Jack Smith Admits Star January 6 Witness Relied on Hearsay
We all knew Cassidy Hutchinson filled her 2022 testimony with hearsay as it was going on.
Former Jack Smith dropped a bomb during a deposition with Congress.
Smith admitted that January 6 star witness Cassidy Hutchinson relied on hearsay for her testimony.
From Fox News:
Asked during the deposition how he would have approached cross-examining Hutchinson, Smith said he would have moved to prohibit a portion of her testimony from being used.
“If I were a defense attorney and Ms. Hutchinson were a witness, the first thing I would do was seek to preclude some of her testimony because it was hearsay, and I don’t have the full range of her testimony in front of me right now, but I do remember that that was a decent part of it,” Smith said.
Smith was also asked about specific claims Hutchinson had made, including that Trump was aware that some of his supporters would be armed at his rally and that Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel of his driver out of anger.
Hutchinson “was a second or even thirdhand witness,” Smith said, adding that other witnesses gave “different perspectives” than her.
Did you ever play the game telephone? The original message, no matter how simple, seemed to be messed up by the time it got to the third person!
I’m not shocked Smith admitted it. I wrote in 2022 that Hutchinson’s testimony went up in flames almost as soon as she finished it.
We all knew it was hearsay. Hutchinson literally told Congress “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.”
Cassidy Hutchinson testifies 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. https://t.co/JefVhEsY0b pic.twitter.com/uUyQcnSlLG
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 28, 2022
First off, it’s all hearsay: “information received from other people that one cannot adequately substantiate; rumor.” It’s not a trial but it’s still gossip. I do not understand why anyone would allow hearsay in a formal and supposed important setting.
Especially since it can be disproved. It didn’t take long for sources to come out to dispute Hutchinson’s testimony. Video also shows Trump in an SUV not The Beast.
This is from a tweet by a protected account:
ABC’s @PierreTABC: “A source close to the Secret Service just told me to expect that the secret service will push back against any allegation of an assault against an agent or President Trump reaching for the steering wheel.”
It looks like Smith actually interviewed the Secret Service agents:
“We interviewed, I think, the people she talked to, and we also interviewed, if my recollection is correct, officers who were there, including the officer who was in the car,” Smith said. “And that officer, if my recollection is correct, and I want to make sure I’m right about this, said that President Trump was very angry and wanted to go to the Capitol, but the version of events that he explained was not the same as what Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard from somebody secondhand.”
Smith noted that “a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people and, as a result, that testimony may or may not be admissible, and it certainly wouldn’t be as powerful as firsthand testimony.”
Beyond embarrassing. Embarrassing.
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Former Jack Smith
What did he change his name to?
Or did someone drop a word?
He added “ass” to the end of his first name.
Jan 6 committee (the first one) – not even a show trial run by clowns…
It’s not hearsay, it’s an outright lie. Cassidy was *coached* by Liz Cheney to change her testimony. After several days of relative bland testimony, Cassidy and Liz vanished out of sight of Cassidy’s lawyer, and when they emerged, suddenly Cassidy had “new testimony she had just recalled’ which (of course) was swatted down by the Secret Service agents who were actual eyewitnesses to the event not-happening, which did not happen hours later, but almost immediately. Afterwards, Cassidy has followed the normal route of people who abruptly turn to the Democrats’ side: Book deal, sweetheart job, and fawning press coverage. The book by itself is impressive. It is so ghostwritten it practically floats.
You made the wrong choice
It was at least double hear say. she heard about it from someone else who also wasn’t there.
Hutchinson “was a second or even thirdhand witness,” Smith said,
It wouldn’t even have mattered had her “testimony” been true. People attending a protest have a constitutional right to be armed. And Trump did want to join the march on the Capitol, as was his right. The Secret Service had no right to prevent him from attending it; it was their job to make sure he could do so safely, not to tell him he couldn’t go.
The big lie here was that there was something sinister about the march on the Capitol, that it was somehow an “insurrection”, that violence was planned. It was to be a peaceful protest of the exact kind that has been traditional in Washington for well over a century.
can someone explain to me
in monosyllable words
why Mr. Smith is not awaiting
trial …
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