Former President Donald Trump downplayed his connection to her.
What happened: Republicans don't seem to have any concrete answers to former Trump White House top aide's compelling testimony about the lead up and events of Jan. 6 attack. They're not pushing back on the core facts of her first-hand recollections of those events.
Former President Donald Trump downplayed his connection to the aideon his social media site, Truth Social, writing "I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is other than I heard very negative things about her."
But a former senior Trump press official said such claims miss the mark too.
Anyone downplaying Cassidy Hutchinson’s role or her access in the West Wing either doesn’t understand how the Trump WH worked or is attempting to discredit her because they’re scared of how damning this testimony is.
— Sarah Matthews (@SarahAMatthews1) June 28, 2022
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called her testimony compelling and predicted it would lead to further testimony from senior officials.
My guess is that before this is over, we will be hearing testimony from Ornato, Engle, and Meadows.
This is explosive stuff. If Cassidy is making this up, they will need to say that. If she isn't they will have to corroborate.
I know her. I don't think she is lying.
— Mick Mulvaney (@MickMulvaney) June 28, 2022
The Twitter account of the House Judiciary Republicans downplayed her revelations.
That was their star witness? Ok then.
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 28, 2022
Another tweet from the account sought to remind followers of the current economic situation in the country during the surprise hearing.
Gas is $5 per gallon.
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) June 28, 2022
We'll wait to see how senior Republican figures, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy respond to the testimony.
Stick with our team: They're all over the testimony presented from this surprise hearing.
"What Hutchinson revealed is something we all knew...Every person around Trump saw [it]...This is why everyone I interviewed for my book was so filled with hatred for Never Trumpers...They knew we were right. They were unwilling to do anything about it."https://t.co/JEcPrG2Qi7
In Colorado's Senate race, abortion was a dominant issue.
GOP primary winner Joe O'Dea backs a ban on late term abortions but said the decision earlier should be between "a woman and her God." He will face Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in November. https://t.co/aIUA3tdmH2pic.twitter.com/KAxSsVipb5
Colorado primary voters roundly rejected the most vocal election deniers tonight. Yes, Boebert won, but she’s in a red district, has a ton of cash and faced an opponent who didn’t mount too strong a campaign. At the statewide level, hardcore Trumpism remains unpopular here.
Republican candidates who echoed former President Trump's false claims of a stolen presidency were defeated in high-profile nominating contests in Colorado ahead of November's midterm elections, according to Edison Research projections https://t.co/AHFU67BD2Tpic.twitter.com/scGYbQI5U2
Republican primary voters in Colorado resoundingly rejected Donald Trump's brand of politics Tuesday, choosing more moderate nominees for key offices over a group of candidates that had embraced the former President's lies about election fraud. https://t.co/kFVOnrIJdG
Don’t worry if you can’t remember all of the investigations into Scott Pruitt’s legal and ethical misdeeds during his tenure at the Trump EPA. No one can. Not even DOJ or the Democratic Congress. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/8VSdGYaiKV
MAGA candidate for NV Governor Joey Gilbert lost his primary yesterday by 10 points. Today he went on Roger Stone’s show on Lindell TV to say he knows he won, but was there was election fraud. pic.twitter.com/zIb8SA1ADy
In a speech, Representative Liz Cheney described Donald Trump as a threat to the republic who had “gone to war with the rule of law,” adding that GOP leaders had “made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.” https://t.co/LxvTL6DE0t
Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican of Wyoming, pressed her party to denounce former Donald Trump’s lies and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution,” she said. https://t.co/dC7ZqM5yTupic.twitter.com/ShA1CmdMar
So much so that two GOP members of the state board, who have sided with Democrats in voting against Heritage Classical Academy, were beaten in a primary after the family of Heritage’s board chairman donated $250,000 to their opponents. https://t.co/i36qnEHqD2
Whenever you see a lot of people being like "why does The New York Times keep covering this story that I find annoying?" it's good to check the trending stories list, because the answer is usually "the stories are popular." pic.twitter.com/5bLTxlkrYL
Awesome article. Isn’t it ironic that Stop the steal guys, Russian connected guys , and anti-vax/ masks guys overlap so much. There is literally no reason for all these things to have ideological alignment and yet they do. Russia has been planting seeds for Civil War/chaos!
