Posted on 07/01/2022 4:56:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
NeverTrump is up to its old tricks: bashing Trump, berating his supporters, and cheering his latest nemeses who almost always end up as farcical as NeverTrumpers themselves.
At least their taste in Trump antagonists is getting better.
After more than six years of bandwagoning with every haggard nemesis of Donald Trump—Stormy Daniels, Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Alexander Vindman, and Marie Yovanovitch to name a few—NeverTrump reunited this week to swoon over a telegenic 25-year-old former aide in Trump’s White House: Cassidy Hutchinson. The latest actor to offer a cameo appearance in the January 6 select committee’s show trial caught the collective eye of pundits on the putative Right whose mypoic contempt for Donald Trump caused them to be wrong about basically everything since 2016.
Playing the part of the aged rescuer to the J6 damsel-in-distress, NeverTrump praised her courage and defended her uncorroborated and at times outlandish claims about Trump’s conduct related to the events of January 6. Over-the-top descriptions of her surprise performance headlined their immediate reaction to her two-hour testimony.
National Review’s Andrew McCarthy appeared the most smitten with the former intern for Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.). Her testimony, McCarthy insisted, was “spellbinding,” “compelling,” “stunning,” “riveting,” and “devastating” to Trump.
“Things will never be the same after this,” the former federal prosecutor warned in a column published Tuesday evening. “All in all, though, Hutchinson showed the nation, moment by moment, what he was like on a day when, undeniably, Trump was at his worst.”
McCarthy’s former NR colleague David French was similarly awestruck. Before Tuesday, French explained in a lengthy fan letter to Hutchinson at The Dispatch, he had little hope the committee would produce evidence to prove Trump was criminally responsible for what happened on January 6.
Like McCarthy, French said everything changed for him after the committee’s matinee show on Tuesday. “Today’s is different,” French confessed. “Because of a courageous woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Mark Meadows. Earlier this afternoon she gave the most extraordinary congressional testimony I’ve ever seen.”
His boss, Steve Hayes, could barely contain himself. “I’ve covered politics for almost 30 years. I’ve never heard anything as jaw-dropping as what we just heard from Cassidy Hutchinson,” Hayes tweeted. “President Trump wanted a coup. He was—and remains—a threat to the Republic.”
Over at the Washington Examiner, the site’s NeverTrumpers quickly raced to Hutchinson’s defense, even helping to inflate her professional bonafides.
“Hutchinson’s resume alone should establish her credibility,” the Examiner’s editorial board stated. “The 25-year-old had already worked at the highest levels of conservative Republican politics.” (She graduated from college in 2019.) “She did not overstate things, did not seem to be seeking attention, and was very precise about how and why she knew what she related and about which testimony was firsthand and which was secondhand but able to be corroborated.”
LOL.
Examiner columnist Tim Carney claimed Hutchinson “gave the most explosive testimony to date.” While noting some of the discrepancies in her testimony, Carney nonetheless cast aside those doubts to portray Trump exactly how Hutchinson and Cheney described him. “Trump wanted armed men on the White House lawn,” Carney wrote, without evidence. “He then wanted them to march from the White House to the Capitol, armed, in order to stop Congress from ratifying his opponent’s election victory.” Carney also erroneously claimed Trump was in charge of the Capitol Police.
One would be hard-pressed, however, to find a more obsequious—to the point of creepy—billet-doux than the article authored by Mona Charen.
In her best Single White Female voice, Charen, a once-respected voice of the conservative movement who lost her mind when Trump won the presidency, must have been drooling on her laptop as she wrote these words:
You have to wonder how Cassidy Hutchinson was raised. What did her parents do to instill a conscience and courage in such a young person? The most frightening thing we’ve learned over the past six years is just how indifferent the vast majority of the Republican party is to the rule of law, the Constitution, basic decency, and truth. But there have also been ordinary men and women who met the moment with grace and integrity. Their examples prove that the flame of liberty has not been extinguished. If this republic survives, Liz Cheney will be remembered as a heroine who ensured that it could. And Cassidy Hutchinson will deserve a place of honor for showing a party of cowards what courage looks like.
The usual suspects chimed in as well. MSNBC contributor and faux conservative Tim Miller marveled how Hutchinson “overcame all of the self-serving rationalizations that prevented the powerful, whose manhoods she held in her palm, from stepping to the plate.” Miller also said Trump “attacked” a Secret Service officer.
Meanwhile, CNN contributor Amanda Carpenter blasted Republican leaders and wondered aloud why they aren’t as “patriotic as the young staffer they once ordered around.” Bill Kristol, who wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked him in the belly, described Hutchinson as “a young woman telling the truth when her elders have avoided doing so.”
You get the drift.
But a funny thing happened as NeverTrump furiously penned five-star reviews for the supporting actress in the latest January 6 melodrama: Hutchinson’s credibility unraveled.
As to her most explosive testimony—an altercation inside the presidential limousine that prompted a conversation between Hutchinson, the head of Trump’s security detail, and the deputy chief of staff in the White House on the afternoon of January 6—officials pushed back immediately. NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander tweeted a few hours after her testimony ended that “a source close to the Secret Service says both men dispute Trump grabbed the steering wheel or assaulted an agent,” and both offered to testify under oath.
