*** January 6 Committee Hearing Livewire ***

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*** January 6 Committee Hearing Livewire *** Democrats Push All In on Capitol Riot Probe



MATTHEW BOYLE
9 Jun 2022Washington, DC10,243

16:22

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, get ready for the main event. Step right up, get your tickets for the greatest show on earth. Democrats have decided to bet their entire political future on a few hours of a primetime televised hearing for the January 6 Select Committee to present its findings, and Thursday night, starting at 8:00 p.m. ET the party makes its move toward that endgame for the first of several hearings.



It is notable first and foremost that Democrats have picked primetime television for the first hearing after a yearlong investigation, and expectations are extremely high for them to actually produce new or compelling evidence to push their case. Secondly, it also worth noting this committee is unprecedentedly partisan. Even though two members who claim to be Republicans–Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)–are members of the committee, they got their appointments from Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That came after Pelosi engaged in the never-before-seen step of removing two of the five Republicans that House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy had named to the panel–the other three stepped aside in protest at the action–so no matter what anyone in the establishment media or the political class says, this is nothing more than a partisan smear job.



The panel is chaired by Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS)–who just won his primary in Mississippi earlier this week–and features several top Democrat superstars like Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Elaine Luria (D-VA), and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL).



The use of taxpayer dollars–more than $8 million of them per estimates from House Administration Committee Republicans, as Breitbart News reported earlier on Thursday–for this committee will surely be questioned in the months and years to come depending on what the committee puts forward in this primetime event.



Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, this seems to be the last best hope Democrats in Congress have ahead of a brewing red tsunami in the upcoming November midterm elections. Even the New York Times admitted in a headline earlier this week that this hearing and future ones from the Committee offer Democrats a chance to “recast” their midterm message, which is currently mired in failure on literally every single issue. If they don’t deliver–and big time–on Thursday night, expect their last hopes of retaining a majority in either or both chambers of Congress after November’s midterm elections to fade significantly and quickly. That’s in large part why the actual House Republicans (not Cheney and Kinzinger, who really don’t count anymore) have planned a massive counter-offensive in the messaging wars. These actual House Republicans have been successful at this in the past–as evidenced by both of former President Donald Trump’s impeachments–and any shortcoming from the Democrat panel on Thursday night is surely going to backfire significantly on the party promoting this expensive taxpayer-funded production.

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19 Million Watched January 6 Hearing, Preliminary Figures Show


DAVID NG10 Jun 2022

The Democrats’ effort to saturate the airwaves with its primetime January 6 show trial on Thursday yielded 19 million viewers across five networks — a preliminary figure that fell short of similar blanket-coverage political events, like this year’s State of the Union address, which drew 38 million viewers.



The figure beat the daytime broadcast of Robert Mueller’s Russia-collusion-hoax hearing by about 6 million viewers.



With almost non-stop hype leading up to Thursday’s primetime broadcasts, Democrats were hoping to bombard Americans with flashbacks to the January 6 Capitol Hill riot in an effort to distract them from the many failures of the Democrat-controlled White House and Congress.



But the vast majority of Americans clearly had better things to do with their time than sit through a two-hour partisan lecture.



Preliminary Nielsen figures obtained by the New York Times showed that ABC drew the biggest audience with 4.8 million viewers, with NBC and CBS each attracting more than three million. Among the cable news networks, MSNBC drew an average audience of 4.2 million, while CNN drew 2.6 million.


Fox News didn’t air the hearings in primetime and instead went with its usual lineup, which includes Tucker Carlson Tonight. During his show, Carlson blasted the Democrats’ hearing as pure propaganda.



The total of 19 million viewers is unimpressive when compared to other political events that receive blanket media coverage, like the State of the Union address and presidential debates.



Earlier this year, President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech attracted 38.2 million viewers. The first debate between then-President Donald Trump and Biden in 2020 drew more than 73 million viewers.


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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Liars EDITED OUT FOOTAGE Last Night of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland’s Death from FROM KEY WITNESS TESTIMONY! See LEAKED VIDEO HERE!!

By Cara Castronuova

Published June 10, 2022 at 11:00am


Treacherous treasonous criminals!! The UNSELECT January 6th Committee disgraced themselves and the nation on Primetime TV last night. They brought British filmmaker Nick Quested onto the stand as one of their key witnesses and presented his footage to the public EDITED in the most manipulated fashion possible to leave out the most compelling content he shot that day- THE BODIES OF UNITED STATES VETERAN ASHLI BABBITT AND ROSANNE BOYLAND!!



Do they think Americans are stupid!?!!!



A more complete version of Quested’s footage was released by a source to the public this morning. It contains never-before-seen footage of Rosanne Boyland and Ashli’s Babbitt’s bodies. Here it is:




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“The harder the January 6th Committee pushes their phony narrative, the more their deceit will reveal itself,” said Tina Ryan of Citizens Against Political Persecution.



TRENDING: BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Liars EDITED OUT FOOTAGE Last Night of Ashli Babbitt and Rosanne Boyland's Death from FROM KEY WITNESS TESTIMONY! See LEAKED VIDEO HERE!!

