On January 6, 2021, Cassidy Hutchinson was working in the office of Mark Meadows, President Trump’s Chief of Staff.  Cassidy is evidently a young woman of conscience, and she was deeply disturbed by the events of that day.  There were other workers in the Trump administration who were perhaps equally concerned, and rumors about the happenings on January 6 began to spread.

Cassidy was very critical of President Trump’s actions on January 6, and she soon felt the consequence of being out of step with other members of the White House staff, most of whom remained Trump loyalists.  When the House of Representatives’ January 6 Committee began looking for defectors in the Trump ranks, they soon found Cassidy.

Cassidy testified before the January 6 Committee in June 2022, and her testimony was described as “compelling” and “explosive.”  Cassidy was an attractive and apparently sincere witness.  Her more sensational charges were in reference to Trump’s actions during the January 6 riot.  She said that Trump insisted on going to the Capitol during the rioting and had struggled with secret service officers for control of the Presidential limousine.  She said the President had to be restrained before finally desisting in his effort.

This was sensational testimony and very damaging to Trump.  His supporters tried to question the veracity of Cassidy’s account, but the anti-Trump media made the most of it.  Cassidy became a hero to the left.

The obvious weakness of Cassidy’s testimony was the fact that her most sensational charges were based on hearsay, the sort of evidence that would never be allowed in a criminal trial.  Cassidy did not say that she witnessed the distressing events that she so vividly described,  but she had heard these accounts from others.  Of course, the January 6 Committee lapped it up and did not look for exculpatory testimony.  Some months later the committee issued a highly critical report on the activities of Trump and associates during the so-called insurrection. Cassidy Hutchinson’s graphic account of Trump’s apparently irrational actions that day was included.

But was Cassidy’s account correct?   What did Secret Service agents say about what happened on January 6?  The committee’s report was silent on that subject.

Finally, on August 2, 2024, the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security released a redacted version  of a United States Secret Service report on its activities on January 6, 2021.

The report confirms that there was never a plan for President Trump to go to the Capitol prior to January 6. On that day Trump requested to go to the Capitol following his speech on the Ellipse, but the Secret Service advised against it and President Trump returned to the White House.  The President never lunged for or grabbed the steering wheel of the Presidential limousine.

The Inspector General’s report directly refutes two major claims by Cassidy Hutchinson that the January 6 Committee stated were credible.  Actually, the Committee had learned the truth from interviewing first-hand witnesses, but it never released their testimony.

It is obvious that the sole purpose of the January 6 Committee was to hang Donald Trump.

It also appears that the mainstream media will ignore the inspector general’s report.  I had to search hard to find it. 

Neither the committee nor the media want truth to get in the way of a Trump hanging party.