The Cassidy Hutchinson testimony before the Jan. 6th House Select Committee has likely doomed Donald Trump and cooked up a delicious bit of fallout, too.
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Cassidy Hutchinson is not only a former White House aide, but she was a special assistant to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. This means that she was in close proximity to Meadows’ office in the West Wing and a trusted member of Donald Trump’s inner circle.
So, when the House Select Committee announced earlier this week that they were presenting a surprise star witness with invaluable testimony about Jan. 6th — and then delivered Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday before a live television audience — it understandably sent shock waves through Republican circles and TrumpWorld.
Hutchinson told of how Trump cheered on rioters as they chanted violent threats against Vice President Mike Pence on January 6, 2021. She told of how Trump knew his MAGA supporters were armed and dangerous, and how he issued a failed order for the US Secret Service to let them through security barriers anyway despite their arsenal of assault weapons. She told of how Trump threw a hissy fit and attempted to commandeer his presidential vehicle (“The Beast”) once he realized his Secret Service detail was not driving him to the US Capitol along with his army of supporters. She also told of how she watched Meadows ignore the violence broadcast on his White House office TV and how neither Meadows nor Trump was willing to do anything to stop it.
Her testimony was so explosive and credible, that former Trump aides are already calling it “a bombshell” with potentially huge repercussions for ‘The Donald.’
“This is a bombshell. It’s stunning. It’s shocking. The story about ‘The Beast’ — I don’t have words. It’s just stunning,” said one Trump adviser.
“This paints a picture of Trump completely unhinged and completely losing all control which, for his base, they think of him as someone who is in command at all times. This completely flies in the face of that,” the adviser continued.
Now, the fallout has begun — and it’s oh so delicious!
“This was basically a campaign commercial for (Florida Gov.) Ron DeSantis 2024,” said one Trump ally.
“For the first time since the hearings started, no one is dismissing this,” the Trump adviser concluded.
He couldn’t have been more correct.
For weeks, Donald Trump and his minions have attempted to diminish the hearings as “a witch hunt” and dismiss the witnesses as “fake.”
Not this time.
Republicans and even Trump himself have gone eerily silent following the damning testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson. Many are reading that silence as an indirect admission that her testimony is true and credible.
Still, the most delicious fallout of all has come from Fox News.
Fox is traditionally known for coddling and protecting Trump, promoting his lies, and feeding their viewers with Republican propaganda that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Not this time.
In the biggest surprise “about-face” of the century, Fox News has now flipped on ‘The Donald.’
“The evidence pretty clearly shows his unfitness,” Fox News analyst Andy McCarthy said this week.
“There have been, as you know, more than 70 court cases where there was not evidence and there was not any state legislature or governor that failed to certify an election, including [Arizona] Republican Doug Ducey,” said Fox News host Brett Baier.
“The president was unhinged during that period,” said Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade, who reportedly had a direct line to Trump during the Capitol riot. “[This was] the worst moment of Donald Trump’s political career,” he continued. “I think how you lose in life defines who you are … A lot of times things don’t work out and are so-called unfair. Your team couldn’t prove [the election was rigged], move on.”
The Cassidy Hutchinson testimony has become possibly the most damaging of the entire hearing to date and everyone, including Donald Trump, knows it.
Her brave words were so effective, that most political pundits now admit it will almost assuredly take down several members of Donald Trump’s inner circle and perhaps even Trump himself.
Stay tuned…
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The fallout from the Cassidy Hutchinson testimony.
Great post DJ. You really nailed it!
Ms. Hutchinson may emerge as the “John Dean” of this disgracefully story when it’s all said and one. She’s only 25 and has shown more Courage than most of the older, white, FAKE alpha-males who served in the Trump administration and supported that dangerous fool
Her testimony was incredibly detailed and compelling, to say the least. And I, for one, am most grateful to her for the rick she’s taken to try to save her country – Our country -and also Our democracy!