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It Was Always About Trump: Fresh Off Disastrous ‘Show Trial,’ Sham J6 Panel Announces It Has “Uncovered Enough Evidence” to Indict President Trump

By Julian Conradson

Published June 12, 2022 at 7:45pm



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unconstitutional January 6th commission announced on Sunday that it is turning its sights on the big bad orange man after reportedly “uncovering enough evidence” to indict President Trump for daring to challenge the legitimacy of the ‘most secure election in history.’



Judging by their highly-produced, bogus show trial that aired this week – complete with scripted lines and selectively edited video for maximum dramatic effect – its hard to discern what, if any, new information has been “uncovered” by the committee, but they are insisting they’ve got him this time.



Naturally, pencilneck dirtbag Adam Schiff (D-CA) could barely contain himself when discussing the committee’s plans for Trump.



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From Schiff, via The AP:



“I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump. There are certain actions, parts of these different lines of effort to overturn the election that I don’t see evidence the Justice Department is investigating.”



According to The AP, Pelosi’s hack committee is “considering” issuing President Trump an unprecedented criminal indictment for “seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.” An announcement on their decision is expected soon and should come following the release of more evidence this week when the show trials continue with more witnesses.



Some of the witnesses who are scheduled to testify include Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and former Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt.



From The AP:



Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election…



…Additional evidence is set to be released in hearings this week that will demonstrate how Trump and some of his advisers engaged in a “massive effort” to spread misinformation, pressured the Justice Department to embrace his false claims, and urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject state electors and block the vote certification on Jan. 6, 2021.



The J6 commission’s announcement comes just two days after former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, who has been subpoenaed and harassed by law enforcement by the committee himself, absolutely nuked Thursday’s primetime political theater performance and dared the committee to follow up their bogus virtue signaling with an indictment of President Trump.



From Bannon:



“I dare Merrick Garland to take that crap there last night and try to indict Donald J. Trump. We dare you. Because we want to impeach. We’re going to win in November and we’re going to impeach you and everybody around you! Screw Merrick Garland!”



With the bogus witch hunt committee stepping up to the plate on Bannon’s challenge, I guess they are figuring that ‘the third time’s the charm,’ but, as is the case with all of their other ‘bombshell discoveries,’ this will serve as little more than a slab of red meat to the left’s dying ‘insurrection’ base.



This dog and pony show has gone on for long enough. Pelosi and her band of anti-American swamp creatures are the ones who need to be indicted.


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Jim Jordan: January 6 Committee ‘Has Altered Evidence and Lied to the American People About It’




JEFF POOR
12 Jun 2022

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) criticized House Select January 6 Committee Democrats for their “choreographed” presentation earlier in the week.



The Ohio Republican lawmaker also reminded viewers of altered evidence, apparently referring to an altered text message exchange between Jordan and Mark Meadows.



“I want to see all the depositions,” he said. “I want to see all the documents. And ranking member Rodney Davis has already sent a preservation letter to the committee, saying, preserve all this information, so we can look at it, and the American people can get the full story, not just this one-sided, choreographed presentation we got — excuse me — we got the other night. But when you think about what this committee has done, never in the history of this country, in the history of the House of Representatives, has a minority leader not been able to put on a select committee that individuals he or she has selected.”



“We also know that this committee has altered evidence and lied to the American people about it, so much so that they had to issue a statement which says, we regret the error, which is government-speak for, we got caught lying,” Jordan continued. “So that’s what this committee is about. I think the country sees it for what it is, a partisan political activity. That’s why the leader and I wrote the op-ed that we did in The Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago.”

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Liz Cheney Uses January 6 Committee for Political Retaliation, Subpoenas Primary Opponent’s Campaign Adviser

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PAUL BOIS12 Jun 2022

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appears to have used the January 6 committee as a political weapon against her primary opponent.



It is no secret that Liz Cheney’s political career as an establishment Republican took a nosedive into oblivion when she sided with the Democrats in their January 6 witch hunt. Since then, her primary opponent, Harriet Hageman, has been trouncing Cheney in the polls and now leads by a whopping 30 points. After a dismal first hearing for the January 6 committee that pulled in just 19 million viewers across the United States, Liz Cheney has now subpoenaed former Donald Trump campaign manager William Stepien, who also just so happens to be Hageman’s campaign adviser.

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Liz Cheney Throws a Tantrum After January 6 Panel Chairman Bennie Thompson Rules out Trump Criminal Referral

By Cristina Laila

Published June 13, 2022 at 9:31pm

Monday marked day two of Liz Cheney’s Maoist January 6 show trial.



January 6 panel Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) on Monday evening said the committee will not be making criminal referrals to the Justice Department.



“If the Department of Justice looks at it and assumes that there’s something that needs further review. I’m sure they’ll do it,” Thompson said to reporters.



When asked again if the January 6 committee would ever make a criminal referral “No, that’s not our job. Our job is to look at the facts and circumstances around January 6, what caused it and make recommendations after that.”


“They’re the prosecutors, not the legislative branch,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren said to reporters, backing up Bennie Thompson’s statement.



WATCH:

Liz Cheney threw a tantrum after Rep. Thompson confirmed his committee would never criminally refer President Trump to the Justice Department.



Cheney immediately released a statement contradicting Bennie Thompson.

The January 6 Committee spox followed up with a statement clarifying Bennie Thompson’s criminal referral claims.

