Two weeks after the Jan. 6 Committee introduced a new series of blockbuster claims from surprise witness Cassidy Hutchinson, most of which have failed close scrutiny, panel members are expecting the press to take her testimony at face value.
California Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a 2019 House impeachment manager who now serves on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s latest anti-Trump probe in the Select Committee, went on CNN Sunday to conduct damage control as the Democrats’ desperate narrative ahead of the November midterms fell apart.
Lofgren was asked about the panel’s questioning of former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who spoke with the committee in April but was asked back after explosive allegations from Hutchinson were left uncorroborated. Hutchinson told lawmakers in public testimony that Cipollone pressured the low-level White House aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to keep the president from going to the Capitol on Jan. 6 or “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.”
“I saw Mr. Cipollone right before I walked out onto West Exec that morning, and Mr. Cipollone said something to the effect of ‘please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me,’” Hutchinson said.
Multiple sources told The Federalist, however, that Cipollone was not at the White House on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who is leading House Republicans’ investigation of the Capitol riot after Pelosi expelled him from his minority appointment as ranking member of the Select Committee, demanded White House visitation records to probe Hutchinson’s claims.
When pressed on whether the panel asked Cipollone to confirm Hutchinson’s testimony, Lofgren said the committee was uninterested, despite the episode serving as a focal point in Hutchinson’s narrative.
“We never call in witnesses to corroborate other witnesses or to give their reaction to other witnesses,” Lofgren admitted on national television to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
In other words, Lofgren conceded the committee’s proceedings are a Soviet-style partisan show trial operating for the sole purpose of smearing political dissidents, with no regard for the truth.
One day after Hutchinson appeared before lawmakers, Tapper pressed panel member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., who also served as a House impeachment manager last year, on how the committee would corroborate its newest star witness. Among her series of unsubstantiated claims, Hutchinson shared a story on how Trump attempted to violently hijack the presidential limousine and drive himself to the Capitol. The story, however, relied entirely on supposed conversations she had with others who refuted her testimony hours after she took the stand.
“She did not see it happen,” Tapper told Raskin. “Do you have any corroborating evidence?”
“Well, the story that she told is the evidence that I’m aware of,” Raskin said. “And I’ve not seen anything to contradict it.”
Except those who supposedly did see the episode in question said they were prepared to testify on-record and under oath that Hutchinson’s story of a president in rage assaulting Secret Service agents was a fable.
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Deplorable Me
1 year ago
So, I guess the big leftist headline would be, “Cipollene does not refute Hutchinson’s Explosive Testimony!!”.
“Well, the story that she told is the evidence that I’m aware of,” Raskin said. “And I’ve not seen anything to contradict it.”
“But, then again, I’m not at all interested in the truth or knowing the facts, so I haven’t really been looking in that direction.”
You have to be too stupid to remember to breath to believe this shit.
It’s worthless when there is no cross examination and no fear of prosecution for perjury as long as the kkk is told what they want to present. There SHOULD be indictments, just not the ones you dream of.
You said the same thing with Bob Mueller. You lost. Then it was some random prosecutor in NY. You lost. As they say you can indict a ham sandwich. Doesn’t mean it’s not a political charade.
Hearsay of a bombshell, you know that the congress has a purpose, a function, they are out of their lane. Like old poots driving down the road swerving dangerously, they are to legislate..look that word up. This freak show has zero legislative constitutional basis. Its very formation shattered the house rules to tiny bits. They have no power to indict anyone they are to make laws the SCOTUS to determine if laws ore constitutional, The Executive to enforce.
There was no insurrection nor attempt, there were crowd agitators, not arrested, one even got a hefty reward from your propaganda outlets, but no charges even when he recorded himself breaking a window.
This is the same old ginned up crap nothing burger with a side of lies, order up fool, it wont be that satisfaction you want no russians, no quid pro, no insurrection, no tax forms, no hookers jumping on the bed tape.
