Speaking during a deposition regarding the January 6 investigation and January 6 Committee, former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Swamp and Deep State’s handpicked prosecutor who went after President Donald Trump over J6, admitted that the key witness for the J6 Committee had essentially given hearsay of hearsay as testimony.
That witness is former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who let fly with a series of bizarre and since-discredited accusations about her former boss’s behavior on J6, claiming, amongst other things, that he had tried to “grab the wheel” of a Secret Service vehicle during the day’s unrest and head to the Capitol. The claim was debunked by Secret Service agents, yet is constantly repeated by leftist media organs.
Smith, during his deposition, admitted that Hutchinson had not been in a position to know from firsthand knowledge what actually transpired during the day’s events, and was instead giving testimony that amounted to her supposed memory of what she had supposedly heard others say.
In fact, when speaking to the House Judiciary Committee about the matter, Fox News Digital reports, the former special counsel noted that her witness was hearsay of the sort any good attorney would move to strike, saying, “If I were a defense attorney and Ms. Hutchinson were a witness, the first thing I would do was seek to preclude some of her testimony because it was hearsay, and I don’t have the full range of her testimony in front of me right now, but I do remember that that was a decent part of it.”
Continuing, he referenced her testimony about the steering wheel incident, noting that the FBI had actually interviewed the agents whose comments Hutchinson had based her explosive, ridiculous testimony on, and found different things from what she claimed happened. “We interviewed, I think, the people she talked to, and we also interviewed, if my recollection is correct, officers who were there, including the officer who was in the car,” Smith said.
Adding to that, he noted that what the Secret Service reported was that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol, not that he grabbed the wheel. He said, “And that officer, if my recollection is correct, and I want to make sure I’m right about this, said that President Trump was very angry and wanted to go to the Capitol, but the version of events that he explained was not the same as what Cassidy Hutchinson said she heard from somebody secondhand.”
For reference, Hutchinson claimed during her testimony that the president “said something to the effect of, ‘I’m the effing president, take me up to the Capitol now,’ to which [the Secret Service agent] responded, ‘Sir, we have to go back to the West Wing.’ The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel.”
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Further, he noted that she has essentially pushed hearsay of hearsay as her testimony, saying, “a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people and, as a result, that testimony may or may not be admissible, and it certainly wouldn’t be as powerful as firsthand testimony.”
Watch Smith’s testimony here:
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