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"Our Country Is In A Nosedive" - Trump Issues 12-Page Rebuttal Of "Sham" Jan6 Committee Investigation


MONDAY, JUN 13, 2022 - 09:20 PM


As Nancy Pelosi's Jan 6 Hearings complete their second day of the 'show trial', former President Trump has issued a 12-page rebuttal to the testimony and 'evidence' presented to the American public (well a few of them anyway given the ratings fail).



“Seventeen months after the events of January 6th, Democrats are unable to offer solutions,” Trump said in a statement released through his Save America PAC.



“They are desperate to change the narrative of a failing nation, without even making mention of the havoc and death caused by the Radical Left just months earlier. Make no mistake, they control the government. They own this disaster. They are hoping that these hearings will somehow alter their failing prospects.”







Trump begins his rebuttal by taking on the Democrats directly:



"Our nation is SUFFERING. Our economy is in the gutter. Inflation is rampant. Gas prices have reached an all-time high. Ships are unable to unload cargo. Families cannot get needed baby formula. We are an embarrassment around the world."



A certain Democrat once said, “It's the economy, stupid.”



Well, Trump states: "Democrats now seem to think that Americans are 'stupid'. They are not. "



“As we near the midterm elections, we’re watching the Swamp creatures circle the drain as true Americans step up to replace the corrupt Establishment with patriots who will fight for our freedoms,” Trump says in Monday’s 12-page statement.



"People are desperate," he adds, confirming the record low UMich sentiment readings last week and record low approval rating for President Biden.



"Rather than solving problems, Democrats are rehashing history in hopes of changing the narrative," Trump explains.



Trump goes on to say that The January 6th 'Unselect' Committee is "disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution."



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Read former President Trump's full rebuttal below:  At link

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Show Trial Mistrial: January 6 Chair Says No Criminal Referral of Trump, After All; Liz Cheney Disagrees

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JOEL B. POLLAK13 Jun 2022
3:08

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the January 6 Committee, said Monday evening there would be no criminal referrals of former President Donald Trump or anyone else to the Department of Justice (DOJ) — and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) promptly disagreed in public.

Cheney, one of two anti-Trump Republicans hand-picked by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to serve on the committee, fired back:

The committee has voted to recommend that several former Trump aides be held in contempt of Congress, and the full U.S. House has voted for several contempt referrals, two of which have led to prosecutions, contrary to DOJ’s custom of declining such referrals.



Democrats and many in the establishment media have been pressing the committee to provide a basis for the DOJ to charge Trump as well. The absence of a criminal referral does not mean the DOJ will not prosecute Trump or his aides: the DOJ is reportedly using transcripts from the committee’s behind-closed-doors depositions in criminal investigations.



Regardless, the feud between Thompson and Cheney means there are finally opposing voices represented on the committee.



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TRAINWRECK: Sham Jan. 6 Committee Postpones Wednesday Show Trial — Need More Time to Put Together Video Because 17 Months Not Enough Time

By Jim Hoft

Published June 14, 2022 at 10:10am




The sham January 6 Committee postponed their Wednesday hearing.



They need more time to put together video for the show trial.



Evidently, 17 months of planning was not enough.



Our government is a bad joke.


These Marxists couldn’t work their way out of a paper bag.



Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) made the announcement on Tuesday morning after Monday’s sideshow.

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Capitol Police Chief Debunks J6 Committee Conspiracy Theory

BY TYLER DURDEN


TUESDAY, JUN 14, 2022 - 11:45 AM

As the Democrat-run January 6th Committee goes to great lengths to present their unifying theory of insurrection surrounding that fateful day in 2001, Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger has debunked a Democrat allegation that a GOP lawmaker, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), ran a reconnaissance mission inside the Capitol one day before the riot.


"There is no evidence that Representative Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol with this group on January 5, 2021," Manger wrote in a Monday letter to Rep. Rodbey Davis (R-IL), ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, after reviewing security footage of Loudermilk giving people a tour of congressional office buildings.



"We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious," the letter continues (via Just the News).



J6 Committee Democrat Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and RINO Liz Cheney (R-WY) made allegations against Loudermilk in a letter to the media last month, demanding to know why Loudermilk explain why he was giving a tour of the Capitol the day before the riots - implying that he may have been doing reconnaissance for the next day's riot.





Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

"Based on our review of evidence in the Select Committee’s possession, we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021," Cheney and Thompson wrote. "The foregoing information raises questions to which the Select Committee must seek answers. Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021."



Cheney and Thompson pointed to an earlier letter from Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill that alleged some GOP lawmakers gave Capitol tours on Jan. 5, 2021 that involved "suspicious behavior and access," which may have given Trump supporters who entered the building "an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex."



And now that's been debunked, leaving Republican lawmakers fuming.



"All I can think of is this is a Soviet-style propaganda trial, like a show trial," Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., who spent time working in Communist Yugoslavia earlier in her career, told Just the News. "They put this tape together using propaganda, selected words and clauses cut and pasted to smear the people they want to smear and to get the outcome."



Rep, Rodney Davis, the Illinois Republican who pressed Capitol Police to review the evidence and clear Loudermilk, said Democrats who besmirched his colleague's name need to face accountability before the House Ethics Committee.



"The Democrats need to be ashamed of themselves," Davis told the "Just the News, Not Noise" television show Monday night.



