One of the most dramatic claims from the January 6 Committee just quietly fell apart, and this time it came straight from the man Democrats trusted to put President Trump behind bars.
Former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Biden Justice Department’s handpicked prosecutor, admitted during a closed door deposition that star January 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson lacked firsthand knowledge to back up her most sensational claims. That admission alone should make every American rewatch those made for TV hearings with a very different lens.
Hutchinson became a media darling in 2022 after testifying before the January 6 Committee, which was run more like a Hollywood production than a serious fact finding body. Her most infamous allegation was that President Trump tried to “grab the wheel” of a Secret Service vehicle and force his way to the Capitol. The story was breathlessly repeated across cable news and social media, despite being immediately disputed by multiple Secret Service agents.
This week, the House Judiciary Committee released the transcript of Smith’s eight hour deposition, and buried inside it was the truth Democrats never wanted highlighted. Smith admitted that Hutchinson’s testimony was largely secondhand and even thirdhand hearsay. In plain English, she was repeating stories she claimed to have heard from others, not things she personally witnessed.
Smith was blunt. He said that if he were a defense attorney, he would try to block portions of Hutchinson’s testimony from being admitted at trial because hearsay is weak, unreliable, and often inadmissible. That is not conservative spin. That is a prosecutor explaining basic courtroom reality.
On the vehicle incident specifically, Smith acknowledged that his team interviewed the Secret Service officer who was actually present in the presidential vehicle. That officer confirmed President Trump was angry and wanted to go to the Capitol, but flatly contradicted Hutchinson’s version of events. The so called steering wheel grab simply did not happen the way the committee portrayed it.
Smith also cast doubt on Hutchinson’s claim that President Trump knew rally attendees were armed. According to Smith, other witnesses offered very different accounts, further undermining her credibility. Again, the issue was not emotion or tone, but proximity. Hutchinson was not there. She was relaying information filtered through others.
And yet this hearsay was treated as gospel by the January 6 Committee, amplified by friendly media, and used to justify years of investigations, prosecutions, and political theater aimed squarely at President Trump.
House Republicans are now forming their own January 6 Committee and are expected to interview Hutchinson directly. That should be uncomfortable for anyone who built a narrative around testimony that even the special counsel admits would be shaky in a real courtroom.
The bigger takeaway is unavoidable. The most explosive moments of the January 6 hearings were built on claims that never met basic evidentiary standards. That is not justice. That is storytelling. And now, thanks to Jack Smith’s own words, the script has finally been exposed.
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