In somewhat eyebrow-raising news, the same report that called out former Rep. Liz Cheney for what could have been criminal witness tampering and recommended that she be investigated and potentially prosecuted over the matter also fingered “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin as having had secret conversations with the same witness Cheney allegedly tampered with,
As background, that witness is Cassidy Hutchinson. Commenting on Cheney reaching out to her behind the scenes, without the knowledge or permission of her lawyer, the report said, “Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
The report also noted that Alyssa Farah Griffin was talking to Hutchinson behind the scenes. Doing so, it first set the scene, by providing, “The Select Committee began its investigation by interviewing hundreds of individuals it believed were connected to the events of January 6, 2021. Hutchinson was one of those individuals. Hutchinson could not afford an attorney, so she contacted two close allies of President Trump, Eric Herschmann and Alex Cannon, who secured attorney Stefan Passantino (“Passantino”) to represent Hutchinson at no cost to her. Initially, Hutchinson gave two under-oath testimonies, each lasting several hours.”
Continuing with that background on the matter, it provided, “Those two lengthy-yet-largely-insignificant interviews with Hutchinson brought her limited notoriety, with several news outlets attributing claims of Republican politicians seeking pardons and foreknowledge of violence leading up to January 6 to Hutchinson.”
Then it got to Griffin, saying, “Following her second interview, Hutchinson drastically switched her narrative and began testifying to a variety of unsubstantiated and uncorroborated claims that ultimately appeared in the Select Committee’s final report. It is not entirely clear why Hutchinson suddenly altered her testimony, but the Subcommittee has uncovered evidence of secret conversations between Hutchinson, former White House employee Alyssa Farah Griffin (“Farah Griffin”), and, troublingly, conversations between Hutchinson and Representative Cheney without the knowledge of Hutchinson’s attorney.”
The report then connected Griffin to Cheney, saying, “Alyssa Farah Griffin Backchanneled with Vice Chair Liz Cheney to Help Hutchinson Change her Story.” Beginning that section of the report, the committee provided, “For nearly a month, Farah Griffin acted as an intermediary between Vice Chair Cheney and the Select Committee’s star witness, Hutchinson. As an intermediary, Farah Griffin helped coordinate Hutchinson’s third transcribed interview—without the knowledge of Hutchinson’s attorney, Stefan Passantino.”
It continued, further exposing the matter, “In a television panel with a member of the Select Committee— Representative Raskin—a year following the end of the Select Committee, Hutchinson freely stated that she had “backchanneled for a third interview without my former attorney’s knowledge at the time, with one of my good friends, Alyssa Farah Griffin.” At this time, Farah Griffin and Hutchinson discussed the optics of Hutchinson leaking “new information” to the press instead of testifying directly to the Select Committee.”
Then, the report alleged that Griffin had “colluded” with Hutchinson to “create a false story,” alleging, “And, building on that , Hutchinson’s messages indicate that she and Farah Griffin colluded to create a false story about why Hutchinson needed to do a third transcribed interview for the Select Committee to convince her attorney, Passantino.”
A bit later, connecting the matter back to Cheney, the report stated, “The Subcommittee was only able to obtain a limited number of text messages from Hutchinson and Farah Griffin, but Representative Cheney’s influence on Hutchinson is apparent from that point forward by her dramatic change in testimony and eventual claims against President Trump using second- and thirdhand accounts. For example, Hutchinson claimed that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato (“Ornato”) told her that Trump lunged towards the driver of his car after Trump’s request to go to the Capitol was denied. This story has never been corroborated and was directly refuted by both United States Secret Service (“USSS”) agents in the vehicle with President Trump that day, and Ornato himself.”
Watch Griffin comment on the matter here:
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