Former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, who played a role unraveling the Russia collusion narrative, said Democrats have reached the political limits of the proverbial boy-cry-wolf tale, and it is time for their enablers in the mainstream media to push back. Some of the biggest names in media reported the Loudermilk allegations when they surfaced last month. -JTN



"I'm wondering how many of these political writers — The New York Times Washington Post, all these folks — are actually lining up to give the retractions," Collins told Just the News. "...Let's just be honest. They buy any narrative they can to impugn conservative congressmen, to malign Donald Trump, to make this event that they're trying to pin basically on the conservative movement. And they're willing to destroy lives, you know, really to do it without actually investigating, without reporting."



Per Manger's letter: "At no time did the group appear in any tunnels that would have led them to the U.S. Capitol," adding "In addition, the tunnels leading to the U.S. Capitol were posted with USCP officers and admittance to the U.S. Capitol without a Member of Congress was not permitted on January 5, 2021."


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"Schiff for brains..."    


Schiff: We Have Enough Evidence Showing Trump ‘Engaged in Likely Multiple Criminal Acts’

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PAM KEY
14 Jun 2022

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” that he believed the House Select Committee investigating the riot at the U.S. Capitol has enough evidence showing former President Donald Trump “engaged in likely multiple criminal acts.”



Schiff said, “Our mission is to expose the facts to the public light about a plot to overturn a presidential election, the first non-peaceful transfer of power we’ve had in our history, and prescribe remedies, legislative remedies to protect our country going forward. The principal mission of the Justice Department is to bring people to justice who break the law. We can make a referral, but of course, the Justice Department doesn’t sit around waiting for referrals from us, at least, they haven’t in the past. I hope they’re not simply waiting for us now. It’s their duty to follow the evidence and, if there are credible allegations of crime, to pursue them against anyone, including former presidents.”



Lemon said, “If they shouldn’t be waiting, do you find at least in what you know enough credible evidence for the Justice Department to act at this moment?”



Schiff said, “I certainly believe there’s enough evidence for them to open an investigation of several people, and so did Judge David Carter of California believes the former president and others were engaged in likely multiple criminal acts. So if the Justice Department concurs with Judge Carter, let alone my own view or others, they should be pursuing that. So, yes, I think there is sufficient evidence to open an investigation. It would be of you up to the Justice Department ultimately to decide does that evidence rise to proof beyond a reasonable doubt such that they’re comfortable indicting someone. But there’s certainly, in my view, enough evidence to open up investigations.”

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Schiff: ‘Certainly a Possibility’ Pence Will Be Subpoenaed for January 6 Probe

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PAM KEY
19 Jun 2022

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it was “certainly a possibility” the January 6 House Select Committee could subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence.



Anchor Dana Bash said, “We’ve seen a lot of taped testimony from the hundreds, even more of closed-door testimony that you’ve done as a committee. But why aren’t you calling witnesses in a public way who might challenge the committee? Is that intentional because you don’t want to deviate from the storyline that you’re trying to present to the public and, of course, potentially to the Justice Department?”



Schiff said, “No. I mean, we are interviewing, frankly, anyone that has relevant evidence. We’re putting that relevant evidence before the public, and we’re doing it in a way that is the most cohesive and that we can get across the salient points to the public.”



Bash said, “Why not subpoena Mike Pence, for example? I know you asked him to testify voluntarily. That didn’t happen.”



Schiff said, “We’re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. We would still, I think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. but at the moment, I can’t disclose what private conversations may or may not be going on with respect to certain individuals, but there are still key people we have not interviewed we would like to.”



Bash asked, “So, Mike Pence is a possibility still?”



Schiff said, “You know, certainly a possibility,” he replied. “We’re not excluding anyone or anything at this point.”

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Jan 6th Panel Not Swaying Swing-State Republicans – “Pushed Them In The Opposite Direction”

By ProTrumpNews Staff

Published June 19, 2022 at 2:20pm




The Jan 6th panel is backfiring on Democrats and RINOs.



NBC News traveled to Nevada to discuss the Jan 6th panel and their hearings with Republican voters.



What they found was that not only was the panel not changing voters’ minds — but it was pushing them even more towards Trump.


NBC News reported:



Instead, it was “Washington politicians” and “the media establishment,” several voters interviewed said, who they saw as trying to stack the deck against the former president.



“It might as well be impeachment No. 3 for Donald Trump,” said Judy Cameron, a Reno retiree who had just voted in Nevada’s Republican primaries on Tuesday with her husband. “This is their big push to get Donald Trump off the ballot.”



NBC News talked to more than two dozen voters in both Washoe and Clark counties — the two most populous in Nevada — and found that the Jan. 6 committee hearings that captivated Washington not only failed to persuade these voters but pushed them in the opposite direction.



As Americans turn towards Trump, they continue to disapprove of Joe Biden.



Joe Biden’s approval has fallen below Donald Trump’s at the same time.



The Independent reported:



President Joe Biden’s approval ratings hit a new low on Monday and touched 39.7 per cent, worse than his predecessor Donald Trump’s ratings at this point in 2018, according to a new poll.



The poll conducted by fivethirytyeight has found that after 510 days in office, the president faces a disproval rating of 53.7 per cent.



The RINOs are losing!

