{"id":1532020,"date":"2022-06-29T08:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532020"},"modified":"2022-06-29T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:19:40","slug":"new-j6-narrative-about-trump-and-secret-service-collapses-hours-after-tuesday-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-j6-narrative-about-trump-and-secret-service-collapses-hours-after-tuesday-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"New J6 Narrative About Trump And Secret Service Collapses Hours After Tuesday Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-j6-narrative-about-trump-and-secret-service-collapses-hours-after-tuesday-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1532020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Democrats ginned up another round of blockbuster anticipation Monday night when the Select Committee on Jan. 6 announced a last-minute hearing with a surprise witness.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the nine-member panel brought forward a key aide to former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, who supposedly possessed intimate knowledge of the administration\u2019s conduct on Jan. 6. The topic of the afternoon hearing remained under seal until Hutchinson took the stand to offer new bombshell evidence allegedly incriminating the former Republican president. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp until now, our hearings have each been organized to address specific elements of President Trump\u2019s plan to overturn the 2020 election,\u201d Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said at the onset of the panel\u2019s latest show trial. \u201cToday we are departing somewhat from that model because Ms. Hutchinson\u2019s testimony touches on several important and cross-cutting topics, topics that are relevant to each of our future hearings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Cheney, Hutchinson \u201chandled a vast number of sensitive issues\u201d working \u201csteps down the hall from the Oval Office\u201d and \u201cworked on a daily basis with members of the Secret Service who were posted in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, Ms. Hutchinson was in a position to know a great deal about the happenings in the Trump White House,\u201d Cheney said. <\/p>\n<p>The ensuing testimony was \u201cdevastating,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/06\/cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-against-trump-is-devastating\/\">according<\/a> to National Review\u2019s resident Cheney-cheerleader Andrew McCarthy in a post published even after the committee\u2019s new narrative fell apart. <\/p>\n<p>In her more than two-hours of uncorroborated commentary, just about all of which was based on hearsay, Hutchinson depicted an image of an unhinged president who was not only complicit in his supporters ransacking the Capitol but was eager to attend the spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what he personally wanted to do when he went up to the Capitol that day,\u201d she said in a portion of a taped interview played at the hearing. \u201cI know that there were discussions about him having another speech outside of the Capitol before going in. I know that there was a conversation about him going into the House chamber at one point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Testifying in public, Hutchinson went further, explaining to lawmakers in the clip below that Trump threw a violent tantrum when the Secret Service refused to allow the president go to the Capitol as supporters swarmed the complex. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"x5XsnF7YyLlMh8gOmB9EuvWzINA1G4fHC0wDKj\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that she was told that as then-President Donald Trump was being driven back to the White House after the Jan. 6 rally that he demanded to be taken to the Capitol and tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JefVhEsY0b\">https:\/\/t.co\/JefVhEsY0b<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uUyQcnSlLG\">pic.twitter.com\/uUyQcnSlLG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1541847020272484354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe president said something to the effect of, \u2018I\u2019m the f\u2019ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,&#8217;\u201d Hutchinson said, citing a conversation with then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato, who apparently described a scene in the Beast between Trump and Secret Service Special Agent Bobby Engel. \u201cThe president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, \u2018Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we\u2019re going back to the West Wing. We\u2019re not going to the Capitol.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel,\u201d Hutchinson continued. \u201cAnd Mr. \u2014 when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moments after the Hutchinson\u2019s testimony, NBC\u2019s Chief White House Correspondent Peter Alexander <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterAlexander\/status\/1541910389289635841?s=20&#038;t=Tvaip-48DtkZminETvp-CQ\">reported<\/a> \u201ca source close to the Secret Service tells me both Bobby Engel, the lead agent, and the presidential limousine\/SUV driver are prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Peter-Alexander-Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274815\" width=\"639\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Peter-Alexander-Tweet.jpg 905w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Peter-Alexander-Tweet-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Peter-Alexander-Tweet-768x397-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>CBS News followed up with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NicoleSganga\/status\/1541921124031799297?s=20&#038;t=R3GbmqSnH0Gk7E2O4tG9lA\">confirmation<\/a>\u201d of the agency\u2019s categorical denial, likely from the same sources. <\/p>\n<p>Hours later, another pillar of Hutchinson\u2019s testimony fell apart when a spokesman for Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/trump-white-house-attorney-disputes-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony\/story?id=85898838\">told<\/a> ABC News a handwritten note for which Hutchinson claimed authorship was actually written by Herschmann. <\/p>\n<p>The note, displayed by Cheney as an exhibit, included a statement for the president to read as the riot unfolded on Capitol Hill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,\u201d a spokesperson for Herschmann told ABC News Tuesday night. \u201cAll sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats ginned up another round of blockbuster anticipation Monday night when the Select Committee on Jan. 6 announced a last-minute hearing with a surprise witness. On Tuesday, the nine-member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}