Remember that “star witness” who appeared before the hopelessly biased J6 Committee, Cassidy Hutchinson, a senior aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during Trump's first term?
She made a number of wild claims in her testimony in front of what was officially called “The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,” including the highly dubious allegation that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his armored car from a Secret Service agent. According to Hutchinson, the president demanded to be taken back to the Capitol, where his supporters were gathering.
Small problem: she had only heard the story second-hand — and the driver said it never happened.
Now, the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Hutchinson for perjury. This is according to The New York Times, which can barely disguise its disdain in its slanted coverage:
The Justice Department has assigned its civil rights division to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who outraged President Trump four years ago after her testimony before Congress implicated him in the violence that erupted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The DOJ opened an investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) April 8, 2026
Jack Smith used this hearsay to go after POTUS Trump!
Cassidy claims she heard Trump grabbed the steering wheel of the beast in rage.
We have texts of her and Liz Cheney plotting.
Lock them up! pic.twitter.com/3rC9oLUcwj
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It Didn't Happen: Secret Service Driver Says Trump 'Never Grabbed the Steering Wheel' on Jan. 6
The January 6 Committee was a clown show with the hapless Rep. Bennie Johnson (MS-02) serving as chairman and the melodramatic, supposedly Republican former Reps. Liz Cheney (WY-AL) and Adam Kinzinger (IL-16) being the only GOP representatives. Kinzinger, knowing voters would reject him, retired in 2021, while Cheney got resoundingly defeated in the primary of her 2022 reelection bid.
Chief of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights division Harmeet Dhillon, who, as we’ve reported, is under consideration for a promotion to Associate Attorney General, will reportedly take the reins of the investigation:
In an unorthodox move, leaders at the Justice Department did not offer [United States Attorney for the District of Columbia] Ms. [Jeanine] Pirro a chance to open an investigation into Ms. Hutchinson, but instead gave the case directly to Harmeet Dhillon, who runs the civil rights division, according to three of the people familiar with the matter. Ms. Dhillon, another Trump loyalist, has emerged as an effective advocate for the administration’s agenda, particularly as the department has targeted higher education institutions that the White House perceives as being “too woke.”
Note that the Times story is littered with words like “unusual” and “unorthodox,” as if the nation’s voters elected Trump as president because they were so happy with the way things were normally done in The Swamp.
🚨INVESTIGATION🚨
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) April 8, 2026
The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who testified against Donald Trump in June 2022.
Her testimony alleged that Trump encouraged the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and lunged at a… pic.twitter.com/YRF2zi8sXu
Her testimony alleged that Trump encouraged the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and lunged at a Secret Service agent.
The probe stems from a congressional referral accusing Hutchinson of lying to the January 6 committee.
The J6 Committee was a disgrace, and if anyone is held accountable, that would be a good thing in my book. I'd rather it were Cheney's slithery maneuverings that were being investigated, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony didn’t pass the smell test, and she should answer for it.
Editor’s Note: The endless lawfare against Donald Trump was emblematic of the banana republic Biden regime.
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