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January 6th Committee Spox and Cassidy Hutchinson’s Lawyer Stand by Her Testimony on Trump and Secret Service Driver

By Kristinn Taylor

Published June 28, 2022 at 8:57pm


A spokesman for the House January 6th Committee defended Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony Tuesday after reported denials by all involved with her accusation that President Trump swore and angrily tried to grab the steering wheel and attempted to throttle his Secret Service driver when he was allegedly told he would not be driven to the Capitol on January 6, 2021 after his speech to supporters at the Ellipse near the Washington Monument. Hutchinson’s lawyer also posted a statement defending his client.


Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of I’m the f’ing president, take me up to the Capitol now, to which Bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the West Wing. The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.



We’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol. Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. And Mr. — when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.



CNN reporter Gabby Orr, “A committee spox tells @cnn: “The Committee trusts the credibility of a witness who was willing to testify under oath & in public but is also willing to hear any information that others may have that would aid in their investigation.”


Orr previously reported, “Tony Ornato is denying that he told Cassidy Hutchinson Trump grabbed the steering wheel in presidential vehicle on 1/6 or lunged at a fellow agent, a USSS official tells @joshscampbell. CNN confirms that Ornato & Enger (sic) are prepared to testify that neither incident occurred.”

Anthony Ornato is a Secret Service assistant director who was temporarily detailed to the White House in 2019 to serve as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations by appointment of President Trump. Robert Engel was the head of Trump’s Secret Service detail.



News of the denial of the attack was first broken by NBC’s Peter Alexander, “A 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.”

Earlier the Secret Service issued a statement to reporters the agency had been cooperating with the committee, “A Secret Service spokesman says the agency has been cooperating with the Jan 6 committee, “and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony.””

Hutchinson’s attorney Jody Hunt gave a rather lawyerly defense of his client, “Ms. Hutchinson testified, under oath, and recounted what she was told. Those with knowledge of the episode also should testify under oath.”

President Trump issued a denial on Truth Social earlier Tuesday, “Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order to steer it to the Capitol Building is “sick” and fraudulent, very much like the Unselect Committee itself – Wouldn’t even have been possible to do such a ridiculous thing. Her story of me throwing food is also false…and why would SHE have to clean it up, I hardly knew who she was?”





Transcript of Hutchinson making the accusations under questioing by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) (via NPR):



LIZ CHENEY: As we’ve all just heard, in the days leading up to January 6th, on the day of the speech, both before and during and after the rally speech, President Trump was pushing his staff to arrange for him to come up here to the Capitol during the electoral vote count. Let’s turn now to what happened in the president’s vehicle when the Secret Service told him he would not be going to the Capitol after his speech. First, here is the president’s motorcade leaving the Ellipse after his speech on January 6th. Ms. Hutchinson, when you returned to the White House in the motorcade after the president’s speech, where did you go?



CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: When I returned to the White House, I walked upstairs towards the chief of staff’s office, and I noticed Mr. Ornato lingering outside of the office. Once we had made eye contact, he quickly waved me to go into his office, which was just across the hall from mine. When I went in, he shut the door, and I noticed Bobby Engel, who was the head of Mr. Trump’s security detail, sitting in a chair, just looking somewhat discombobulated and a little lost.



I looked at Tony and he had said, did you f’ing hear what happened in the beast? I said, no, Tony, I — I just got back. What happened? Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the beast, he was under the impression from Mr. Meadows that the off the record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen, but that Bobby had more information.



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So, once the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought that they were going up to the Capitol. And when Bobby had relayed to him we’re not, we don’t have the assets to do it, it’s not secure, we’re going back to the West Wing, the president had a very strong, a very angry response to that.



Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of I’m the f’ing president, take me up to the Capitol now, to which Bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the West Wing. The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.



We’re going back to the West Wing. We’re not going to the Capitol. Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel. And Mr. — when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles.



LIZ CHENEY: And was Mr. Engel in the room as Mr. Ornato told you this story?


CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: He was.



LIZ CHENEY: Did Mr. Engel correct or disagree with any part of this story from Mr. Ornato?



CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: Mr. Engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story.



LIZ CHENEY: Did Mr. Engel or Mr. Ornato ever after that tell you that what Mr. Ornato had just said was untrue?


CASSIDY HUTCHINSON: Neither Mr. Ornato nor Mr. Engel told me ever that it was untrue.

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DEBUNKED! Jan. 6 Committee “Surprise” Witness GETS CAUGHT – US Secret Service Sources DENY Trump Tried to Grab Steering Wheel — ARE WILLING TO TESTIFY!

By Jim Hoft

Published June 28, 2022 at 5:49pm


On Tuesday, Liz Cheney and the sham Jan. 6 committee brought in Mark Meadows staffer Cassidy Hutchinson as a “surprise witness.”



Young Cassidy testified 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.



Hutchinson said Trump got into “the beast” after his speech at the Ellipse on January 6 with the belief that he would be driven to the Capitol.



According to Hutchinson, who received this information from Tony Ornato, the Assistant Director for the Secret Service, Trump grew angry after he was informed that he was being driven back to the West Wing.


The fake news media ran with Cassidy’s explosive testimony.

Hutchinson said Trump traveled in “The Beast” over to the Ellipse that day.



But Trump was in the Presidential SUV not “The Beast.”







NOW THIS—



The Secret Service denied the report and the agents are ready and willing to testify.



NBC News White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted–

Miss Hutchinson LIED UNDER OATH!



More…

The Secret Service released a statement.

