Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, wants answers from former Rep. Liz Cheney regarding the January 6th investigation.
The left and the J6 committee marched Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, around as if she had the golden ticket to take down Trump.
Hutchinson’s testimony included a violent struggle between Trump and the Secret Service limo driver. She got the story from Tony Ornato, White House deputy chief of staff for operation:
“I looked at Tony, and he had said, ‘Did you f-ing hear what happened in the Beast?'” Hutchinson recalled, using the nickname for the presidential vehicle. “I said, ‘No Tony, I just got back, what happened?’ Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the Beast, he was under the impression that the off-the-record movement to the Capitol was still possible, and likely to happen, but that Bobby had more information.””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, you 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 said Ornato described Trump “as being irate.”Trump “said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,'” Hutchinson testified. “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 and 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.'”Hutchinson added that Trump “then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned toward his” collarbone.Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., then asked Hutchinson if [Head of Trump security detail Bobby] Engel disagreed with any part of the story Ornato relayed. Hutchinson said he did not.
Well, Loudermilk revealed to Just the News that the J6 committee delayed and suppressed the driver’s testimony.
Interesting. Why would they do that?
Oh, probably because it contradicts Hutchinson’s testimony. The transcript shows the driver “testified Trump never tried to reach for or grab the wheel of the SUV as Hutchinson, who wasn’t in the vehicle, alleged in her testimony.”
The committee didn’t interview the driver until after the November 2020 election, even though he offered to testify in July, August, and September.
Loudermilk said the driver’s attorney started the session “by chastising the select committee” for delaying the testimony for so long.”
“So we found out for the first time that the driver had been offering to come in and testify under oath as far back as just a few weeks after Cassidy made these claims, but the select committee would not bring them in,” Loudermilk told the outlet.
Cheney claimed the committee wanted all Secret Service documents before allowing any detail to testify. However, she didn’t say why they allowed Hutchinson to testify before all documents came to them.
Loudermilk is ticked off:
During his interview Tuesday, Loudermilk made clear that he has deep concerns about the way Thompson and Cheney conducted the January 6 investigation, noting they kept transcripts from his committee for months after he took over and still have not produced videotapes of many of the interviews.“Well, it’s kind of clear that it either was the worst case of preserving documents in the history of the House of Representatives, or that they were only trying to keep those testimonies away,” he said. “Because, you know, immediately they bring Cassidy Hutchinson to the forefront, then they wait until November to even bring in the Secret Service agent.”
It gets better.
The committee wants Alyssa Farrah Griffin, the former White House director of strategic communication under Trump, to hand over all communications with the following:
Loudermilk is most interested in communications with Hutchinson because, in her memoir, she suggested that Griffin at least initially acted as a conduit between herself and Cheney.
Loudermilk wrote to Griffin:
According to public reports, numerous sit-down interviews, and Cassidy Hutchinson’s memoir Enough, you spoke to Ms. Hutchinson about her testimony to the Select Committee during the summer of 2021. A review of the documents provided by the Select Committee resulted in questions about the veracity of Ms. Hutchinson’s public and private testimony to the Select Committee. Ms. Hutchinson specifically cites her conversation with you as one reason her testimony changed so dramatically.For example, in Enough, Ms. Hutchinson claims that you and her “talked over [her] options, and [you] agreed to contact Liz Cheney on [her] behalf about scheduling another interview [with the Select Committee].” She then recounts that during this conversation, she shared that the Select Committee “never asked if [she] went to the Oval [Office] dining room on January 6, or whether [she] heard about Trump’s reaction to the rioters chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence.’ According to Mark [Meadows], Trump said, ‘He deserves it.’” These stories Cassidy has later claimed to have been privy to were never discussed prior to this meeting at your Georgetown row house. There are no texts, emails, or verbal exchanges that have been verified where Ms. Hutchinson discussed these explosive claims, apart from your conversation, before testifying to the Select Committee.
In September 2023, Griffin admitted “that she acted as a back channel between Hutchinson and the Jan. 6 committee before her third closed-door interview and subsequent bombshell testimony.”
For some reason, Hutchinson told Griffin, and not the committee, some “damning” information, including Meadows burning documents at the White House.
Lawyers linked to Trump represented Hutchinson.
The committee only found out when Griffin told Cheney:
“What we ultimately came up with is I said, ‘What if I can take this information to Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and see if she can call you back, and in the meantime, we can look at trying to get you representation pro bono,’” Griffin recalled.It ultimately led to Cheney asking Hutchinson questions at their next meeting about details that were more revealing and painted a darker picture than her previous sit-downs with the committee, including accusations that Trump said his then-Vice President Mike Pence “deserves” rioters calling for his hanging.
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