January 6 Committee Avoids Asking Cipollone Questions That Could Implicate Hutchinson in Perjury

The January 6 Committee avoided asking former White House counsel Pat Cipollone questions about what star witness Cassidy Hutchinson said last month that she heard him say during the Capitol riot

• The Times also notes that committee aides are following a script and that they are selectively editing bits of his testimony to air them at future hearings and drive their particular narrative
  1. The January 6 Committee avoided asking former White House counsel Pat Cipollone questions about what star witness Cassidy Hutchinson said last month that she heard him say during the Capitol riot, the New York Times has reported.
  2. By failing to ask Cipollone if he actually said what Hutchinson, under oath, told the committee that he said, the committee avoided proving that Hutchinson committed perjury  while using her as leverage to force Cipollone to testify on video.
  3. Hutchinson's testimony, which was entirely based on hearsay, was treated as a major breakthrough for the committee because she appeared to implicate former President Donald Trump and key aides ; until her factual claims began to fall apart.
  4. By failing to ask Cipollone to confirm or deny the sensational statements attributed to him  such as that Trump officials could be “charged with every crime imaginable” by going to the Capitol during the riot  they avoided contradicting her.
  5. Cipollone had already cooperated with the committee before, while declining to testify under oath or to appear on video, citing concerns of executive privilege and attorney-client privilege.

   

 

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