Can FL Gov. Ron DeSantis "Out-Trump" Trump? @danabrams looks into whether the potential Republican presidential primary contender could really go toe-to-toe with the King of MAGA--and come out on top. pic.twitter.com/gLAVuPNsf5
SCOOP: Herschel Walker lied about his secret kids to his campaign. He lost his staff's trust long ago, an adviser said, and the campaign is at the mercy of a volatile, stunningly unprepared candidate, unable to control him, hiding chaos. Me @thedailybeasthttps://t.co/mb1qwoylug
— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@SollenbergerRC) July 7, 2022
The case of Herschel Walker has infuriated me. Because the guy is clearly not playing with a full deck. And the U.S. Senate is an important body. And the Republican Party and the Republican media have pretended that the guy is within normal parameters.
I don't expect every senator to be a Daniel Webster or a Henry Clay. Or even a Hubert Humphrey or a Howard Baker. But there ought to be a minimum amount of respect for that body. And the nomination of Herschel Walker -- toward whom I harbor zero ill will -- is insulting.
Look up his statements on COVID-19. Or on evolution, say. For a major party to put him forward for the U.S. Senate is just disgraceful. It spits in the face of our system. It is LOL, nothing-matters, end-of-the-republic stuff. Please. Stop it.
One of his known sons is becoming quite the Konservativ Kardashian
I just spent a week in Florida from California. You don’t realize how horrible, disgusting, and anti-American blue states are until you spend time in free red states.
I was walking out of Starbucks and a barista said to me, “HAPPY PRIDE.”
Oh no sir. I’m not part of that rainbow group who walks around the streets with no clothes on, puts on drag queen shows for kids, and teaches gender theory to kindergartners. Happy Friday to you.
Retweet - "Jan6 attack on Capitol, Congress and certifying presidential vote not as important as summer riots and expensive gas" - aka, just move on, nothing to see here.
Fact is J6 was a bad day. Everyone knows it, but it’s two years latter for hecks sake, it wasn’t 9/11 nor the summer riots. Whatever, keep posting this boring ass shit TV while people can’t afford gas. See you assholes in November!
“Do you really have to keep saying how great of a fucking golfer he is?” McCain would ask Graham, according to people who were around them both during McCain’s final months.
via @MarkLeibovichhttps://t.co/2mBfw2Asoy
aha, when it really matters electorally and isn't just inconsequential red meat for culture warriors, DeSantis is quiet as a church mouse
Governor Ron DeSantis’s hesitance to detail his plans for abortion policy reflects the new and, in some states, difficult political terrain for Republicans in the post-Roe v. Wade era. https://t.co/VYz8YyukP3
Far from consolidating his support, the former president appears weakened in his party, especially with younger and college-educated Republicans. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is the most popular alternative.
By Michael C. Bender @ NYTimes.com, July 12
As Donald J. Trump weighs whether to open an unusually early White House campaign, a New York Times/Siena College poll shows that his post-presidential quest to consolidate his support within the Republican Party has instead left him weakened, with nearly half the party’s primary voters seeking someone different for president in 2024 and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination.
By focusing on political payback inside his party instead of tending to wounds opened by his alarming attempts to cling to power after his 2020 defeat, Mr. Trump appears to have only deepened fault lines among Republicans during his yearlong revenge tour. A clear majority of primary voters under 35 years old, 64 percent, as well as 65 percent of those with at least a college degree — a leading indicator of political preferences inside the donor class — told pollsters they would vote against Mr. Trump in a presidential primary.
Mr. Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, appears to have contributed to the decline in his standing, including among a small but important segment of Republicans who could form the base of his opposition in a potential primary contest. While 75 percent of primary voters said Mr. Trump was “just exercising his right to contest the election,” nearly one in five said he “went so far that he threatened American democracy.”
Overall, Mr. Trump maintains his primacy in the party: In a hypothetical matchup against five other potential Republican presidential rivals, 49 percent of primary voters said they would support him for a third nomination.
Republican Voters on Their Preferred Candidate for President
If the Republican 2024 presidential primary were held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were
btw what Biden just said (found retweeted by Maggie Haberman)
Israel Channel 12 asked Biden if he was predicting a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024?: Biden replied: "I'm not predicting, but I would not be disappointed."
"Trump's going to find himself further and further isolated." "I don't think he's going to be in the picture. He's fallen so far." "We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn't have, we shouldn't have followed him." - Nikki Haleyhttps://t.co/6aLwQxKeIj
Joe Rogan escalated his one-sided feud with Donald Trump on Monday, suggesting during his podcast that the former president’s outsized energy derives from Adderall: “He’s a man baby.” https://t.co/UK3pxKD0cq
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says former President Trump called him last week in another push to decertify Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential results after the WI Supreme Court ruling on absentee ballot drop boxes. Shortly after, Vos says, Trump posted on social media calling him a RINO pic.twitter.com/rLFtYtHlh6
"It's very consistent," Vos said. "He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin. I explained it's not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion, and then he put out the tweet."
