Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), a member of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, said on Sunday that new witnesses have come forward since Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the panel publicly last week.
“This happens every day,” Kinzinger told CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash. “Every day we get new people that come forward and say, ‘Hey, I didn’t think maybe this piece of the story that I knew was important.'”
The committee had planned to pause its public hearings until later in July but suddenly scheduled last week’s hearing with Hutchinson, a Trump official who served as an aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Hutchinson testified that former President Trump knew the crowd gathered for his rally on Jan. 6 was armed, and she said he wanted the Secret Service to remove metal detectors on the edge of the Ellipse so more people would enter the security perimeter and fill empty space.
She also testified that Trump lunged for the steering wheel in his Secret Service vehicle following the rally in an attempt to join his supporters at the Capitol.
Members of the Secret Service who were in the car are reportedly prepared to testify that they were not assaulted by Trump, however, and that the former president did not try to grab the steering wheel.
That response has led many Republicans to cast doubt on Hutchinson’s credibility. Kinzinger on Sunday declined to say what corroborating evidence the committee has to back up her claims.
“Cassidy Hutchinson has testified under oath,” Kinzinger said. “We find her credible, and anybody that wants to cast disparagement on that that was firsthand present should come and also testify under oath and not through anonymous sources.”
adjunct_trash on July 3rd, 2022 at 17:32 UTC »
I'm happy for anything helps keep Trump out of politics, but I don't believe for a second Kinzinger's depiction of the well-meaning conservatives who just suddenly realized their part of the story is important. This is just the moment in the movie when the other members of the gang realize Donny Two Times is risking the whole enterprise and its time to cut him lose. He's just called a vote and other gangsters just needed The Hutch to let 'em know she's not going along anymore to find their spines.
Fuck Donald Trump and fuck every Republican who has coddled, accepted, acceded to, or elevated him over this miserable half a decade. We still have darker days ahead but I will sigh with relief when the racist gameshow host finally retires to Mar-a-Moscow to spend his last days pulling his little mushroom prick on his ketchup stained bed trying to remember what Ivanka looked like before she said she believed Bill Barr.
ImLikeReallySmart on July 3rd, 2022 at 16:33 UTC »
Exactly.
digbick-j on July 3rd, 2022 at 16:21 UTC »
My assumption has been that if Ornato testifies under oath that he never told her that story, another witness will come forward to say that he told them the story too