J6 Committee Charade Revealed by Jack Smith
by Byron York, Washington Examiner (excerpt)
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
The world has moved on; the news is dominated by Venezuela and the midterm elections, now just months away.
But in recent weeks, Jack Smith, the prosecutor chosen by the Biden administration to pursue President Donald Trump, revealed something remarkable about Jan. 6, or, more specifically, about the high-profile congressional “investigation” conducted by the House Jan. 6 Committee.
Smith’s revelation concerned the committee’s most sensational testimony, from former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Once a top assistant to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Hutchinson first told her story to the committee on Feb. 23, 2022. In three separate interviews, she had little if anything notable to say.
Then, in June, Hutchinson changed lawyers and offered the committee a really big story: On Jan. 6, she said, then-President Trump demanded that the Secret Service drive him to the Capitol, and when agents declined to do so, Trump physically attacked his own Secret Service detail in an effort to grab the wheel of the presidential limousine and point it toward the Capitol.
According to a New York Times account of the inner workings of the committee, Hutchinson told the tale directly to committee vice-chair Liz Cheney, who became so excited that she ordered the committee to hold a new hearing ASAP.
The television showrunner who crafted the committee’s hearings came up with a script, and the other members of the committee, who essentially served as extras in the show, were told to show up, shut up, and look serious while Hutchinson told her story to a national TV audience.
Hutchinson’s testimony raised immediate and obvious questions, although they did not seem immediate or obvious to most of the press covering the show.
The questions were:
What did the Secret Service agents who were in the car say about what happened?
What about the driver?
They were the people who were there at the time — Hutchinson was in the White House and never saw any of it. What did they say?
Why not ask them?
Cheney did not tell the public that the committee had already …