Politico reported on Wednesday that the January 6 select committee did not reach out to the Secret Service in an attempt to verify Hutchinson’s account prior to the hearing. An agency spokesman told Politico, “we have and will continue to make any member of the Secret Service available” to the committee.
It also appears that a note displayed during the hearing did not belong to Hutchinson, as she claimed, but to a top White House lawyer. “The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” Herschmann’s spokesman told ABC News. “All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. Herschmann.”
And it’s unclear whether a conversation between Hutchinson and Pat Cipollone, Trump’s White House counsel, could have taken place on the morning of January 6. “Multiple sources including one who was at the WH on Jan 6 tell me Cipollone was not there in the am when Hutchinson testified she spoke with him,” Jack Posobiec tweeted on Wednesday evening. “J6 Cmtes is aware of this discrepancy & are ignoring media inquiries about it. Seems she made up the entire conversation.”
Since the committee subpoenaed Cipollone around the same time Posobiec posted his scoop, perhaps Cheney can clear the air on the discrepancy.
Meanwhile, NeverTrump is up to its old tricks: bashing Trump, berating his supporters, and cheering his latest nemeses who almost always end up as farcical as NeverTrumpers themselves. Some things never change.
And then there that…..ha ha ha ha ha
Having dealt with the staffer types during my time in Iraq, she looks like all of them. Like they were made in a Barbie factory, all the same at the end of the day with minor modifications to separate them.
The pedophiles at the lincoln project may have found their Ghislaine Maxwell.
And the people that still cannot, for some unknown reason, stop supporting/voting for the the same, tired Chamber of Commerce Assistant Democrats that have created this mess…..ie every person that voted for Kemp
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And the proponent of the evidence should be sanctioned and the offerer tossed out of court. You go get evidence not hearsay that you claim can be confirmed.
The democrats are still in the gutter with their sleeze and sluts.
“Hutchinson’s resume alone should establish her credibility,” the Examiner’s editorial board stated.
FIXED!
Mona Charen:
If this republic survives, Liz Cheney will be remembered as a heroine who ensured that it could.
And Cassidy Hutchinson will deserve a place of honor for showing a party of cowards what courage looks like.
Of course. That is how DC works. Every time you see some beautiful young thing male or female working in the front office at a level that takes civil servants 30 years to work up to, it's not a ressume but Daddy's precious beautiful boy or girl Jonathan or Alicia is graduating and needs a job to figure out what they want to do. And backs need scratching and the job pays at the top of federal salaries. And they come to work in suits or outfits daily that you could never afford as routine work clothing just on a top federal salary. And they are generally very nice and think they know a lot but never did a damned thing in their lives because daddy took care of them, and they are utterly worthless and probably will be so forever.
How to go from conservative hero to five letter word in a heartbeat.
They are all just into for money. Let them attack Trump.
Nope, David.
Draft Trump now to save the USA.
It goes to show just how desperate the Media-Dem Party and their allies in the GOP are when they seize upon such an outlandish tale as this woman spun.
Does anyone really believe that if all this happened, i.e., seizing the steering wheel, throwing his lunch, and having armed people at his rally, that we wouldn’t have heard about it endlessly over the last 18 months. The fact that it took that long to concoct this story and recruit someone to tell it on TV speaks volumes about the separation they are feeling.
The Democrat leaders and their fake news puppets are shameless liars - pure evil. But Democrat voters are, by and large, not evil - just gullible. Their crime is believing the lies they are told.
But I can actually sympathize with them - it’s hard to resist believing something when nearly every politician, every celebrity, every news pundit and every paid-off science professor is saying the same thing.
It’s hard to believe that so many powerful and influential people would be conspiring to lie. But they are.
I’ve known it for a long time, but I still have a hard time swallowing it.
The fact is, many of the people with that kind of power and influence did some bad things along the way to get that power - cut some corners - accepted some favors - looked the other way - and now they have to lie to cover up their wrongdoings. It doesn’t happen over night. They gradually weave a tangled web of half truths and omissions.
Then, when push comes to shove, and good people are trying to defend themselves or expose the truth - these powerful people find themselves more on the side of covering things up. It’s no longer in their best interest for the truth to come out.
Somehow, we have to wake up these naive voters to what’s going on - many are good people who just don’t want to believe that many people could be lying to them. They think it’s more likely we are wrong - conspiracy kooks.
I know a lot of Democrats like that. Last Tuesday, one asked me excitedly if I had watched the hearings. I said “Nah, I don’t watch fake news”. She called me a “typical hide-your-head-in-the-sand Republican”.
So, because I won’t listen to lies, I’m the one hiding my head in the sand. I’m the one in denial. I’m the one in an echo chamber. And she really believes I’m the one that’s in the dark - not her. That’s what we are up against.
“Their crime is believing the lies they are told.”
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No no, they are more than gullible. They don’t just idly believe the lies. They WANT the lies. I have seen this first hand with members of my family. They reject everything that doesn’t fit their political cosmology, and the seek out anything that does, without question, and with prejudice.
Thanks.
I love Julie Kelly articles.
Well, I guess your mileage may vary. Most of the Lefties I know are just gullible - they believe whatever the fake news tells them.
She is great isn't she?
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