Report: Cassidy Hutchinson Fabricated Testimony About Conversation with Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 29 Jun 2022

Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who was the January 6 committee’s star witness during a surprise hearing held on Tuesday, reportedly fabricated pieces of her testimony about conversations she had with former White House counsel Pat Cipollone. During her testimony, Hutchinson claimed that Cipollone told her to tell her boss, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, that former President Donald Trump should not go to the Capitol on January 6.  Hutchinson testified that Cipollone said, “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable,” if Trump went to the Capitol.........The January 6 Committee “is aware of this discrepancy,” according to Posobiec, and “are ignoring media inquiries about it.”

“Seems she made up the entire conversation,” Posobiec added............. shortly after Hutchinson’s testimony, two Secret Service agents in the SUV that day reportedly confirmed their intent to make statements under oath that would contradict Hutchinson’s story..............To Read More....

My Take - One thing is clear, at least to me, she lied, and the committee knew she lied.  Why do I say the committee knew she lied.  Its simple, all we have to do is ask why didn't they subpoena the secret service agents and the man who allegedly told her this stuff?  They didn't because they knew it was all a lie and thought the media could carry that vile polluted bucket of water for them.  They certainly tried, and now the stench of that polluted water is all over them. 

Now, there's only two questions to be answered:  When will the Justice Department charge her with perjury?  When will the Committee be investigated for its part of what clearly must be a conspiracy to commit perjury?

Always someone left to lie to

January 24, 2022 By Thomas Buckley

The late lamented Christopher Hitchens wrote a book about Bill (and to a lesser extent Hillary) Clinton entitled No One Left to Lie To.  While Hitchens was a brilliant polemicist whose notorious wit could turn instantaneously from sledgehammer to scalpel and back again, he was not, it appears, a terribly good prognosticator.  There are still people left to lie to, and, sadly, there always will be.

Imagine, if you will, the parable of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" updated for today.  Instead of the boy's lie being confined to one small village, it would — through social media, etc. — be out there for the whole world to hear and not necessarily at the same time.  Like a good marketing campaign, the boy could make sure to target certain audiences at certain times, thereby potentially perpetuating the lie for eons.  "It takes two to lie -- one to lie and one to listen." More

 

From Climate Change to COVID, Dems Don’t Believe a Word They Say

The left doesn’t have a hypocrisy problem, it has a sincerity problem.

  By Graham J Noble September 05, 2021 Articles, Opinion, The Left @ Liberty Nation

The Japanese Buddhist philosopher and educator, Daisaku Ikeda, once said, “Genuine sincerity opens people’s hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.”

There is a fatal flaw in the far-left’s now decades-long assault on America’s culture and traditions and its relentless pursuit of absolute power. That flaw is an utter lack of conviction. In short, progressives do not believe a word of their own dogma – and everyone else is beginning to see it. Whether the issue is abortion and women’s rights, public health, gun control, or climate change, the insincerity of left-wing activists and politicians is glaringly obvious. What they are really practicing is pure manipulation.

So, Men Can’t Have Babies?

The most recent of countless examples of this insincerity was White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s scolding of a male reporter during a press briefing. Owen Jensen, who reports for the Catholic news network EWTN, challenged Psaki to explain why Joe Biden, a Catholic, supports abortion. When the press secretary attempted to brush him off by saying, “[Biden] believes that it is a woman’s right. It’s a woman’s body and it’s her choice,” Jensen responded, “Who does he believe, then, should look out for the unborn child?”

In a perfect demonstration of the left’s disturbing insistence that an unborn child has no natural right to life, Psaki countered, “He believes it is up to a woman to make those decisions and up to a woman to make those with her doctor.” Evidently, the very idea that the unborn deserve having anyone look out for them was not even worthy of consideration.

if Psaki was smart, she would at that point have moved swiftly on to another reporter and another issue. But she’s not smart, and like almost all progressives who find their beliefs questioned, she was unable to resist attempting to demean her questioner. In doing so, however, Biden’s spokeswoman exposed the left’s entire narrative on gender identity for what it really is; a sham and a myth that even progressives themselves do not believe.

“I know you’ve never faced those choices,” the press secretary snapped at Jensen, “nor have you ever been pregnant, but for women out there who have faced those choices this is an incredibly difficult thing and the president believes their rights should be respected.”