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Fmr. Senate Sgt-At-Arms Michael Stenger Dies Ahead Of Last-Minute J6 Hearing

=BY TYLER DURDEN

TUESDAY, JUN 28, 2022 - 01:01 PM

Michael Stenger, the former US Senate sergeant-at-arms in charge of security during the January 6, 2021 US Capitol breach, died on Monday at the age of 71. The cause and circumstances of his death were not immediately clear.


A resident of Falls Church, VA, Stenger resigned the day after the J6 riot at the request of then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had originally hired Stenger for the post in 2018.



Stenger was responsible for security in the Capitol and all Senate buildings, and serves as the Senate doorkeeper.



In remarks (pdf) before a congressional hearing on Feb. 23, 2021, Stenger called the events of Jan. 6 “a violent, coordinated attack where the loss of life could have been much worse.” He called for an investigation of “professional agitators” at the January 6 protests.



“There is an opportunity to learn lessons from the events of January 6th,” he testified. “Investigations should be considered as to funding and travel of what appears to be professional agitators.” -Epoch Times



Stenger's death was reported by Fox News' Chad Pergram on Monday, and tweeted by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who said that he was "found dead today."

According to former US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, Stenger and former House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving pushed back on an initial request to deploy the National Guard after it became obvious that large crowds were amassing on Jan. 6.



Stenger's death came one day before a J6 panel hearing that was abruptly added to the schedule, in which an aide to former White House Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows will testify to present "recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."



Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as a special assistant in the White House during the Trump administration, will take the stand to provide intel on last year’s Capitol insurrection and the administration’s response.



The House panel has yet to explain the newly added 1 p.m. hearing after Washington lawmakers were away on a two-week recess. The committee said last week no more hearings would be held until July. -NY Post



Stenger said that the J6 riot went "well beyond disobedience."

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Ginni Thomas Demands Context From J6 Panel Before She’ll Cooperate With The Hostile Probe

BY: TRISTAN JUSTICE

JUNE 28, 2022


Examination of the committee’s request to speak with Ginni Thomas has given the prominent conservative activist pause.


Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a prominent conservative activist who is also married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is demanding that the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 elaborate on its basis for soliciting testimony over privately petitioning her own government.



Hours after the Jan. 6 Committee wrapped up its sixth hearing on Tuesday, Ginni’s attorney, Mark Paoletta, sent a letter to the panel’s leadership requesting specifics on why the probe with an open animosity for the Thomas family seeks to publicly drag his client before lawmakers.



“Mrs. Thomas is eager to clear her name and is willing to appear before the Committee to do so,” Paoletta wrote to Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice-Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. “However, based on my understanding of the communications that spurred the Committee’s request, I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas.”



In March, Ginni became the center of a fabricated controversy related to the Jan. 6 Committee’s investigation when the panel leaked a series of private text messages with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The messages, 29 in all, revealed a conservative activist pleading with a government official to continue investigating allegations of election fraud in the pandemic-era contest, which included record-level turnout in the form of mail-in voting that was ripe for misconduct.



Committee members escalated their efforts to compel Ginni’s testimony earlier this month after more private communications were revealed with individuals involved in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to halt certification of the 2020 election. Thompson told Axios his colleagues on the panel “think it’s time that we, at some point, invite her [Thomas] to come talk to the committee.”



Ginni said shortly after she looked “forward to talking to them.”



“I can’t wait to clear up misconceptions,” she told the Daily Caller.



Further examination of the committee’s request, however, has given Ginni pause.



The panel’s request focuses on Ginni’s communications with attorney and law professor John Eastman, who produced legal theories to justify delays in certification of the electoral college. The extent of the pair’s contact, however, as outlined by Paoletta, stretches to generic emails forwarded by Ginni on a large distribution list and an invitation to speak to a group of conservative activists, a type of event Ginni organizes regularly.



“Not a single document shows any coordination between Mrs. Thomas and Mr. Eastman,” Paoletta wrote.



Paoletta also outlined skepticism that the committee was operating in good faith in its desire to bring Ginni before lawmakers, considering her husband is among the most targeted members of the Supreme Court.



In 2014, Thompson stood by his comments calling Justice Thomas “Uncle Tom” in a speech with the New Nation of Islam, which believes “intermarriage or race mixing should be prohibited.”



Thomas “doesn’t like black people, [and] he doesn’t like being black,” the congressman said.



“These statements by the Committee’s chairman certainly raise alarm bells when the committee says that it wants to speak with Mrs. Thomas,” Paoletta wrote.

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January 6th Committee Subpoenas Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone

By Kristinn Taylor

Published June 29, 2022 at 7:55pm


The House January 6th Committee issued a subpoena to former Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone on Wednesday.


The move came after committee Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) called for Cipollone’s testimony, citing the discredited testimony of former Trump White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson, “As we heard yesterday, WH counsel Pat Cippollone (sic) had significant concerns re. Trump’s Jan 6 activities. It’s time for Mr. Cippollone (sic) to testify on the record. Any concerns he has about the institutional interests of his prior office are outweighed by the need for his testimony.”
Wednesday evening the committee subpoenaed Cipollone, “The Select Committee has subpoenaed former White House Counsel Pasquale “Pat” Cipollone for deposition testimony as a part of the committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.”


