The campaign to discredit Cassidy Hutchinson has begun

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In the hours after Cassidy Hutchinson delivered bombshell testimony to the Jan. 6 committee Tuesday, former President Trump and his allies rushed to attack the former White House staffer.

Hutchinson, who served as an aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, told the panel that Trump was aware that some of his supporters were armed when he urged them to march to the Capitol. She also testified that Anthony Ornato, then the deputy White House chief of staff, told her the president was so “irate” that the Secret Service would not drive him to the Capitol that he reached for the steering wheel and lunged at an agent.

Trump and his allies have seized on media reports of pushback from unnamed Secret Service sources to paint Hutchinson's sworn testimony as unreliable. So far, though, none of the people who have disputed Hutchinson's story have done so under oath. Now members of the Jan. 6 committee, Hutchinson's lawyer, and several of Hutchinson's former Trump administration colleagues are challenging her critics to follow the 25-year-old's lead and testify before Congress under penalty of perjury.

“The lies and fabricated stories being told to the partisan Highly Unselect Committee, not only by the phony social climber who got caught yesterday, but by many others, are a disgrace to our, in serious decline, Nation,” Trump wrote Wednesday morning on his social media platform, Truth Social. “No cross examination, no real Republicans, no lawyers, NO NOTHING. Fake stories and an all Fake Narrative being produced, with ZERO pushback allowed. Unselects should be forced to disband. WITCH HUNT!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/campaign-discredit-cassidy-hutchinson-begun-211619967.html

Sounds the standard Trump gaslighting, "People are saying...."

[Scrivener7]

1. Fortunately, they are doing a terrible job of it.

[Leith]

2. It's surprising that it took them so long

The next day?! They're slipping. They used to start within minutes.

[MiniMe]

16. No, it started yesterday

Right after the hearing.

[bottomofthehill]

3. Swear them in and ask them questions.

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's how we know it was a mortal blow

as Trump and his little magats can't help but highlight their guilt. They are indeed the dumbest criminals.

[MerryHolidays]

5. Interesting

Perhaps it's because they are too busy taking the Fifth or refusing to testify? Whadya' think, Ketchup-Flinging Backseat Strangler?

“No cross examination, no real Republicans, no lawyers, NO NOTHING. Fake stories and an all Fake Narrative being produced, with ZERO pushback allowed. Unselects should be forced to disband. WITCH HUNT!”

And Strangler, where's your testimony under oath too?

[Generic Other]

9. That name is gonna stick in my head like catsup on the walls

"Get away from my country you [catsup]-Flinging Backseat Strangler!" Rolls off the tongue like a sweet tart.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. This is amazing!!!

These fucking MAGAT's don't seem to grasp that the more they try to discredit and slander her, the more credibility they give her testimony, on top of the very compelling testimony given.

They are definitely terrified of her revelations and all else that's coming down the pike in the next few weeks.

[empedocles]

7. Saw fox at 7:05et pm. 'Watter' did a 6 minute dismissal of 'Sciff's star witness'

[Cassidy] 'who had nothing.

Followed by a 5 minute live rehab of mccarthy [irony that program was directed against phony Jan 6 affair, but fox seem to have overlooked mccarthy's well publicized 'riot' comments at the time.

[Docreed2003]

8. "A phony social climber"

See Cassidy, none of your accomplishments matter in their eyes...to them you're just a "phony social climber". Yeah Trump may have said it but your GOP buddies are sure not standing up for you.

[Generic Other]

11. Honesty as a default

They call her an outrageous name but it turns out that's what they always thought of her. In fact that's the only type of woman they want around.

[Docreed2003]

14. Exactly right.

[Raven]

10. "social climber"...Trump is projecting again. n/t

[Generic Other]

12. Perspective

If you are in the lowest circle of Dante's Inferno, like he is, it's a climb.

[Raven]

13. Yeah. Who wants to put up with a fat guy who wears makeup and brags about himself

all the time. They won't put up with that in the lower reaches either.

[Generic Other]

18. He sounds like an Emperor wannabe

with jealous wives and courtesans. Everyone acting like a sister wife. Competing for position for their children. Palace eunuchs in the background. Ears everywhere. But only young nubile women for the emperor's eyes.

[moondust]

15. Of course.

1. She was under oath. I'm not aware of any previous accusations of her being a liar willing to risk perjury charges.

2. It is highly unlikely that she would make up a rather detailed story out of thin air of how Flabby McGrabby slumped in the back seat and got really mad, insisted he was the President, lunged at the steering wheel, and grabbed at the driver's neck. Engel the driver was there when Ornato told her the story and he did not deny it.

[LiberalFighter]

17. There was some discussion about Ornato's position

Going from Secret Service to deputy White House chief of staff and then back to Secret Service.