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Enough about COVID-19. Ever since Nancy Pelosi’s phony January 6 committee premiered its made-for-TV hearings, we’ve known that a much more serious health risk is posed by Trump Derangement Syndrome. We now have scientific proof that TDS is a brain-eating disease.

How do we know? Well, it turns out that when enough brain cells have been consumed by the fiery hatred of Donald Trump, it’s impossible to tell actual evidence from essentially worthless, uncorroborated hearsay and even outright lying. To the patient with this advanced level of brain damage, the only thing that gives such “evidence” value is its ability to put Trump in a bad light and damage his political viability as we careen towards 2024.

The testimony of a former aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about events she said took place on January 6 is perhaps the ultimate example of this. We’ve learned that this “emergency” meeting to quickly make public some fast-breaking testimony was nothing of the sort. It was a lie to create a sense of urgency around the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson. Why, it was so important, this kangaroo court had to change its plan for a two-week hiatus and hop to it! But by then, they’d already completed four video interviews with her.

So they’d had plenty of time to corroborate her hearsay testimony with the Secret Service but had never reached out. They still could’ve done it during their so-called hiatus. But perhaps they sensed it might spoil a good thing. Wouldn’t want to get in the way of a great anti-Trump story! (Like that fake “pee tape” yarn --- how long were they able to keep THAT going?)

The fact that the committee failed to reach out to the Secret Service has been reported by POLITICO, not exactly a bastion of support for Trump.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/jan-6-hutchinson-secret-service-00043164

The leadership behind the J6 committee consists mostly of people with fancy law degrees and lots of experience with hearings and rules of evidence. The hypothesis that they’ve lost billions of brain cells due to TDS explains why they didn’t realize how quickly Hutchinson’s testimony would be demolished by people with firsthand knowledge, and how much that would discredit their entire operation.

No, they were so thrilled with her testimony that afterwards, Liz Cheney gave her a hug. 
Cheney appears to be suffering from the most serious case of TDS to date –- call it “long TDS” –- with most of her higher brain function destroyed.  Another symptom:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/liz-cheney-republicans-loyal-trump-constitution

Sadly, many in the media are also infected with some form of “long TDS” and are unable to recognize and reject hearsay, either, if it appears to work against Donald Trump. They are so brain-damaged that they report this as actual evidence. They also ignore the complete lack of cross-examination.

As POLITICO reported, attorneys for Hutchinson said Wednesday she stands by “all of the testimony.” But the Secret Service said it would have been a simple matter for committee members to access any documents or witnesses they’d thought might be relevant. They just didn’t do it.

One especially puzzling part of Hutchinson’s testimony is that she claimed to have written a particular note herself, when White House attorney Eric Herschmann says he wrote it. POLITICO and other news outlets are downplaying the significance of this apparent lie, saying it doesn’t matter who wrote the note, as the important thing is that it shows Trump was being advised to immediately instruct supporters to leave the Capitol. They’re failing to ask why the committee chose to call Hutchinson as a witness and not Herschmann. None of the committee’s choices are accidental; there must be some reason why they wanted the note in evidence but not Herschmann as a witness. They preferred Hutchinson on-camera, even if she had to misrepresent the note as hers. We’d like to know why.

Also, Mark Meadows, Hutchinson’s boss at the time, denies that he requested a pardon from Trump over the events of January 6, as Hutchinson testified he did. Here’s an excellent take:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/06/29/mark-meadows-my-aide-is-lying-about-me-requesting-a-pardon-over-january-6-n2609552

Megyn Kelly, no fan of Trump, thinks Trump “embarrassed himself” with his reaction to the outcome of the election, but even so, she says a “first-year law student” could drive a truck through the holes in Hutchinson’s testimony. Actually, we think any reasoned person should be able to do it, no law school necessary.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2022/06/29/megyn-kelly-explains-why-a-first-year-law-student-could-have-driven-a-truck-through-holes-in-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony/

That touch of TDS Kelly experienced –- presumably when he made a less-than-gentlemanly remark about her during his presidential campaign –- was perhaps just enough to inoculate her against the more serious and incapacitating form. So even though she still has doubts about Trump’s “temperament,” she’s able to think coherently and objectively about the workings of this committee.

Her video is a must-watch, and reiterates quite bluntly what we’ve been saying. “This committee has one goal and only one goal,” she says. “Stop Donald Trump from running again in 2024. They’re worried he could win. They absolutely loathe him. And they will do what it takes to stop his political resurrection.”

She debunks these hearings in short order, particularly the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson. She notes all the paraphrases of stories Hutchinson heard secondhand and even features a montage of her using the frequent qualifier “something to the effect of.”

