A handwriting analysis of a tweet draft is the latest piece of evidence contradicting the testimony of star Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson who has come under fire from House Republicans for her role in the investigation led by the Democrat-controlled Jan. 6 Select Committee.
In her public testimony before the special committee in June 2022, Hutchinson told Congress, under oath, that she wrote the note for a proposed tweet as her boss, President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and Eric Herschmann, a personal attorney to Trump, dictated it to her.
Immediately after her public testimony, Herschmann disputed Hutchinson’s claim, according to the House Republicans.
Now, the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight said it ordered a handwriting analysis from an expert who determined was consistent with Herschmann’s writing, not Hutchinson’s.
“This new evidence provided by an independent, Certified Questioned Document Examiner, not only contradicts Ms. Hutchinson’s numerous claims that she penned the note, but also exposes the Select Committee’s willingness to accept all her testimonies without corroboration or further investigation,” Chairman Barry Loudermilk said in a press release.
You can read the note and the press release here.
During its investigation, the Jan. 6 Select Committee, Loudermilk’s committee says, did not contact Herschmann to confirm who wrote the note despite his public insistence Hutchinson was not the author.
In a footnote to its final report, the select committee claimed to have conducted a handwriting analysis of its own, finding it consistent with Hutchinson’s writing, despite citing no authority on the matter.
This is not the first instance of Hutchinson’s key testimony being contradicted by other witnesses or new facts.
After firing her first Trump-friendly lawyer, Hutchinson would go on to alter several components of her original testimony and provide new accounts that would feature prominently in the final report, including some that were disputed by other witnesses.
Just the News previously documented several of new narratives Hutchinson brought to the committee memorialized in an errata sheet, including the infamous story about then-President Trump allegedly grabbing the wheel of the presidential vehicle in anger after the Secret Service allegedly refused to take him to the Capitol.
Though this claim was directly refuted by the driver of the vehicle, the Democrat-run Jan. 6 Committee credited that information in its final report as being credible.
