Liz Cheney Defends Cassidy Hutchinson After Secret Service Agents Reportedly Refute Her Testimony

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U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney says she has no doubts about the truth behind Cassidy Hutchinson’s Jan. 6 committee testimony after Secret Service agents reportedly refuted her story about former President Donald Trump’s behavior that day.

Cheney, a key member of the Jan. 6 congressional committee who has become one of the faces of the hearings, said in an interview with ABC News to be broadcast Thursday morning that she was “absolutely confident in her credibility — I’m confident in her testimony.”

“The committee’s not going to stand by and watch her character be assassinated by anonymous sources and by men who are claiming executive privilege,” Cheney said of the former White House aide.

According to several reports citing anonymous sources, the Secret Service agents who would have been in Trump’s SUV on Jan. 6, 2021 — when Hutchinson testified he “lunged” at the wheel of the car and the neck of a Secret Service agent after his request to go to the U.S. Capitol was refused — have said they were prepared to testify her account wasn’t true.

“Look, I think what Cassidy Huthinson did was an unbelievable example of bravery and of courage and of patriotism in the face of real pressure,” Cheney said in the ABC News interview, a 50-second excerpt of which was published Wednesday night.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/liz-cheney-defends-cassidy-hutchinson-034357511.html

[Deuxcents]

1. She's definitely brave and the men can't find their spines

Their lack of character tells us ..no surprise, just so maddening

[speak easy]

3. 'the men can't find their spines'

and as a man I should say ... some of them had nothing more than nothing pathetic dick stories lies.

[JohnSJ]

2. It is also disgusting that the media does not report the very important detail, that Ms. Hutchinson

made it clear that this event was related to her by a second party.

These anonymous sources are leaving that detail out.

It makes it even more obvious that Pence was right NOT to get into the car with the SS during the insurection.

Cheney is also right these anonymous sources and MEN who are caliming executive privilege

If they are prepared to testify before the Committee UNDER OATH, then do it already. Cowards

[Kaleva]

4. All the media I've watched make that clear

CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN.

They also report that the important thing is that Trump knew many of his supporters had weapons and he encouraged them, along with the unarmed supporters to march to the Capitol

[JohnSJ]

5. I don't see it in this Yahoo link is. Maybe I missed it

[Kaleva]

6. I spent the evening watching YouTube news segments

covering Cassidy's testimony from all the channels I listed

[JohnSJ]

7. I am referring to the link in THIS OP from Yahoo.

[Kaleva]

8. You didn't see it in this particular piece from Yahoo

And you said the media doesn't make it clear that Cassidy heard this from a secondary source and I replied that the media does make that clear and that's based on all the news segments covering the story I watched last evening

[ShazzieB]

10. MSNBC was definitely all over this.

I didn't watch anything other than MSNBC, but I'm glad to hear other news sources were in agreement on this.

If what Cassidy said wasn't accurate, it's because somebody lied to HER. Gee, I wonder who that could have been? One of the people that is now calling her a liar, maybe?

[dchill]

9. The men who told this story to Cassidy Hutchinson...

...are the Secret Service agents who were in the car with Trump. They're not just liars, they're fully culted. I'd like to see them deny their story under oath.

[BigmanPigman]

11. The Jan 2 Comm. has tons of evidence backed up by

many credible sources before they ever begin to plan who should testify in public. They are 100% sure of everything we have seen and they have tons more info too.

They have to go into all the characters in the war room at the Willard Hotel, all the GQP congresscritters who gave tours, all the Secret Service and other law enforcement enablers, etc. A zillion crimes were committed by many, many people.

[smb]

12. Maybe Ornato & Engle Just Plain Don't Remember Cheato Lunging For The Wheel

I mean, if you have a badly-behaved toddler, do you remember every single bit of bad behavior they did a year and a half ago?

[Novara]

13. I keep telling people that this is not the story

Who cares about temper tantrums? Not like we didn't already suspect he acts like a spoiled toddler on crack.

This is not the story. THE story is his knowing and encouraging heavily armed and violent insurrectionists to storm the Capitol, further enraging them by calling Pence a coward, and gleefully enjoying the possibility that the mob would spill congressional/VP blood. THAT IS THE STORY. He wanted people to get hurt. "They're not here to hurt ME." The implication is that it's okay for them to hurt Pence and anyone else who wasn't giving the toddler his way, no matter how illegal.

Also? Not one of them will come in under oath to testify to hearsay evidence. It's always so easy to criticize from the sidelines. It's a lot harder to put yourself on the line under oath like Ms. Hutchinson did. And they know it. They know she's got bigger balls (for lack of a better term) than they do and they're ashamed. They won't testify under oath because they're cowards.

Besides, what purpose could it possibly serve for the committee to get derailed in a she said/they said spat? They've got much bigger fish to fry.

So when people start talking about the sensationalist crap, I keep moving the conversation to the orange motherfucker's attempted murder. I know he won't be charged with it but in my mind, it's exactly what he hoped for in sending a heavily armed insurrectionist violent mob to storm the Capitol.

[maxsolomon]

15. Its the camel's nose under the tent. It's Ad Hominem.

Find the one flaw, magnify it, focus on it. When you discredit one statement, you can dismiss them all.

See: "Rathergate".

[Novara]

16. This is why we fight back.

[meadowlander]

14. What are the odds she's the only person they shared this juicy gossip with?

[maxsolomon]

17. Maybe pretty good.

It was really fresh, as they had just experienced it, and she was in the circle of trust.

They may have been exaggerating Trump's actions, too. They're denying the grabbing/choking, but are they denying that he wanted to go to the Capitol?

[Mr. Ected]

18. Compare her hours-long testimony, under oath, in front of Congress and millions of American people

To the anonymous tweets and whispered, off-the-record assertions that the news media runs with.

The media gives equal credence to the latter as it does the former, and THAT's why people are misinformed and misdirected.

[Emile]

19. If there was talk about it at the White House

and Cassidy heard it second hand, you can be sure SOMETHING HAPPENED.