This deficiency obviously didn’t matter to the committee. It “cloaks itself in sanctimony,” Kelly said, “purporting to be a fair-minded, down-the-middle finder of fact, just looking to get to the truth of January 6. IT’S A LIE. And they prove every time they get together that it’s a lie.”

Note: Kelly personally has a view different from mine on Trump’s feelings about the violence at the Capitol; her take-away is that he approved of it. Perhaps some residual mild TDS infection is still lurking in some of her cells, as after chickenpox. She’s to be commended for functioning so well in spite of this.

Kelly also does not mention the denial from Tony Ornato that he had the conversation with Hutchinson described by her in testimony, about Trump attacking Secret Service agents and grabbing the steering wheel. That might have been reported after she made this video, but she doesn’t need it to debunk the hearing.

What she demonstrates in this video is how the testimony might have gone if there'd been any cross-examination. And let me tell you, Megyn would have been a great one to do it. She has got skills.

“I actually think I’m in a unique spot on this front,” she concludes. “I feel no need to defend Trump or his character, as this audience knows. But I know a sham trial when I see one. And this is not justice, it is not fair, and it is not to be trusted.”

Further reading:

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/06/28/j6-committee-just-kneecapped-themselves-over-evidence-in-cassidy-hutchinsons-testimony-n585882

https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/29/january-6-committee-razors-edge-andrew-mccarthy/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/secret-service-wasnt-contacted-by-jan-6-committee-before-hutchinson-testimony

Andrew C. McCarthy sees this as less of a problem with the witness’s hearsay testimony than it is with the committee’s failure to question and cross-examine.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-closer-look-at-the-hearsay-claims-surrounding-hutchinsons-trump-testimony/

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  • l.f. dale

    06/30/2022 07:31 PM

    sham committee, just d-rats circle jerking themselves, not a trial not even close

  • Leslie Keller

    06/30/2022 06:32 PM

    One thing people like Megan Kelly miss is that President Trump believed that the election was stolen not just by the democrats but by foreign powers. As President he would see it as his duty to save the country from our enemies. I recommend reading Patrick Bryne’s book “ Deep Rig”. He was after one of the people who brought the evidence of foreign hacking to President Trump.

  • William Wood

    06/30/2022 05:43 PM

    I think Ms Kelly TDS exacerbated by NBC’s loose with the Truth Syndrome…. As for Donald Trump, his only supporter in the media, was himself. He should be excused, if his rhetoric offends your sensibility. The opposition was worse! Much Worse, and not criticized, by fact checkers…

  • Donald Tygart

    06/30/2022 05:06 PM

    How will Leahy's fall and broken hip (this morning) relate? I was sorry to hear about it - and do wish him and his family well. But does this cut the 50 - 50 tie?

  • Patrick Barrett

    06/30/2022 05:01 PM

    If even children can tell this is all fake, then who the heck, can tell them to shut down and shut up? who is in charge here? Can we get a Constitution commission that can shut Liers up that are stepping on our Constitution. Someone has to be in charge. the SCOTUS is telling the Executive to stop breaking the Constitution! Can they stop these A-holes from having an illegal, unconstitutional burning Trump at the stake?

  • Janet Russ

    06/30/2022 04:14 PM

    One thing about people going bonkers over Trump being real with showing emotion…emotions are neither good nor bad in and of themselves. It is the action one takes in reaction to emotions that can be good or bad. I personally prefer to see and know people’s real emotions over having to stomach all the lies that are politically correctness. If you can’t be real you shouldn’t be at all.

  • Jane Serrano

    06/30/2022 03:58 PM

    I don’t understand how Kathy Hutchinson can lie under oath, with no consequences. All it would take is the testimony of the people involved, stating that she was lying. How many lies can the Democratic Party get away with?
    If this country survives this administration, it will be a miracle!

  • Linda

    06/30/2022 03:53 PM

    About the Supreme Court ruling regarding remain in Mexico.
    The problem is “words.” Too many twisted words and meanings. We have an immigration problem equaling more invasion than immigration, and the corrupted supreme court judges care more about words than protecting the law-abiding tax paying American.

  • Someolboy

    06/30/2022 01:01 PM

    Pelosi and her (illegal select only people who support destroying Trump), committee are all tyrants, enemies of the state and traitors as evidenced by their endeavours. Pelosi needs to be tried for conspiracy to undermine the US Government, investigated for what she knew and when she knew it prior to the 2020 election. From recorded published statements she made prior to the election, she already knew what the election outcome would be. I don’t know why anybody has caught on to this?

  • Normas Holmes

    06/30/2022 12:25 PM

    You cannot drive the US ship of state in reverse! Mike Pompaeo released hus first video yesterdsy in South Carolina in support if freedom of religion and the right to pray! i support him! Pass on the torch!

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