There was no plan for anything really. If it was insurrection, it lasted for all of maybe eight minutes.
Jan 6 and the 2 months leading up to Jan 6 were all about keeping the guy in office that had just lost an election. That is the definition of inusrrection.
Only a deluded left wing freak would say something that stupid.
One person was murdered for exploring the People’s House: Ashli Babbitt, and the spineless thug cop who ducked out from cover to shoot her, then slunk back into the shadows. Lt. Michael Byrd, went scot-free for his crime.
Yes they all thought a couple thousand people were gonna overthrow the us gubmemt
Ridiculous douchebag
“That is called an insurrection.”
Nope.
Did you call the pink Pu$$yhat crowd rioting when Trump was elected insurrectionists ?
If not – go straight to the 8th circle of hell as you are a hypocrite and that is where hypocrites go.
Beware of the criminal guilty verdict, too, if a jail sentence is used. The sentence could be a trap not only for Trump. The rule of law is gone.
At every turn the Republicans should compare the Jan 6 witch hunt to the New York witch hunt. Both have been perfectly choreographed from the very beginning. The leaders sang pleased to meet you I hope you guess my name. The chief leader turned and gave his grin from The Shining when he heard the song ring out. Pleased to meet you I hope you guessed my name is Joe.
I knew that the J6 committee was going to be a farce when Pelosi appointed election denier Bennie Thompson as its chair. Thompson and the Congressional Black Caucus had voted to reject Ohio’s electoral votes on January 6 2005.
I went to DC that day even though I had a strong feeling that it was a trap. I didn’t know what kind of trap but my feeling was so strong that I told my friend who I had originally planned to meet there that I wasn’t going. She’s married with kids and I didn’t want anything to happen to her. I didn’t end up going to the Capitol because it was such a cold and miserable and sad day and by the time Trump got done speaking I was beat. All the public restrooms had been closed by order of wonderful Mayor Bowser. Try and imagine all these people, many of them elderly, on a freezing cold day with no access to a restroom. Many were staying outside the city so they quite literally had no place to go. I’ve often wondered how many went in the building just to warm up and use the facilities. They treated people like cattle that day, complete with cattle prods. They shot into a peaceful crowd. One day the shameful truth will be known about that day. Professor Turley chose to believe that there was no cheating in the election because his team won but as time passes more and more information is coming out.
“They shot into a peaceful crowd” You live in an alternate reality.
The girl that was shot was climbing through a broken window into the house chamber while chants of hang Mike Pence could be herd.
So? Ashley was , at the very worst, trespassing. Hardly a reason to murder her, you sick SOB!
She was crawling through a broken window into the House Chamber. What about that do you not understand. Full blown insurrection while the mob was yelling for Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence head. She deserved what she got. Yes. In other countries when a failed insurrection happens, most of the insurrectionists are killed. In this case, the insurrections have been slapped on the wrist, be happy. and don’t do it again you SOB!
Could you be more ridiculous than the other guy. Was that your goal?
She deserved to be shot?
Moron
If you think she, being unarmed, deserved to be shot dead (which apparently you do), then you are a sick twisted Nazi freak and a complete waste of human life, not to mention a delusional PoS. Eat s—t and die a’h0le.
It seems clear that some if not all members of the J6 Committee knew that the sworn testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson most likely was false since (1) it was refuted by the Secret Service agent directly involved, and (2) it was a practical, physical impossibility for President Trump to have done what she alleged from the back seat of “the Beast”. If this is true, the sanctimonious members of the Committee were guilty of suborning perjury: “Whoever procures another to commit any perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” 18 United States Code section 1622. It has been said many times on this blog that when Democrats accuse Republicans of doing something illegal it means that the Democrats already are doing it. I never thought the childhood saying would be so true: when you point a finger at someone else for wrongdoing, remember there are three pointing back at you.
True or false makes no difference today, nor does what people believe. As California goes, so goes the nation. Ballot harvesting and the fraud it brings has destroyed the most prosperous state in the nation.
This is the fate going forward for America. Eventually the democrats will steal it all.
Chuckiechan said: “As California goes, so goes the nation.”
Californians have a vastly overinflated sense of their own importance. I’m doubtful that was ever true; considering the wholesale defections from that state by so many who have actual ability and ambition to earn their own keep, it certainly is not true now.
My apologies: I meant to say January 6, 2021. Please forgive my typo.
Thats ok. Joe still thinks it was july 6
Dear Mr. Turley, I never dreamed that I would actually visit with someone who was at the Capital on January 6, 2020. Living in Southwest Wisconsin as I do, the chances of meeting someone who was there on that day would be almost impossible, yet it happened. On the evening of Wisconsin ‘s first ever February tornado, I was at the grocery store and struck up a conversation with a woman who said she was there that day. I asked, “What was it like?” She said, “There were FBI agents everywhere. The whole thing was a set-up to get President Trump.” So, I am not at all surprised that the one-sided committee would suppress anything that would give President Trump some favor. There was one and only one agenda set out by these folks and that was to paint President Trump in the worse possible light. My hope is that he will win a resounding victory in November, and I will be doing my part, as small as it may look to the elites on the coasts.
“There were FBI agents everywhere …”
How does she know this? What is her proof? This is just anecdotal gibberish.
HER PROOF IS WHAT SHE SAW, AS IN I WITNESS.
Thanks for yelling!
According to the “J6 was a picnic” crowd, the FBI agents were supposedly undercover. So how did Miss Anecdote know they were FBI? Did she talk to them?
Again, anecdotal gibberish.