On Tuesday, we saw many things that were able to undermine Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about the Jan. 6 incident in which a man and an agent got into a fight. She was relating what she claimed that she heard from someone else — acknowledging that she did not see the incident herself. CNN reported that her source of information, who claimed she heard the incident from him, is now refusing to tell her. Others are also commenting, saying that Secret Service sources are saying there are people in the car who can testify it didn’t happen.
Now there’s more. Hutchinson told Rep. Liz Cheney, (R-WY), that during her testimony she wrote a letter for Mark Meadows, former White House Chief Staff Officer regarding a statement President Donald Trump needed to make concerning the unfolding riot. The Committee was told that the note was in her handwriting.
At Tuesday’s hearing, Hutchinson, testifying about the note, said, “That’s a note that I wrote at the direction of the chief of staff on Jan. 6, likely around 3 o’clock.”
“And it’s written on the chief of staff note card, but that’s your handwriting, Ms. Hutchinson?” Rep. Cheney asked.
“That’s my handwriting,” Hutchinson replied.
Hutchinson is a former Meadows top adviser and said Meadows handed her a note card with a pen. She then began to dictate a potential statement that Trump would release in the Capitol Riot.
Eric Herschmann, a former Trump White House lawyer, now claims that the note was written by him. In fact, he had previously told the Committee that it was he who wrote it.
“The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” a spokesperson for Herschmann told ABC News Tuesday evening.
“All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann,” the spokesperson said.
Whoops. What is the Committee doing? Like the story about which car the struggle supposedly happened in, they can’t seem to present a straight story about who did what when — once again, the problem when your aim isn’t the truth, but simply to get Trump.
Hutchinson’s undercutting was saved by the Committee.
In response to Herschmann’s claim, a spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee said, “The committee has done its diligence on this and found Ms. Hutchinson’s account of this matter credible. While we understand that she and Mr. Herschmann may have differing recollections of who wrote the note, what’s ultimately important is that both White House officials believed that the President should have immediately instructed his supporters to leave the Capitol building.”
It is not true. There is only one real truth. It is either she wrote it, or she didn’t. It is a false claim that she wrote it when she didn’t. This undermines her story, and raises questions about what she has to say. If Herschmann previously testified that he wrote the note, then no, they didn’t do their “due diligence.” Just like the question about what happened in the car where they don’t appear to have checked with the Secret Service as to the validity of the story, if what the media is reporting is now true.
It was impossible to lower their credibility, and the Committee has done it.
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