Thing is, how can he effect much using Truth Social as a tool? There it's just preaching to a choir that wants the GOP to be the Trump party, so no minds are changed. He has the limited vision of a narcissist.
The “NO” votes: Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop, Lauren Boebert, Madison Cawthorn, Ben Cline, Michael Cloud, Warren Davidson, Matt Gaetz, Bob Good, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Morgan Griffith, Thomas Massie, Tom McClintock, Mary Miller, Ralph Norman, Matt Rosendale, Chip Roy & Jeff Van Drew.
The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act in a vote of 267 to 157 on Tuesday, a bill that will codify same-sex marriage nationwide in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade last month. The legislation would also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law signed by former president Bill Clinton that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The legislation faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where at least 10 Republicans would need to join with Democrats to overcome the filibuster, CNN reports.
Decade ago Democratic VP got ridiculed for gaffe saying he supported gay marriage - which Rs had used as not-so-secret wedge issue against Ds.
Today, Dems used gay marriage to divide Rs, splintering them on the issue.
Via @MariannaReports & @LACaldwellDChttps://t.co/dlN0wZVmFc
It was smart of Democrats to put a moderate, super-popular bill on the floor that got a bunch of GOP votes while exposing the extremism of the majority of the party.
Sure maybe he votes against the bill. Maybe this isn't the most progressive, enthusiastic endorsement. But good lord people, this is an elected representative from ALABAMA.
There’s no one better than @jonathanvswan, and this morning he goes deep inside the efforts to lay the groundwork not just for specific names for a 2025 administration, but to allow Trump to dismiss civil servants who stood in his way previously. https://t.co/51rcxAnhGK
^ This is actually a crucial piece to read if you care about the future of politics and policy.
It makes very clear which entities and people on the right have gone with a serious MAGA agenda, see Trumpism as an ideology and not the single narcissist most of us do. Head and shoulders above anything published on topic before. Follows "the money," not just talk. And well-written, easy to read. What's real clear is that a lot of conservative orgs and activists have seen a sea change. (May end up being something like the "Reagan revolution" was.) Also is surprisingly candid about which people Trump ended up hating...lots to chew on...
P.S. Some central beliefs stand out real clear: Isolationism on foreign policy; protectionism on economic policy; anti-new immigrant, even anti legal immigrant; and especially real serious about 'DRAINING THE SWAMP' and VOIDING THE DEEP STATE of Federal government. Much more serious about the latter than Grover Norquist, plans are being put down on paper on how to do things like get rid of the FBI and CIA and a lot of Pentagon brass, other Fed bureaucracies as one can imagine. And guess what, they seem to have a Supreme Court now that agrees that nearly everything should be left up to the states.
Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections was co-founded by Karl Rove, hotelier Steve Wynn and lawyer Bobby Burchfield
The group opposes courts intervening in state election laws
and has already filed briefs in court cases over new voting restrictions
Prominent Republicans including former U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday launched a new legal group they say is aimed at defending state legislatures’ right to set election laws.
The nonprofit group, Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, is also co-founded by longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove, hotel magnate and GOP donor Steve Wynn and attorney Bobby Burchfield, who last year resigned from the law firm King & Spalding.
Burchfield told Reuters Thursday that the group was created in response to expanding court fights over election laws. It has already filed two briefs in election law cases backing state legislatures' ability to change voting rules.
“We do not think the courts should be setting the rules for elections. We believe that’s the province of state legislatures,” Burchfield said.
He said the nonprofit is not a “foil” to Democratic lawyers like Marc Elias, who left law firm Perkins Coie last year to start his own practice regularly litigating over election laws.
The group is not affiliated with former President Donald Trump and does not support particular candidates, Burchfield said. He said the groups' members reject claims made by some other conservatives that the 2020 election is illegitimate due to mass voter fraud.
Elias on Thursday told Reuters he believes the new organization is "fundamentally about making voting harder and opposing voting rights." He said that the state laws the group defends are falsely premised on the idea that fraud is rampant in U.S. elections.
One of the group's briefs, filed in June before the Montana Supreme Court, supports reinstating several new voting laws blocked by a judge in March, including ones eliminating same-day voter registration and heightening voter identification requirements in the state. The court in May suspended that ruling but has not issued a final decision.
Represented by lawyers from Jones Day, the group also filed [....]
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Republicans aren't pushing back on the core facts of Cassidy Hutchinson's compelling testimony concerning the Jan. 6 attack.