You know where there is a hookers tape? Hunter he is weighing out crack cocaine he bought from a hooker recorded the whole deal. Russians? How bout 3.5 million Hunter got from a Russian Widow, Quid Pro, well son of a bitch the prosecutor got fired. 900 K for the Pedo Pete for lobbying for Burisma. The conversation with uncle about a business partner that got himself murdered by the CCP after a very hefty “investment” into one of Hunters shell companies. Lots more and Pedo Pete up to his lying neck in all of it.
Hunter loved to text, he backed all of it up in the laptop.
Have you ever seen people so pathetically desperate? They are the biggest failures in the nation and can’t stand that someone like Trump succeeds AND defeats them at every turn. All they can do it lie and create their fascist totalitarian police state enclave to bounce their lies back and forth with each other. They try desperately to convince themselves they are righteous.
TrumpWon
1 year ago
Cara Castronuova: FBI Ignored Own Informant Saying Proud Boys Were ‘Peacefully Protesting’ On Jan. 6
Remember, the FBI long ago concluded that there was no conspiracy, no organization of a mob and no participation or influence by Trump. Perhaps this is what caused them to draw that conclusion.
So, I guess the big leftist headline would be, “Cipollene does not refute Hutchinson’s Explosive Testimony!!”.
“But, then again, I’m not at all interested in the truth or knowing the facts, so I haven’t really been looking in that direction.”
You have to be too stupid to remember to breath to believe this shit.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1546947143956676611?t=cayGJEOefPzQUm7qRCwNIA&s=19
Someone had already taken down the barricades at the Capital, which essentially invited the protesters in.
What do you think sworn witness testimony is? Maybe you don’t recognize bombshells when they explode?
Indictments are coming.
It’s worthless when there is no cross examination and no fear of prosecution for perjury as long as the kkk is told what they want to present. There SHOULD be indictments, just not the ones you dream of.
You said the same thing with Bob Mueller. You lost. Then it was some random prosecutor in NY. You lost. As they say you can indict a ham sandwich. Doesn’t mean it’s not a political charade.
Hearsay of a bombshell, you know that the congress has a purpose, a function, they are out of their lane. Like old poots driving down the road swerving dangerously, they are to legislate..look that word up. This freak show has zero legislative constitutional basis. Its very formation shattered the house rules to tiny bits. They have no power to indict anyone they are to make laws the SCOTUS to determine if laws ore constitutional, The Executive to enforce.
There was no insurrection nor attempt, there were crowd agitators, not arrested, one even got a hefty reward from your propaganda outlets, but no charges even when he recorded himself breaking a window.
This is the same old ginned up crap nothing burger with a side of lies, order up fool, it wont be that satisfaction you want no russians, no quid pro, no insurrection, no tax forms, no hookers jumping on the bed tape.
You know where there is a hookers tape? Hunter he is weighing out crack cocaine he bought from a hooker recorded the whole deal. Russians? How bout 3.5 million Hunter got from a Russian Widow, Quid Pro, well son of a bitch the prosecutor got fired. 900 K for the Pedo Pete for lobbying for Burisma. The conversation with uncle about a business partner that got himself murdered by the CCP after a very hefty “investment” into one of Hunters shell companies. Lots more and Pedo Pete up to his lying neck in all of it.
Hunter loved to text, he backed all of it up in the laptop.
Have you ever seen people so pathetically desperate? They are the biggest failures in the nation and can’t stand that someone like Trump succeeds AND defeats them at every turn. All they can do it lie and create their fascist totalitarian police state enclave to bounce their lies back and forth with each other. They try desperately to convince themselves they are righteous.
Cara Castronuova: FBI Ignored Own Informant Saying Proud Boys Were ‘Peacefully Protesting’ On Jan. 6
Remember, the FBI long ago concluded that there was no conspiracy, no organization of a mob and no participation or influence by Trump. Perhaps this is what caused them to draw that conclusion.
https://twitter.com/blackvaultcom/status/1547569402932912129?t=bASnnv3j2OTWPlClxRg2Vg&s=19