{"id":1533304,"date":"2022-06-30T08:05:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533304"},"modified":"2022-06-30T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T12:06:03","slug":"the-media-should-save-the-star-witness-label-for-people-who-actually-witnessed-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-should-save-the-star-witness-label-for-people-who-actually-witnessed-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Media Should Save The \u2018Star Witness\u2019 Label For People Who Actually Witnessed Things"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthe-media-should-save-the-star-witness-label-for-people-who-actually-witnessed-things%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=1533304&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>The corrupt corporate media haven\u2019t been able to contain their excitement about the testimony from the 25-year-old former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whom they\u2019ve called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/cassidy-hutchinson-provided-missing-piece-jan-6-committee-investigation-n1296639\">missing piece<\/a>\u201d in the sham Jan. 6 show trial. Another word they have for her? \u201cStar witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow the Jan. 6 panel\u2019s star witness drew a roadmap for Trump\u2019s culpability,\u201d said one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/28\/january-6-committee-cassidy-hutchinson-00042954\">Politico<\/a> headline on an article categorized as \u201cInsurrection Fallout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/06\/28\/jan-6-witness-cassidy-hutchinson-trump\/7758818001\/?gnt-cfr=1\">USA Today<\/a> went with \u201cJan. 6 star witness Cassidy Hutchinson torches Trump and aides,\u201d calling the testimony \u201ccombustible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-2.40.54-PM-1024x218-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-2.40.54-PM-1024x218-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-2.40.54-PM-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-2.40.54-PM-768x164.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-2.40.54-PM.png 1352w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/06\/28\/cassidy-hutchinsons-path-trusted-insider-explosive-witness\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/06\/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-committee-hearings.html\">Slate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/mark-meadows-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-is-witness-at-surprise-jan-6-hearing-report-says?ref=scroll\">The Daily Beast<\/a>, and others used the same \u201cstar witness\u201d label, with plenty of other very journalistic vocab words thrown into the mix: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3539256-live-coverage-meadows-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-to-testify-in-last-minute-jan-6-hearing\/\">dramatic<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/3541233-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-is-too-incriminating-for-the-doj-to-ignore\/\">incriminating<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/key-takeaways-cassidy-hutchinsons-bombshell-testimony-jan-committee\/story?id=85880256\">bombshell<\/a>\u201d (not to be confused with the far more salacious \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2022\/06\/trump-knew-cassidy-hutchinson-testimony-bombshell-video.html\">genuinely shocking bombshells<\/a>\u201c), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/06\/28\/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-role-jan-6-violence\">damning<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/29\/1108513190\/cassidy-hutchinson-provides-explosive-testimony-during-the-jan-6-hearing\">explosive<\/a>\u201d (with this hilarious piece from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/29\/media\/january-6-testimony-reliable-sources\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> patting itself on the back by praising the \u201cunflinching\u201d journalists covering the \u201cexplosive\u201d show trial).<\/p>\n<p>Within Hutchinson\u2019s testimony, one of the most scandalous parts the media have loved most is a story about then-President Donald Trump in his motorcade demanding to be driven to the Capitol after his rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. When Secret Service told him it wasn\u2019t safe, Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel and lunged at the neck of his security detail chief, the story goes. <\/p>\n<p>A genuinely shocking bombshell from the star witness.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Hutchinson was a witness to none of this. Her sworn testimony is that Tony Ornato, another White House aide, told her what had happened to the head of Trump\u2019s security detail, Bobby Engel. It appears Ornato was not in the car at the time either, meaning Hutchinson heard the account from Ornato, who heard the account from Engel. <\/p>\n<p>Predictably and within hours after Hutchinson\u2019s third-hand testimony, reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterAlexander\/status\/1541910389289635841\">learned<\/a> that both Engel and the driver of the presidential vehicle are \u201care prepared to testify under oath that neither man was assaulted and that Mr. Trump never lunged for the steering wheel.\u201d Her anecdote is so easily blown to smithereens.<\/p>\n<p>The entire spectacle has been one obvious left-wing trick from the start, from the inception of the nonsensical Jan. 6 committee, to the banning of Republican appointments and adversarial questioning, to the allowance of grapevine accounts of easily disproved stories so the corrupt media can run with them with wall-to-wall coverage of a \u201cstar witness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a joke. Hutchinson didn\u2019t witness anything. Everything she said about Trump\u2019s \u201cvery angry\u201d episode was the kind of pure hearsay that would never be admissible in a real trial, but that\u2019s not what this is. The Jan. 6 circus is nothing more than a Soviet-style show trial intended to destroy the lives of Democrats\u2019 political opponents and accrue more power for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the media\u2019s primary objective too. If it weren\u2019t, they\u2019d reserve the title \u201cstar witness\u201d for people who actually witnessed things.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Griswold is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religion, and the media. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The corrupt corporate media haven\u2019t been able to contain their excitement about the testimony from the 25-year-old former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whom they\u2019ve called the \u201cmissing piece\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":994,"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-1533304","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\/1533304","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\/994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533304\/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=1533304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}