@ Politico Congess Minutes, 5 HOURS AGO
Former President Donald Trump downplayed his connection to her.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/28/2022 - 8:20pm
She's still there
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/28/2022 - 8:42pm
Andrew Yang:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/28/2022 - 8:50pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:02am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:20am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:31am
CNN says it aloud about Colorado GOP:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 1:02am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 12:56am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/29/2022 - 7:06pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 2:54pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/30/2022 - 2:56pm
Not heading there fast enough
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 12:16pm
GOP is changing, right?
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/01/2022 - 2:21pm
All culture wars all the time? (And I've got to admit that that's what many educated millennials want. Even in their jobs, as Yglesias well knows.)
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 12:38pm
to wit, basically the same thing:
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/02/2022 - 12:41pm
Still missing the Russian angle
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 07/03/2022 - 6:04pm
GOP stunned but not that stunned
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 5:23am
analysis by Peter Baker -
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/04/2022 - 6:10am
worthwhile as usual:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/05/2022 - 3:21am
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 2:56pm
he is Senior editor, National Review
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 11:59pm
One of his known sons is becoming quite the Konservativ Kardashian
Retweet - "Jan6 attack on Capitol, Congress and certifying presidential vote not as important as summer riots and expensive gas" - aka, just move on, nothing to see here.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/08/2022 - 3:42am
by artappraiser on Thu, 07/07/2022 - 6:37pm
aha, when it really matters electorally and isn't just inconsequential red meat for culture warriors, DeSantis is quiet as a church mouse
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/12/2022 - 8:04pm
Half of G.O.P. Voters Ready to Leave Trump Behind, Poll Finds
Far from consolidating his support, the former president appears weakened in his party, especially with younger and college-educated Republicans. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is the most popular alternative.
By Michael C. Bender @ NYTimes.com, July 12
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 3:09pm
Wow, nearly 1 in 5 - brave democracy rises from the ashes.
But half of GOP primary voters would back an insurrectionist president 1 more time - loyalty before common sense carries the day at last.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 3:14pm
brave is not a word I would use to describe anonymous respondents to a pollster
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 3:48pm
btw what Biden just said (found retweeted by Maggie Haberman)
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/13/2022 - 3:56pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 3:29am
Lame. "You are neither hot nor cold - I will spit thee out"
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 11:05am
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 3:33am
Trump doing blackmail the other day in Wisconsin:
Thing is, how can he effect much using Truth Social as a tool? There it's just preaching to a choir that wants the GOP to be the Trump party, so no minds are changed. He has the limited vision of a narcissist.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 7:21pm
The 18 anti-NATO Trumpers in the House:
I should note many in the replies are calling them "The Putin Caucus"
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 9:54pm
more at Twitter events, 3 hrs. ago
House passes bill codifying same-sex marriage
The House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act in a vote of 267 to 157 on Tuesday, a bill that will codify same-sex marriage nationwide in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade last month. The legislation would also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law signed by former president Bill Clinton that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The legislation faces an uncertain fate in the Senate, where at least 10 Republicans would need to join with Democrats to overcome the filibuster, CNN reports.
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 10:01pm
Interesting because she's a relatively sophisticated pro-MAGA, anti-woke psychologist with lots of followers:
by artappraiser on Tue, 07/19/2022 - 11:21pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 3:47am
by artappraiser on Wed, 07/20/2022 - 6:05pm
No, he's a football coach. Alabama & Auburn made the transition 8 years ago - Google it:
https://www.google.com/search?q=alabama+gay+football+players&oq=alabama+...
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 10:29am
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 8:01am
^ This is actually a crucial piece to read if you care about the future of politics and policy.
It makes very clear which entities and people on the right have gone with a serious MAGA agenda, see Trumpism as an ideology and not the single narcissist most of us do. Head and shoulders above anything published on topic before. Follows "the money," not just talk. And well-written, easy to read. What's real clear is that a lot of conservative orgs and activists have seen a sea change. (May end up being something like the "Reagan revolution" was.) Also is surprisingly candid about which people Trump ended up hating...lots to chew on...
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 5:10pm
P.S. Some central beliefs stand out real clear: Isolationism on foreign policy; protectionism on economic policy; anti-new immigrant, even anti legal immigrant; and especially real serious about 'DRAINING THE SWAMP' and VOIDING THE DEEP STATE of Federal government. Much more serious about the latter than Grover Norquist, plans are being put down on paper on how to do things like get rid of the FBI and CIA and a lot of Pentagon brass, other Fed bureaucracies as one can imagine. And guess what, they seem to have a Supreme Court now that agrees that nearly everything should be left up to the states.
by artappraiser on Fri, 07/22/2022 - 5:21pm
Ex-Trump AG Barr, others launch Republican-backed election law group
By Jacqueline Thomsen @ Reuters.com, July 21
by artappraiser on Sat, 07/23/2022 - 12:25am