Press release:



Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) today announced that the Select Committee has subpoenaed former White House Counsel Pasquale “Pat” Cipollone for deposition testimony as a part of the committee’s investigation into the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Chairman and Vice Chair released the following statement:



“The Select Committee’s investigation has revealed evidence that Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6th and in the days that preceded. While the Select Committee appreciates Mr. Cipollone’s earlier informal engagement with our investigation, the committee needs to hear from him on the record, as other former White House counsels have done in other congressional investigations. Any concerns Mr. Cipollone has about the institutional prerogatives of the office he previously held are clearly outweighed by the need for his testimony.”



The letter to Mr. Cipollone can be found here.



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Report: Lead Secret Service Agent Will Testify Trump Did Not Try to Commandeer Car on January 6


PAUL BOIS
28 Jun 2022

**This is a developing story. Scroll down for updates.**



The lead Secret Service agent in charge of President Trump’s detail on January 6 will reportedly testify that the former president did not try to commandeer his suburban during the riots, thereby contradicting testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday.



News of the testimony broke on Twitter from Peter Alexander of NBC News, the furthest thing from a Trump ally, who said that a source close to the Secret Service said that agent Bobby Engel will testify.



“A 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,” he tweeted.

ABC News confirmed as well:

Should the report prove accurate and Bobby Engel’s testimony hold up, it will be a huge blow to the January 6 committee, whose Tuesday star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, testified that former President Trump literally tried to commandeer the presidential suburban during the January 6 riot and became borderline violent when Bobby Engel tried to stop him. Hutchinson said she learned of the story from Tony Ornato, the White House deputy chief of staff.



“I noticed the head of Mr. Trump’s security detail sitting in a chair, looking somewhat discombobulated, a little lost,” Hutchinson testified. “I looked at Tony, he said, ‘Did you effing hear what happened in the Beast?’ I said, ‘No, Tony, I just got back, what happened?’ Hutchinson continued:



Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the Beast, he was under the impression from Mr. Meadows that the off-the-record movement to the Capitol was still possible and likely to happen but that Bobby had more information. As the president had gotten into the vehicle with Bobby, he thought that they were going up to the Capitol. And when Bobby had relayed to him that we’re not; we don’t have the assets to do it; it’s not secure; we’re going back to the West Wing, the president had a very strong, very angry response to that.



Hutchinson further testified that Trump “said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now.'”



When Bobby Engel allegedly told Trump that they would be going back to the West Wing, Hutchinson said the former president became borderline violent. Hutchinson said:



The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, ‘Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we’re going back to the West Wing, we’re not going to the Capitol.’ Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel.

News of Bobby Engel’s testimony will come after January 6 Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said on CNN that Hutchinson’s statements were essentially a smoking gun:





UPDATE: Shortly after the publication of this article, Nicole Sganga of CBS News reported that both Bobby Engel and former President Trump’s driver would contradict Hutchinson’s testimony:

CNN correspondent Shimon Prokupecz also reported that a Secret Service official familiar with the matter said that Tony Ornato denies telling Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump lunged for the steering wheel. Also, per Prokupecz, the Secret Service issued the following statement:



The United States Secret Service has been cooperating with the Select Committee since its inception in spring 2021, and will continue to do so, including by responding on the record to the Committee regarding the new allegations surfaced in today’s testimony.



CNN’s Gabby Orr is also reporting on Ornato’s denial of Hutchinson’s testimony; however, the January 6 Committee spokesperson has told CNN: “The Committee trusts the credibility of a witness who was willing to testify under oath & in public but is also willing to hear any information that others may have that would aid in their investigation.”

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The Jan 6th Clown Show Continues With New Outlandish Testimony

Millennial Millie

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Trump Rails Against Cassidy Hutchinson Testimony — ‘The Woman Is Living in Fantasy Land’


TRENT BAKER
30 Jun 2022

During an interview that aired Thursday on Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America,” former President Donald Trump slammed former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.



Trump called Hutchinson’s account “absolutely crazy” and said she was “living in fantasy land.”



“I thought it was absolutely crazy,” Trump told Newsmax TV “Wake Up America” host Rob Finnerty. “This committee is, a lot of people say, illegally formed. But when you look at what they’re doing, and you look at what they’re saying, and what they’re doing to the country, the good news is, a lot of people aren’t watching, a lot of people aren’t listening to it, but they’re trying to do real harm.”



“This lady yesterday, is something wrong with her? Is there something wrong? She said I jumped from a car, and I started … strangling a Secret Service agent who I know very well? I grabbed the steering wheel of a car? [She] said I wanted guns at my rally? I didn’t want guns. I have to speak, too., and I don’t want guns for anybody.”

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Trump pointed to the Secret Service refuting Hutchinson’s testimony about him attacking Bobby Engel and attempting to commandeer the presidential limousine.



“The woman is living in fantasy land,” he emphasized. “She’s a social climber — if you call that social. I think it’s just a shame that this is happening to this country, and we don’t have any Republicans up there to dispute it. We have one who quit, Kinzinger; we have another one who’s down by 35 points in Wyoming. She’s a total disaster. She’s a train wreck. But think of it — nobody to cross-examine.”



“I think [Hutchinson has] got serious problems, let me put it that way,” Trump added. “Mental problems.”

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Kinzinger: New Witnesses Coming Forward Following Hutchinson’s Testimony


PAM KEY
3 Jul 2022

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that new witnesses are coming forward after the testimony from Mark Meadows’ former aide Cassidy Hutchinson to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot.



