DOJ Investigating Jan 6th Panel Witness
The Real News Feed homepage has 60 new headlines every 24 hours - click here to see it.
The Department of Justice opened a probe into Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide and January 6th committee witness.
It is being led by the DOJ’s civil rights division.
Congressman Barry Loudermilk previously claimed she lied during her testimony and sent the DOJ a criminal referral.
The Department of Justice has opened a probe into a glamorous former White House aide who turned on President Donald Trump after the January 6 Capitol riot.
Cassidy Hutchinson, 29, who implicated Trump with her testimony before congressional January 6 investigators, is the subject of a DOJ investigation, four sources familiar with the matter told the New York Times.
…
The investigation is being led by the DOJ’s civil rights division, headed by Trump ally Harmeet Dhillon – a department that typically focuses on race, sex, age, religion and other forms of illegal discrimination.
Congressman Barry Loudermilk, who chairs House Republicans’ January 6 Committee, sent the DOJ a criminal referral last month urging it to investigate Hutchinson.
During her testimony, Hutchinson claimed that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol that day and that he grabbed for the steering wheel of the SUV.
The man she claimed told her the story disputed this.
The Washington Times reported:
Ms. Hutchinson’s most explosive testimony was that Mr. Trump tried to go to the Capitol with his supporters that day, and was furious to have been derailed. She wasn’t present in the SUV but said she was told by a White House official that the president grabbed for the steering wheel and even grabbed an agent’s throat.
But the man she said told her that story, Anthony Ornato, denied that version of events, as did Bobby Engel, the head of Mr. Trump’s security detail that day.
Special counsel Jack Smith told Congress earlier this year that his investigation tried to substantiate Ms. Hutchinson’s claims but she only had distant knowledge of the incident. He also said his investigation spoke to a witness who disputed her version of events.
“My recollection of her testimony about that was that it was secondhand,” he told the House Judiciary Committee in January.
