There’s a basic rule that I think should be applied to any fantastical story that the media or Democrats drop against President Donald Trump.
Wait 48 hours–because by the end of that time, the story will have fallen apart.
On Tuesday, we saw this with the alleged bombshell testimony Democrats claimed to have received from Cassidy Hutchinson. One immediately had to wonder what she meant. It was possible to picture that Trump, sitting in the back of his tricked out limo called The Beast, managed to climb another set seats between himself and the driver. This allowed him to get around agents to grab the steering wheel. It seemed like Trump was being given superhuman powers by this scenario. When the Jan. 6 Committee then claimed Trump and the agents were in a Surburban — not the limo known as The Beast — that raised another problem, since that seemed to conflict with what Hutchinson said the agent said about it happening in The Beast. That’s one problem with repeating a story about an incident that you didn’t see yourself. There were media reports that agents claimed the story wasn’t true and were available to testify. The story didn’t even make it a day without imploding.
Given all that we have seen with the lies against Trump over the years, you learn — or at least you should learn — that you should not jump on whatever the current false story is.
However, despite all that, people still loved this idea, especially Never Trump supporters.
You could also find the familiar suspects.
In a few decades, people will ask each other “Where was Cassidy Hutchinson when you testified?”
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) June 28, 2022
George, for how many hours? It was only a few hours ago that it burst. While we might remember her for a while, not as much as you would think.
Never in my life has a Congressional hearing been more damaging to a president. Never.
This makes Watergate’s darkest moments look like a bridge club meeting.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 28, 2022
Rick, you might want to reconsider that.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) even shared an article on Hutchinson’s testimony by Never Trumper David French, with the hot take title, “The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger.”
The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger https://t.co/qFm2fiJZsM
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) June 29, 2022
“A smoking gun?” What, for the billionth time? It’s not so.
There is nothing like Never Trump people working together to support each other. No, the case for kicking the Jan. 6 Committee to the curb just got much stronger because of how they hosed their credibility with this story, and showed how little the Committee is vetting things–if they think it can hurt Trump. As a response to Cheney’s tweet, many people let Cheney know.
When the story began to blow up, French still tried to salvage Hutchinson’s testimony as being worth something.
If you are focusing solely on the (contested), allegation that the victim was lunging or choking in a legal matter you will be focusing incorrectly. There was different evidence that matters far more, and it’s directly relevant to a potential prosecution: https://t.co/JaLR8jwlru
— David French (@DavidAFrench) June 28, 2022
The problem of course is that when you say things that aren’t the case, it tends to cloud the rest of your testimony.
The hatred for Trump has so broken folks like French, that they no longer apply common sense — the lure of getting Trump overwhelms all.
This story also snared Fox’s Bret Baier and NRO’s Andrew McCarthy. Baier called the testimony “very compelling” and “really really powerful.” He claimed that she was “under oath and Trump who disputed her claims was “on Truth Social.” McCarthy tweeted an article that the testimony was “devastating” –long after it had been undercut. A healthy proportion of people responded to him about that.
Erick Erickson has it just right.
They are doing a disservice to the Lord by treating testimony like gospel right out of the gate.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) June 29, 2022
That’s the bottom line. It shouldn’t be about the narrative or getting Trump, but about the truth. The Committee killed their credibility, and the media that didn’t adequately question it also did themselves in.
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