Kinzinger said, “Cassidy Hutchinson has testified under oath. We find her credible. Anybody that wants to cast disparages on that should also come and testify under oath, not through anonymous sources.”



Anchor Dana Bash asked, “Congressman, since Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, have new witnesses come forward to want to speak up?”



Kinzinger said, “Yes. Again, I don’t want to get into who or any of those details, but – and it’s not even just Cassidy. By the way, she’s been inspiring for a lot of people. This happens every day. Every day we get new people that come forward and say, hey, I didn’t think maybe this piece of a story I knew was important, but now that you guys are – I do see this plays in here. But, yeah, I mean, look, she is going to go down in history as – mean, people can forget the names of every one of us on the committee. They will not forget her name. She doesn’t want that. She doesn’t want to be out in the public spotlight, but she has a commitment to truth.”


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STUNNING: Adam Kinzinger Says Secret Service Agent Who Was in Car with Trump When President Was Accused of Grabbing Steering Wheel “Likes to Lie”

By Jim Hoft

Published July 3, 2022 at 10:45am




On Tuesday, Liz Cheney and the sham Jan. 6 committee brought in Mark Meadows lower level staffer Cassidy Hutchinson as a “surprise witness.”



Young Cassidy testified that “she was told” that when then-President Donald Trump was being driven back to the White House after the Jan. 6 speech at the Ellipse that he demanded to be taken to the Capitol and tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent.



Hutchinson said Trump got into “the beast” after his speech at the Ellipse on January 6 with the belief that he would be driven to the Capitol.



According to Hutchinson, who reportedly received this information from Tony Ornato, the Assistant Director for the Secret Service, Trump grew angry after he was informed that he was being driven back to the West Wing.


The fake news media ran with Cassidy’s explosive testimony.

Hutchinson said Trump traveled in “The Beast” over to the Ellipse that day.



But Trump was in the Presidential SUV not “The Beast.”







The Secret Service later denied the report and the agents involved announced they were ready and willing to testify.



NBC News White House Correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted–

This destroyed the Democrat’s big show trial spectacle.



Miss Hutchinson LIED UNDER OATH!



In fact, The Gateway Pundit has caught Cassidy Hutchinson in at least NINE major lies during her testimony.



The Secret Service went a step further after Hutchinson’s testimony and released a statement.

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Another 'Cassidy Blasey Ford' Claim Appears Headed to the January 6 Committee Dumpster

BY VICTORIA TAFT JUL 02, 2022 9:47 PM ET




The January 6 Committee appears to have stepped in another political cow pattie.



The committee announced a stop-the-presses, Category-5, DEFCON-level-1 emergency hearing which would feature a witness with such explosive evidence, it would destroy, annihilate, utterly eradicate, and really, really hurt Donald Trump in a way that tales of peeing hookers at the Moscow Ritz Carlton could only hope to do.



Enter Cassidy Blasey Ford.



Her real name, of course, is Cassidy Hutchinson, which, come to think of it, may be among the few accurate words she uttered when she took the oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In the words of her attorneys, “she believes that it was her duty and responsibility to provide the committee with her truthful and candid observations of the events surrounding January 6.”



Speaking of “duty and responsibility,” considering that the committee deposed and questioned the former White House aide multiple times, one might think it would have, oh, I dunno, vetted the tripe before serving up a flaming hot pot of Menudo.



The previously unscheduled, emergency! televised hearing starring the brave 25-year-old former aide to former Donald Trump chief-of-staff Mark Meadows was caught in so many, ah, inconsistencies in her story that one could only conclude the committee wanted the inconsistencies to become the official record of what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.



Recommended: West Coast, Messed Coast™ – Governors Collude to Stop Constitutional ‘Kneecapping’ of Deep State



The latest inconsistency may be the most serious one. Hutchinson may have misidentified a Trump Administration DOJ attorney — whose house was subsequently tossed, and all of whose electronics were confiscated by the Department of Justice. All while he was forced to stand outside in his pajamas. Oopsie!



Mike Davis, a D.C. attorney, former Supreme Court clerk, and leader of the Article III Project, says he believes the aide mistook “J Clark” in the White House logs for DOJ Assistant Attorney General Jeff Clark instead of Trump’s former campaign aide and White House public liaison, Justin Clark.



“On March 7, 2022, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to @january6thcmte that former senior Justice Department official Jeff Clark strategized at White House with Giuliani and Trump campaign to object to election. 100% false. They’ve never met or communicated.”



Davis included a page of Hutchinson’s March 2022 testimony, in which she claimed Jeff Clark met frequently with Rudy Giuliani. Hutchinson did not attend the meetings.

Davis wants to get a look at the warrant that gave agents the right to search Davis’s home and seize his property. In a Twitter post, he asked, “did the DOJ Inspector General include Cassidy Hutchinson’s false testimony as evidence when obtaining search warrant for Jeff Clark’s home? Will DOJ release affidavits supporting search warrant? What potential crime are they investigating? Justification for early AM home raid? [sic]”



Davis was provided an email between Washington Post reporter Michael Kranish and Robert J. Costello, the attorney who represented Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani and whose electronics were similarly confiscated by the FBI despite attorney-client privilege. The WaPo reporter asked Costello if Giuliani met with Jeff Davis.

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