Psaki was assuming, then, that Jensen has never been pregnant, nor had to face the choice between aborting and giving birth to a child – because Jensen is a man. Up until just a few years ago, that assumption would have appeared perfectly reasonable. The problem is, leftists have been insisting for a while, now, that men are capable of menstruating, getting pregnant, and even breastfeeding. They are currently trying to replace “mother” with “birthing person” to drive home the point that no biological differences exist between males and females. Of course, that is all nonsense and entirely unscientific – and Psaki knows it, as do all progressives. Thus, it came naturally to her to point out to a man that he couldn’t possibly know what it is like to carry an unborn child.

Back to the press secretary’s earlier comment that “it’s a woman’s body and it’s her choice.” Americans have been hearing that refrain for years from the pro-abortion crowd. “My body, my choice,” their signs say. But this is something else leftists don’t really believe, or they would be repulsed by the idea of mask and vaccination mandates.

What Public Health Crisis?

Oh, but that’s different, the progressive would likely say. Masks and vaccinations are a public health issue, intended to protect everybody. And yet, in just the last eight months, hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants have been allowed to stream across the southern border – many of them flown or bussed to various parts of the country. The medical histories of these individuals are entirely unknown. Are they infected with COVID-19, or perhaps something far worse? Have they been vaccinated? Who knows? Who cares? More recently, some 50,000 Afghan refugees have been admitted to the United States. Again, their medical conditions are of no consequence. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) wants the Biden administration to admit 200,000 Afghans.

What does all this prove? That nobody on the left takes the threat of COVID-19 seriously. If more evidence were needed, consider the countless photos and videos of maskless, partying Democrat politicians now out there on the interwebs.

Failing at Faking It

Left-wing celebrities screech about climate change before hopping onto their private jets or super yachts to frolic in exotic locations around the world. Then, they return to their beachfront mansions – you know, the ones that will be swallowed up by the rising oceans in just a few years, or so they constantly warn us.

Black lives matter except the many hundreds of black lives lost every year to inner-city gang violence. Women should be empowered, except that there’s no longer anything special about women because men, too, can have babies. Not only that, but men can now compete in women’s sports, shattering the future dreams of every little girl who thought she might become a champion athlete.

The late Daniel Schorr, who had a more than 60-year career as a highly respected print and broadcast journalist, once said about sincerity, “if you can fake it, you’ve got it made.” Leftists, because of their hubris – and not a little incompetence – are unable to fake it any longer. Their sincerity has been exposed as manipulation. That fact, more than any other, is why, ultimately, they will never succeed.

Jonathan Turley: Congress May Have Restrained Capitol Police to Preserve False Lafayette Park Narrative

Joel B. Pollak14 Apr 2021

Constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley argued Wednesday that Congress may have prevented the U.S. Capitol Police from preparing for the January 6 riot to protect a false narrative about the reason Lafayette Square was cleared after riots in 2020.

Turley referred to an internal report by Capitol Police Inspector General Michael A. Bolton that revealed the force declined to deploy its Civil Disturbance Unit, and was ordered not to use the most powerful means at its disposal to disperse crowds.

The report apparently confirmed that there was a reluctance to send the National Guard to assist the Capitol Police due to “optics.” The Capitol Police report to the leadership of Congress, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Turley noted that Democrats and the media had promoted the false claim that President Donald Trump had used tear gas to clear “peaceful protesters” from Lafayette Square so that he could walk across it for a “photo-op” at the church across the street.

The Black Lives Matter protest at Lafayette Square, across from the White House, had included a riot that resulted in injuries to dozens of police officers. Journalists — including one from Breitbart News — were assaulted by those in the square.

Then-President-elect Joe Biden repeated the false claim on January 7, in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. As Breitbart News noted at the time, Biden recycled several false statements about Lafayette Square that he and his party used throughout 2020.

Turley noted that Attorney General William Barr had already ordered countermeasures — including perimeter fencing — before Trump’s walk across the park. He argued further that Congress seems to have restrained itself from deploying that fencing, or using the National Guard, precisely because it did not want to contradict the false Lafayette Square narrative:...........To Read More....

