{"id":9882,"date":"2024-12-25T07:31:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2024-12-25T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T12:31:54","slug":"speaker-johnson-shielded-dishonest-j6-committee-star-witness-from-gop-subpoena-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=9882","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson Shielded Dishonest J6 Committee &#8216;Star Witness&#8217; From GOP Subpoena; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Ken Silva<br \/>\nHeadline USA<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years, the Republican-controlled House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight found numerous inconsistencies and outright lies in the testimony of<strong>\u00a0Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission\u2019s \u201cstar witness\u201d in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1000-1-3-e1657161654411-696x350.jpeg.jpg?itok=qC6u4jDU\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/1000-1-3-e1657161654411-696x350.jpeg.jpg?itok=qC6u4jDU\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/1000-1-3-e1657161654411-696x350.jpeg.jpg?itok=qC6u4jDU\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"7750becf-e8ba-4cb6-8347-09a76ff04c6a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Subcommittee apparently wanted to subpoena Hutchinson about her testimony. But<strong>\u00a0according to a Tuesday report from Breitbart, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked that from moving forward.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Breitbart noted that the Oversight Subcommittee\u2019s recent final report on Jan. 6 mentions Hutchinson by name 268 times, but didn\u2019t reference bringing her in for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Johnson (R-LA) personally intervened to block the subcommittee from issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson<\/strong>,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2024\/12\/23\/exclusive-speaker-johnson-denies-blocking-rep-barry-loudermilk-subcommittees-subpoena-cassidy-hutchinson\/\">Breitbart reported<\/a>, citing an unnamed source.\u00a0<strong>\u201cJohnson, in a statement to Breitbart News, called that claim \u2018clearly false.<\/strong>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Administration Subcommittee\u2019s\u00a0findings against Hutchinson are related to her June 28, 2022, testimony, when she said that she personally wrote a proposed Tweet on Jan. 6, 2021, for President Donald Trump to send advising rioters to leave the Capitol.\u00a0The text of that proposed Tweet said, \u201cANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY\u201d\u2014with the word ILLEGALLY scratched out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1871573339908739546&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Freport-speaker-johnson-shielded-dishonest-j6-committee-star-witness-gop-subpoena&amp;sessionId=c6a1623ee3ffe484d5781317137191226e2be11e&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1871573339908739546\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>At the time, Hutchinson testified that she wrote the note as dictated by then-Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows and Eric Herschmann, one of the President\u2019s attorneys. However, Herschmann alleged that Hutchinson was lying, and that he was the one who wrote the note.<\/p>\n<p>The House Administration Subcommittee said in October that it hired a handwriting analyst to review the note and determine who wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>After a thorough analysis, their certified handwriting analyst stated in the report that \u2018the evidence supports my opinion that the handwriting that appears on the Questioned Document was written in the same hand as the exemplars [Herschmann]<\/strong>,\u2019\u201d the House Administration Subcommittee said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new evidence provided by an independent, Certified Questioned Document Examiner, not only contradicts Ms. Hutchinson\u2019s numerous claims that she penned the note, but also exposes the Select Committee\u2019s willingness to accept all her testimonies without corroboration or further investigation,\u201d Subcommittee on Oversight Chair\u00a0Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The subcommittee also found that then-January 6th Commission\u00a0Vice Chair Liz Cheney secretly communicated with Hutchinson, and may have pressured her to fire her attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Hutchinson was caught changing her testimony during the course of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, as has been widely documented.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically,<strong>\u00a0Hutchinson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/headlineusa.com\/j6-tribunal-tvs-secret-star-flops-inquisitions-credibility-shredded\/\">testified on June 28, 2022<\/a>, that Trump tried to control the steering wheel while being driven to the White House following his Jan. 6 speech. Additionally, she claimed that the former president lunged at another agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, in her previous three transcribed interviews on February 23, 2022, March 7, 2022, and May 17, 2022, she did not mention that interaction, according to a later investigation from Loudermilk\u2019s committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Subcommittee has recommended that the FBI investigate Cheney for potential witness-tampering charges.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jd_cashless\"><em>x.com\/jd_cashless<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/report-speaker-johnson-shielded-dishonest-j6-committee-star-witness-gop-subpoena\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/report-speaker-johnson-shielded-dishonest-j6-committee-star-witness-gop-subpoena<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}