Grand Jury Probing January 6th Committee 'Star Witness' Cassidy Hutchinson

NYPost.com:

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into ex-Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress in testimony about the 45th president’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, The Post has learned. A federal grand jury was empaneled earlier this week to hear evidence and witness testimony about Hutchinson’s alleged false statements to lawmakers, sources familiar with the probe said. 

 

The investigation, under the auspices of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, was first reported by Punchbowl News, which also claimed Hutchinson has not yet received a subpoena to appear. It’s unclear what testimony is under scrutiny. Hutchinson, 29, served as a “star” witness for the House Select January 6th Committee that probed President Trump and his allies for actions leading up to the Capitol riot. 

 

That investigation later fed into special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump in 2023 and 2024 for making knowingly false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. Smith testified to a House panel last December that Hutchinson only provided “secondhand hearsay” and wouldn’t have been a reliable witness for his purposes. Hutchinson had previously testified in a made-for-TV hearing in June 2022 that Trump had screamed, “Take me up to the Capitol now!” and lunged at the wheel of his Secret Service-driven SUV, known as “the Beast,” on Jan. 6, 2021.

Hutchinson is the ex-Trump aide who rode the January 6th (esp. when it comes to Liz Checeny) coattails to left-wing fame by swearing under oath that Trump lunged at his limo driver that day. A fairy tale that would've been refuted by the limo driver had he been allowed to testify to the Democrat J6 committee. But he wasn't. And now some two years later Hutchinson may be in a little bit of a pickle for lying under oath about a note she said she wrote.

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The Running Mate Kamala Harris Didn’t Dare Choose...Because He's Gay

TheAtlantic.com:

As Kamala Harris rushed to pick a running mate last year, her “first choice” was her close friend Pete Buttigieg, but she decided that it would be “too big of a risk” for a Black woman to run with a gay man. 

 

Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man,” Harris writes in a passage of her soon-to-be-released book, 107 Days, that I saw. “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.” 

 

"And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.” 

 

Harris instead selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and the two went on to lose to Donald Trump. Her honest recounting of that decision—much more candid than I usually see in political memoirs—highlights one of the core challenges facing Democrats, especially as they try to refocus their message ahead of the next presidential election, in 2028. After years of highlighting and celebrating the historic characteristics of their nominees

Buttigieg, Walz, whoever, it doesn't matter who Kamala picked as her running mate because she still would've lost to Trump. Why? Because she is and was always an empty suit, she campaigned with the likes of Liz Cheney, she never cared about working-class voters, she overplayed January 6th, she avoided tons of interviews on the campaign trail like a plague because she can't speak clearly without a script or in a non-friendly atmospheres, she was a DEI hire for VP to begin with who covered for Joe Biden's lack of mental acuity, she was horrible on border control, she had no Black agenda and that laugh was hated by any and everyone.

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