🚨 “THE STAR WITNESS SHAM”: Jim Jordan Shreds Jack Smith Over Cassidy Hutchinson’s Discredited Stories 🚨

Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) just delivered a “masterful” five-minute dismantling of the January 6 Committee’s narrative, using former special counsel Jack Smith’s own testimony to expose the lengths the left went to “get Trump” at all costs. During today’s high-stakes hearing, Jordan pinned Smith down on the “staged and choreographed” testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson.

The “Steering Wheel” Concoction 🏎️💨

Smith admitted under oath that Hutchinson’s famous claim—that President Trump lunged for the steering wheel of the presidential SUV—was merely “secondhand hearsay” she heard from someone else.

Jordan reminded the committee that the actual Secret Service agents in the car—Bobby Engel and Tony Ornato—testified under oath that the incident did not happen and they first heard the story during Hutchinson’s primetime hearing.

Smith admitted that if he were a defense attorney, he would have moved to preclude her testimony because it was legally inadmissible hearsay.

From hearing:

Representative Jim Jordan:
Thank you, and Mr. Chairman, I yield back to you.

Mr. Smith, is Cassidy Hutchinson a liar? She was their star witness, January 6 Committee, their star witness in one of those staged and choreographed hearings they paid the former president of ABC News to put together. She was in fact the only witness at this special primetime hearing, Tuesday June 28, 2022, 8 o’clock in the evening. And she told some stories. I mean, these were some stories. She talked about the President lunged across the back seat, grabbed the steering wheel, tried to drive the car to the Capitol. And I just want to know, you think she was lying?

Mr. Smith:
Chairman Jordan, my assessment of that particular issue is that with respect to the testimony about someone lunging… the President lunging towards the driver, my recollection of her testimony about that is that it was secondhand. She said she’d heard that from somebody.

Representative Jim Jordan:
You familiar with the name Tony Ornato?

Mr. Smith:
I’m sorry?

Representative Jim Jordan:
You familiar with the name Tony Ornato?

Mr. Smith:
Yes.

Representative Jim Jordan:
White House Deputy Chief of Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, right? You remember what he said about it?

Mr. Smith:
As I sit here right now, I do not.

Representative Jim Jordan:
Yeah, he said it didn’t happen. How about Bobby Engel? You familiar with that name?

Mr. Smith:
Yes, I am.

Representative Jim Jordan:
Secret Service agent who was actually in the car that day. You know what he said? He said it didn’t happen. And they both said the first time they ever heard this story was when Ms. Hutchinson testified in the primetime hearing as their star witness of the January 6 Committee. By the way, did you ever confirm her testimony about this particular incident?

Mr. Smith:
We conducted, as I said before, our own independent investigation of all aspects of the case that we thought was relevant. We… attorneys from my office—

Representative Jim Jordan:
Did you ever confirm it? That’s a simple question.

Mr. Smith:
We interviewed her, I should say attorneys in my office—

Representative Jim Jordan:
Did you ever confirm the President leaping across the seat, grabbing the steering wheel, this whole concoction she brought up in the January 6 hearing. Did you ever confirm that?

Mr. Smith:
We interviewed another firsthand witness who was in the car, who did not confirm that that had happened, but also—

Representative Jim Jordan:
In your deposition to the committee last month, Mr. Smith, you said this: “My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay.” You remember making that statement to us last month in the deposition?

Mr. Smith:
I did, and I was referring particularly to what we’re talking about now.

Representative Jim Jordan:
Yeah. And you also said Ms. Hutchinson, regarding this particular claim, was a second or even third-hand witness. We asked you, if you were a defense attorney, how would you handle cross-examining her if she was on the witness stand? And you said, “If I were a defense attorney and Ms. Hutchinson were a witness, the first thing I would do was seek to preclude her testimony because it was hearsay.” You remember saying all that?

Mr. Smith:
Yes, that’s correct, sir.

Representative Jim Jordan:
That’s correct, right? Were you going to put her on the witness stand if you ever got to trial?

Mr. Smith:
We had not made final determinations as to who we were going to call as a witness. We had a large—

Representative Jim Jordan:
You were still considering her?

Mr. Smith:
We had a large choice of witnesses in this case.

Representative Jim Jordan:
Are you familiar with what Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis said in their book? They did this book, 300-some pages book on, chronicling the whole investigation of the Justice Department. And here’s what they said on page 310. They said, “Jack Smith had wondered whether some of Hutchinson’s claims might be relied upon at trial. Still, at one point, Smith told the elections team he wasn’t ready to give up on Hutchinson’s account. Ultimately, however, Trump administration officials uniformly, fiercely disputed her accounts under oath. Prosecutors on your team told Smith they wouldn’t want to use Hutchinson as a witness in court, and Smith agreed.”

Are Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis who wrote this, are they lying?

Mr. Smith:
My recollection is that I certainly had not made any final determinations about who we were going to call—

Representative Jim Jordan:
And that’s the point. That is the point. The fact that they used her in a primetime hearing and you won’t rule out using her or didn’t rule out using her, putting her on the witness stand when everybody knows she wasn’t telling the truth, that says it all. That’s the degree the left and Democrats were willing to go to get President Trump—putting on the witness stand someone everybody knows is making it up. Everybody knows that. And you were willing to—By the way, you know how many times Cassidy Hutchinson was mentioned in their report, the January 6 report? Any idea, Mr. Smith?

Mr. Smith:
I do not.

Representative Jim Jordan:
185 times. Someone that the whole country knows wasn’t telling the truth, and you were still considering putting her on the witness stand because you had to get President Trump. And everybody can see that.

We better take a recess for votes. We will resume as soon as votes are over, back here 10 minutes after. Mr. Smith, you guys can—