Our Group's Take - I knew that the media and the leftists claims about Lafayette Park or false but I didn't realize just how false! Nor did I know a number of the different facts that were involved in that which are reported in this article. For example, I didn't know that dozens of police officers had already been injured although I knew that there had been attacks on them with frozen bottles and other such projectiles. I also didn't know that some journalists had been attacked.  I just can't get over how grossly and blatantly dishonest the left is - including its top leaders such as Biden, Obama, Harris, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, etc etc etc and of course including the mainstream media.

My Take - The moral foundation of the left knows no boundaries and is predicated on hate, envy, greed, violence.  Corruption and mendacity are the heart of leftism and that corruption knows no boundaries.   

Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying?

Jeffrey A. Tucker  – March 26, 2021

 

 I'm sitting at a bar in Texas, surrounded by maskless people, looking at folks on the streets walking around like life is normal, talking with nice and friendly faces, feeling like things in the world are more-or-less normal. Cases and deaths attributed to Covid are, like everywhere else, falling dramatically. 

If you pay attention only to the media fear campaigns, you would find this confusing. More than two weeks ago, the governor of Texas completely reversed his devastating lockdown policies and repealed all his emergency powers, along with the egregious attacks on rights and liberties.

There was something very un-Texan about those lockdowns. My hotel room is festooned with pictures of cowboys on horses waving guns in the air, along with other depictions of rugged individualism facing down the elements. It’s a caricature but Texans embrace it. Then a new virus came along – as if that had never happened before in Texas – and the new Zoom class took the opposite path, not freedom but imposition and control. 

After nearly a year of nonsense, on March 2, 2021, the governor finally said enough is enough and repealed it all. Towns and cities can still engage in Covid-related mischief but at least they are no longer getting cover from the governor’s office. 

At that moment, a friend remarked to me that this would be the test we have been waiting for. A complete repeal of restrictions would lead to mass death, they said. Would it? Did the lockdowns really control the virus? We would soon find out, he theorized. 

I knew better. The “test” of whether and to what extent lockdowns control the virus or “suppress outbreaks” (in Anthony Fauci’s words) has been tried all over the world. Every serious empirical examination has shown that the answer is no. 

The US has many examples of open states that have generally had better performance in managing the disease than those states that are closed. Georgia already opened on April 24, 2020. South Dakota never shut down. South Carolina opened in May. Florida ended all restrictions in September. In every case, the press howled about the coming slaughter that did not happen. Yes, each open state experienced a seasonality wave in winter but so did the lockdown states. 

So it was in Texas. Thanks to this Twitter thread, and some of my own googling, we have a nice archive of predictions about what would happen if Texas opened. 

• California Governor Gavin Newsom said that opening Texas was “absolutely reckless.”
• Gregg Popovich, head coach of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, said opening was “ridiculous” and “ignorant.”
• CNN quoted an ICU nurse saying “I’m scared of what this is going to look like.”
• Vanity Fair went over the top with this headline: “Republican Governors Celebrate COVID Anniversary With Bold Plan to Kill Another 500,000 Americans.”
• There was the inevitable Dr. Fauci: “It just is inexplicable why you would want to pull back now.”
• Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke of Texas revealed himself to be a full-blown lockdowner: It’s a “big mistake,” he said. “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death.” He accused the governor of “sacrificing the lives of our fellow Texans … for political gain.”
• James Hamblin, a doctor and writer for the Atlantic, said in a Tweet liked by 20K people: “Ending precautions now is like entering the last miles of a marathon and taking off your shoes and eating several hot dogs.”
• Bestselling author Kurt Eichenwald flipped out: “Goddamn. Texas already has FIVE variants that have turned up: Britain, South Africa, Brazil, New York & CA. The NY and CA variants could weaken vaccine effectiveness. And now idiot @GregAbbott_TX throws open the state.” He further called the government “murderous.” 
• Epidemiologist Whitney Robinson wrote: “I feel genuinely sad. There are people who are going to get sick and die bc of avoidable infections they get in the next few weeks. It’s demoralizing.”
• Pundit Bill Kristol (I had no idea that he was a lockdowner) wrote: “Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together.”
• Health pundit Bob Wachter said the decision to open was “unforgivable.”
• Virus guru Michael Osterholm told CNN: “We’re walking into the mouth of the monster. We simply are.”
• Joe Biden famously said that the Texas decision to open reflected “Neanderthal thinking.”
• Nutritionist Eric Feigl-Ding said that the decision makes him want to “vomit so bad.”
• The chairman of the state’s Democratic Party said: “What Abbott is doing is extraordinarily dangerous. This will kill Texans. Our country’s infectious-disease specialists have warned that we should not put our guard down, even as we make progress towards vaccinations. Abbott doesn’t care.”
• Other state Democrats said in a letter that the decision was “premature and harmful.”
• The CDC’s Rochelle Walensky didn’t mince words: “Please hear me clearly: At this level of cases with variants spreading, we stand to completely lose the hard-earned ground we have gained. I am really worried about reports that more states are rolling back the exact public health measures we have recommended to protect people from COVID-19.”

