Noted “Conservative” Legal Analyst Andy McCarthy of NRO and the Rest of the NeverTrump True Conservative All-Stars Go Balls-Deep on Madison Cornbread’s “He Lunged For the Wheel” Hoax

by Ace

Another absurd hoax pushed on us by the left, which NeverTrump/Conservative, Inc. humiliatingly fell for.
 
You know, the Smart Ones who are Nobel and Always Tell the Truth.
 

 
After all of Madison Cornbread’s third-hand hearsay “I heard it from Casey who heard it from Jace who heard it from Brandon” stories, and all the media’s armageddon-level promotion of the story, it turns out it was all just the latest RussiaGate-style hoax.

Secret Service lead and presidential driver are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did NOT grab steering wheel or lunge at agents to drive himself to Capitol on January 6Bobby Engel, the lead agent on Trump’s detail, and the presidential driver at the time are prepared to testify under oath to the committee that Hutchinson’s testimony is incorrect, according to multiple news outlets
 
‘I’m the effing president, take me to the Capitol now,’ Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows’ top aide, said Trump ordered

Peter Alexander
@PeterAlexanderNEW: @SecretService spox Anthony Gugliemi tells me the agents in Trump’s presidential SUV are “available to testify under oath, responding to [Hutchinson’s] new allegations.” (1/2)
 
A source close to the Secret Service says both men dispute Trump grabbed the steering wheel or assaulted an agent. They do not deny that Trump was irate and demanded they drive to the Capitol. (2/2)

Irate that his driver and bodyguards were refusing a direct order and were essentially kidnapping him? Yeah, I can see that.
 
The important thing is that these men could have been asked about this before Madison Cornbread was put on stage to relay her false story.
 
In fact, they almost certainly were asked about this. From AllahPundit’s own humiliating climbdown:

I’ll leave you with Jake Tapper grilling committee member Jamie Raskin this afternoon about Hutchinson’s SUV story. Did you corroborate it with other witnesses, Tapper asks? Raskin is evasive. The best he can do is say that nothing he’s aware of contradicts what Hutchinson said, which is … not corroboration.

It’s almost as if he knows Madison Cornbread is offering a hearsay tale that none of the first-hand witnesses attest to, but they’re calling Madison Cornbread to the stand instead of them because they like her lies better than their truth.

I noted in this afternoon’s post that the January 6 committee has already interviewed Engel. Maggie Haberman reports that they interviewed Ornato too, many months ago. I assumed they had already corroborated the details of the SUV incident with the two of them and were having Hutchinson tell her story today in anticipation of Engel and Ornato telling it themselves in future testimony. Otherwise, why the hell would they have Hutchinson pass on a story second-hand on national television which might not bear out under scrutiny, causing it to blow up in their faces?

Um, they put Madison Cornbread on for the same reason crooked prosecutors put on a lot of hearsay witnesses — because the actual witness, the ones that the hearsay witness is supposedly repeating the words of, actually disputes and denies the words the hearsay witness attributes to him, and the crooked prosecutors prefer the story the hearsay witness tells. So they call the hearsay witness rather than the actual first-hand witness and just pretend the first-hand witness doesn’t exist and hope no one thinks to ask the first-hand witness.
 
You can get away with this in situations where the game is rigged and there is no opposing side to ask questions or call adverse witnesses. Like on the January 6 committee.

I assumed too much, it seems. And as others have noted, it *is* strange that this explosive account of what happened in the vehicle never once leaked in 17 months before today.

They put on the lie because they need to stoke public interest in this rehash of the second impeachment hearing and, like the media they’re playing to, they are perfectly fine running lies for clicks and ratings. If necessary, they will append a teeny-tiny “Clarification” to the story a year from now on page 548 of their report.
 
The Committee deliberately did not ask additional questions of additional witnesses about Madison Cornbread’s surprise revelations. They didn’t want to fact-check the story and find out it was false, so they chose to do no fact-checking at all.
 
(Except for the previous fact-checking they’d already done, in which not a single witness ever claimed anything like this every happened.)
 
And oh, Madison Cornbread also is accused of lying about making a contemporaneous note which she claims proves her current recollection:

Ryan Saavedra
@RealSaavedraBREAKING: Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann says that it is not true that Cassidy Hutchinson wrote the handwritten note that she testified on Tuesday that she wrote. He says it’s not true because he was the one who wrote the note.

But let’s believe the other things she says.
 

 
But AllahPundit still believes all their lies. Because he’s Smart!
 
And they’re members of his Class! Well, actually, they’re not members of his class; they’re members of a class several rungs higher than his. But he wants to join their class. He aspires to their class. He identifies with their class, so all their lies are truths!
 
All of the NeverTrumpers believe the lies of their Very Good Leftwing Media Friends and Twitter Cybersex Partners. They’re all in the same class together, or, like AllahPundit, aspire to be part of the same class.
 
Oh, and meanwhile, all the NeverTrumpers say:
 
wE’rE tOtAlLy AgAiNsT tHe TrIbAlIsM oF tHe UnDeRcLaSsEs!!!
 
And we should definitely believe the Crooked Prosecutors of the J6 committee, even though they’re resorting to such egregiously-underhanded tactics like this, putting on a hearsay witness you know is testifying to falsehoods while refusing to call the actual witnesses who would contradict her.
 
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Let’s believe all the things!
 

 
Andy McCarthy, for example, can’t wait to Vouch For the latest hoax his leftwing government functionary palz have cooked up:
 

 

 

 

 
As a commenter here is fond of saying: Andy McCarthy’s made his reputation by successfully prosecuting a blind sheikh who admitted that he was guilty.

Juneteenth Is Gay
@NolteNCLike Politico, NRO still has Andy McCarthy’s hoax at the top of its page….
 
love watching these outlets discredit themselves.
 
LOVE IT!

National Review is a disaster. It has been for years. It’s a joke.

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