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Trump asks if star J6 witness will be prosecuted for ‘fake’ limo testimony

March 19, 2024 | | Print Article

The vaunted January 6 committee’s narrative of what really happened at the Capitol and why is rapidly unraveling and former President Donald J. Trump is looking for scalps.

The presumptive Republican nominee has already called for the sham tribunal’s public face, former congresswoman Liz Cheney, to be jailed and on Monday, he took aim at the committee’s star witness, one whose sensational testimony was recently debunked.

“Our great Secret Service has totally CRUSHED Cassidy Hutchinson’s (who I barely knew) made up (FAKE!) stories about me roughing up Secret Service Agents from the back seat of the Beast (Limo). Has she now changed her testimony?” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

(SG: Truth Social)

“Will she be prosecuted for what she did and said? What about the Unselect J6 Committee,” he asked. “They destroyed almost everything, including real evidence and findings. What’s going to happen with them – Serious crimes have been committed?”

Hutchinson, a former aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, was trotted out by Cheney as a surprise witness during a June 2022 unscheduled hearing that drew heavy buzz, and she didn’t disappoint with her wild tale about the former president’s alleged actions toward Secret Service agents in the presidential limousine.

In her truth-challenged testimony, Hutchinson spoke of an allegedly crazed Trump who lunged at the steering wheel of “The Beast,” attacked the Secret Service, and threw his lunch against the wall, forcing her to wipe up the ketchup stains, a lurid detail that the media ate up.

“I remember hearing noise coming from down the hallway so I poked my head out of the office and I saw the valet walking towards our office,” she told Cheney during the hearing.”He had said ‘get the chief down to the dining room, the president wants him’ so Mark went down to the dining room, came back to the office a few minutes later, after Mark had returned, I left the office and went down to the dining room and I noticed that the door was propped open.”

“And the valet was inside the dining room changing the tablecloth off of the dining room table,” she continued. “He motioned for me to come in, and then pointed towards the front of the room where the fireplace mantle and the TV were, I first noticed that there was ketchup dripping down the wall, and there’s a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.”

Her story about “The Beast” was exposed as a fabrication in a newly released report from the House Administration Committee’s oversight subcommittee found that  “heavily redacted” transcribed interviews from White House employees, found that their accounts “did not corroborate Hutchinson’s.”

“None of the White House Employees corroborated Hutchinson’s sensational story about President Trump lunging for the steering wheel of the Beast,” according to the report.

It is unclear whether the story about the ketchup was also a lie.

A complete nobody before her star-making turn in front of the committee, Hutchinson was rewarded with a book deal along with celebrity status in the media. She was also one of a trio of former female Trump White House aides who were served up by ABC News as a New Year’s Eve special to warn that he was a threat to democracy.

Trump first noted Hutchinson’s lack of credibility in an exchange with Cheney over the weekend.

Will she be prosecuted? Will Cheney and her J6 co-conspirators be jailed? Perhaps in a country with a functional legal system, but unfortunately, that no longer exists in America.

Chris Donaldson
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