There are probably hundreds more such warnings, predictions, and demands, all stated with absolute certainty that basic social and market functioning is a terrible idea. The lockdown lobby was out in full force. And yet what do we see now more than two weeks out (and arguably the lockdowns died on March 2, when the government announced the decision)? 

Here are the data. 

The CDC has a very helpful tool that allows anyone to compare open vs closed states. The results are devastating for those who believe that lockdowns are the way to control a virus. In this chart we compare closed states Massachusetts and California with open states Georgia, Florida, Texas, and South Carolina. 

What can we conclude from such a visualization? It suggests that the lockdowns have had no statistically observable effect on the virus trajectory and resulting severe outcomes. The open states have generally performed better, perhaps not because they are open but simply for reasons of demographics and seasonality. The closed states seem not to have achieved anything in terms of mitigation. 

On the other hand, the lockdowns destroyed industries, schools, churches, liberties and lives, demoralizing the population and robbing people of essential rights. All in the name of safety from a virus that did its work in any case. 

As for Texas, the results so far are in.

I’m making no predictions about the future path of the virus in Texas. Indeed for a full year, AIER has been careful about not trying to outguess this virus, which has its own ways, some predictable and some mysterious. The experience has, or should have, humbled everyone. Political arrangements seem to have no power to control it, much less finally suppress it. The belief that it was possible to control people in order to control a virus produced a calamity unprecedented in modern times. 

What’s striking about all the above predictions of infections and deaths is not just that they were all wrong. It’s the arrogance and confidence behind each of them. After a full year and directly observing the inability of “nonpharmaceutical interventions” to manage the pathogen, the experts are still wedded to their beloved lockdowns, unable or unwilling to look at the data and learn anything from them. 

The concept of lockdowns stemmed from a faulty premise: that you can separate humans, like rats in cages, and therefore control and even eradicate the virus. After a year, we unequivocally know this not to be true, something that the best and wisest epidemiologists knew all along. Essential workers still must work; they must go home to their families, many in crowded living conditions. Lockdowns do not eliminate the virus, they merely shift the burden onto the working class.  

Now we can see the failure in black, white, and full color, daily appearing on our screens courtesy of the CDC. Has that shaken the pro-lockdown pundit class? Not that much. What an amazing testament to the stubbornness of elite opinion and its bias against basic freedoms. They might all echo the words of Groucho Marx: “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”

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Jeffrey A. Tucker

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research.

He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and nine books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

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The Truth Don’t Matter

To the progressive, liberal, secular, socialist, Democrat elites, the simple fact is that truth doesn’t matter 

By Steve Rossiter —— Bio and Archives--February 11, 2021

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Of all the weird things that have happened during the never ending season of hate, over the last couple of decades, is our culture’s tolerance for out and out lies.  Lies have become the norm because truth and facts just don’t matter anymore.  Politicians lie on the record. (I guess that’s not news.) The media knowingly lies to support whatever their agenda of the day happens to be.  The destruction of the fabric of our culture and our very society is the result of the lies perpetrated by the progressive, liberal, secular, Socialist Democrats elitists (SDe), their surrogates in the various media, and those that bankroll them.

Useful Idiots, Climate Change, Black Lives Matters

The truth is that there is no such thing as a socialist or communist utopia.  No one can point to a successful socialist or communist country anywhere in the world that isn’t run by a tyrannical, elitist, governing class.  The idea of a socialist or communist utopia is a bald faced lie, and this dangerous lie has been sold 100 % to the young American useful idiots by other useful idiots in the out of control education system.  These useful idiots need to try living in one of these socialist or communist utopian countries for three years as a working stiff.  Maybe, just maybe, real education would then take place.

