The House Administration Committee Oversight Subcommittee releases a report saying there is “no evidence” that President-elect Donald Trump supported the mob that called for former Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged on January 6, 2021. did.
In the interim report released The commission on Tuesday released its “Findings of the Events” surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol and the “politicization” of the Jan. 6 task force.
Among the list of findings included in the report are that President Trump “did not attack the Secret Service detail” at any point during the day and that “a pre-planned, off-the-record move to the Capitol was This included things that revealed that the incident had not been carried out for several days. Until January 6th,” there is “no evidence” that Trump “agreed with the mob” to call for Pence to be hanged.
The report found that the special committee on January 6th relied “on none other than” testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to President Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
“The task force relied on nothing other than Mr. Hutchinson's testimony and falsely asserted in its report that President Trump agreed with rioters chanting that Vice President Pence deserved to be hanged,” the report said. It is written.
The report added that Hutchinson “did not mention” in previous “interviews with the Select Committee” the allegations that Trump supported the claim that Pence “deserves to be hanged,” adding that Hutchinson “did not mention” the allegations that Trump supported the claim that Pence “deserves to be hanged” and that in 2022 He added that he brought it up in an interview in May.
Cassidy Hutchinson explained how President Trump supported the idea that Vice President Pence deserved to be hanged. Initially, Hutchinson did not mention this allegation or anything related to the hanging in interviews with the Select Committee on February 23, 2022 or March 7, 2022. The first time this topic came up at all was in her interview on May 17, 2022, at the urging of Congresswoman Cheney.
The report goes on to note that Hutchinson's “original narrative regarding the chanting incident lacks internal consistency.” According to the report, Hutchinson initially said that Meadows and Trump had “personally seen and heard about the rioters shouting about hanging” Pence and “how they personally felt about it at the time.” “I did it,” he claimed.
Later, Hutchinson claimed “in the same interview” that she had “no first-hand knowledge” of Trump's feelings about the rioters' chants, adding, “I saw Trump discussing it with Meadows. “I had never seen or heard of it before,” the report said. .
The report said that the “most specific allegation” Hutchinson made during the interview regarding the “alleged conversation” between Trump and Meadows was that it was between Meadows and a “white lawyer.” It added that this was due to “a third party eavesdropping” on the person's conversation with his lawyer. as House legal adviser and senior adviser to Mr. Trump,” according to the report.
In fact, the most specific allegation Hutchinson made in the same interview about the alleged conversation between President Trump and Meadows was between Meadows and two Pasqually attorneys who worked as White House advisers and senior advisers to President Trump. This was due to a third party eavesdropping on the conversation. “Pat” Cipollone (“Cipollone”) and Eric Hirschman (“Hirschman”), respectively. Hutchinson attributed her claim that Trump agreed to the rioters' chants to her recollection of this conversation. In her words, “Mr. Trump had tentatively potentially said perhaps perhaps The chant was justified. ”
The task force accepted Hutchinson's three conflicting stories about the same incident at face value in its final report. This level of indifference to the truthers of Hutchinson's claims pervades the special committee's report, where Rep. Cheney and House Democrats turned certain alleged ideas into full-fledged accusations, or in most cases. It serves to highlight the willingness to expand to foregone conclusions.
The report states that on January 6, 2021, “nearly 18 months after the incident” and “one month after the testimony,” Hutchinson “confessed to the “I suddenly remembered the specific details of the conversation.”
The report goes on to say that “Loudermilk and the subcommittee investigated the task force's interviews with White House officials who were 'close' to Trump during much of January 6, 2021, and who reliably testified to the president's actions. It added that the records had been recovered. The employee's “eyewitness testimony” reportedly “directly contradicts Hutchinson's third-party testimony.”
“This individual was within earshot of President Trump the entire time the President was in the presidential dining room,” the report continued. “Furthermore, during its investigation, the subcommittee interviewed numerous individuals who worked closely with Mr. Meadows in the White House, including Mr. Meadows's pathetic response to calls for violence and Mr. Hutchinson's “We have confirmed that we will not repeat the incident that was carelessly claimed” in a public place. ”
