Efforts to indict a kangaroo court’s star witness for allegedly lying to Congress reportedly fizzled out Tuesday despite the Justice Department’s efforts.
Amid the heavily produced and much ballyhooed affair that was the House January 6 sham committee, one testimony stood out as a “bombshell” that wasn’t. Though the DOJ pursued an indictment, The Washington Post indicated that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and her dramatic secondhand tale about President Donald Trump would not be called before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.
According to the newspaper, DOJ Civil Rights Division acting senior litigation counsel Neville S. Hedley “told U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui that the grand jury had not concurred on the proposed indictment. Hedley did not specify the indictment, but people familiar said he was referring to Hutchinson.”
As was reported earlier this month, the Justice Department was pursuing criminal charges against Hutchinson, who infamously claimed that Trump, while being chauffeured back from his Jan. 6, 2021 speech on the National Mall, attempted to grab the steering wheel and lunged at a U.S. Secret Service agent.
The Post went on to contend, “It is exceedingly rare for grand juries to reject indictments, in part because prosecutors only need to convince a majority of grand jurors that there is probable cause that a crime was committed — a relatively low threshold.”
“But the Justice Department’s campaign to target Trump’s perceived adversaries has repeatedly been rebuffed by grand juries and judges, including in February, when another federal grand jury in D.C. refused to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members,” added the report, referencing the failed attempt to indict the members of the “Seditious Six.”
Grand jury refuses to indict ‘Seditious Six’ lawmakers who encouraged US military to refuse orders https://t.co/dYFPgXDBJJ
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) February 11, 2026
The grand jury decision came less than three months after Democrat Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, along with Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania had released their video telling U.S. service members, “You must refuse illegal orders.”
Crow was quick to politicize the news on Hutchinson by asserting, “Fear is contagious, but so is courage. Cassidy Hutchinson bravely testified under oath about the January 6th insurrection. And today’s grand jury showed true courage in rejecting Trump’s abuses of power. Everyday citizens are standing up and holding this reckless President accountable.”
Fear is contagious, but so is courage.
Cassidy Hutchinson bravely testified under oath about the January 6th insurrection.
And today’s grand jury showed true courage in rejecting Trump’s abuses of power.
Everyday citizens are standing up and holding this reckless President accountable.
— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) October 27, 2026
Worth remembering, nearly two years after the Jan. 6 committee was concluded, the vice chair, former Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney — one of two so-called Republicans on the committee — was referred for prosecution over alleged communications between her and Hutchinson perceived as “evidence of collusion” and witness tampering. As it happened, Cheney herself had previously told ABC News that “anybody attempting to influence witness testimony” could see a “criminal referral to the Justice Department.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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