Then there is the case of human caused climate change.  Since the 1970s, the SDe have been using “junk science” to sell a theory that first, climate cooling, then climate warming, and now climate change is human caused. I can safely use the term “junk science” because many of these “scientists” were exposed and have admitted they lied and simply made up data to support the lie of their theory.  Even after the liars were exposed, the SDe are still successfully selling the climate change lie to the useful idiots.........To Read More....

 

The Left Slanderously Accuses Trump of Inciting the Capitol Riot

Progressives' malicious power grab escalates to the wickedest heights. 

 Fri Jan 8, 2021Joseph Klein

 A contingent of protestors invaded, vandalized and occupied portions of the U.S. Capitol on January 6^th -- as the constitutional process of electoral college certification of the 2020 presidential election results was getting underway. The mob violence was an outright assault on the greatest constitutional republic in the world. But instead of making an effort to unite the country against such anarchy, the Left’s leaders and their friends in the establishment media are applying their usual double standard of “for thee, but not for me.” Not surprisingly, they are blaming President Trump for the Capitol unrest, falsely claiming he incited violence during his speech to supporters at Wednesday’s otherwise peaceful “Save America” rally.

President Trump and his supporters at the rally were simply exercising their First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceable assembly. The president’s refusal to concede an election marred by reports of widespread fraud which troubled many voters was not an incitement to violence, nor was his presentation of evidence of a stolen election.

President Trump told his supporters, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women.” In so doing, he was clearly urging them merely to march peacefully and petition their government.........To Read More....

Timing doesn't line up for Trump to have incited violence at the Capitol

January 10, 2021 By Allan J. Favish

 

Democrats are calling for another impeachment of President Donald Trump.  According to The Hill:

Trump has been widely condemned by lawmakers and global leaders for stoking tensions after he encouraged his supporters at a Wednesday rally in Washington, D.C., to march to the Capitol and protest against Congress's certification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

Following Trump's remarks, a mob of his supporters breached Capitol security, broke windows, vandalized lawmakers' offices and temporarily delayed Congress carrying out the certification of election results.

Trump's speech can be seen here courtesy of NTD.  The speech lasted about 1 hour and 12 minutes.  At 18:10 into the video, Trump says, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol Building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."  The Hill omitted that quote from its article, which is consistent with the rest of the mainstream media's coverage of the speech.  In this article by ABC News, a full transcript of the speech is provided.  However, in the first part of the article, in which the speech is described, this quote is omitted, and other quotes from the speech are given that lead the reader to conclude that Trump was inciting the crowd to violence.  The best video of the entire event before the lawbreaking began is from Right Side Broadcasting Network, which shows the crowd and the stage and loudspeaker system. 

To the best of my knowledge, neither the Democrats calling for Trump's impeachment nor the mainstream media have specifically told us who was incited to break into the Capitol by Trump's speech.  The speech began at noon Eastern time on January 6, 2021, as seen from the time stamp on this video broadcast of the speech on C-SPAN2.  Given the speech's length of about 1 hour and 12 minutes, it ended at about 1:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time (EST)..........To Read More.....

Does Anyone Still Have Questions About The Lyin’ King’s “Credibility”?

Written on Saturday, November 23, 2013 by Marilyn Assenheim

On Monday The Lyin’ King claimed that Obamacare had enrolled “100 million people.” As the New York Post pointed out, he’d overstated “by about 99.9 million.” This was just the opening salvo in what has finally caused the most loyal of The Lyin’ King’s flacks to register a smidgen of doubt about his “credibility.”

The Obamacare “truth” meltdown has rapidly morphed from a snowball into a full-scale avalanche. Last Thursday, The Lyin’ King added to the accuracy of his moniker by swearing that he hadn’t lied about the government healthcare website being ready on time. According to Breitbart, the Imperial president claimed he wasn’t “stupid enough to claim that that the website would work if he knew that it would not.” Oops. On Tuesday, The White House spokesperson publically called the lie…a lie: “Jay Carney admitted that President Obama had, in fact, been briefed earlier in the year about potential problems with the website.” That briefing took place in March of this year. On Thursday FOX News reported: The White House is under intensified pressure to hit pause on the rollout of ObamaCare as evidence mounts that officials knew well ahead of time of major problems in the new health care law and its implementation — raising questions whether the administration went ahead, nonetheless, for political purposes.”……To Read More…