You Will Anyway: Turning tide

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Turning tide

While there remain hardline Trump supporters who still stand by the former president and dismissed Hutchinson's testimony as "hearsay," some others who previously defended him have started to change their tune.

Mick Mulvaney, Trump's former Acting Chief of Staff, explicitly stated that he can no longer support Trump in the wake of Hutchinson's testimony.

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Sarah Matthews, a deputy press secretary in the Trump administration, tweeted that those who are attempting to downplay 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."

Even the Rupert Murdoch press, which includes some of the staunchest supporters of Trump, appeared to acknowledge the damage Hutchinson's testimony inflicted.

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Conservative lawyer and frequent Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy wrote an opinion piece for the Murdoch-owned New York Post arguing that the case to charge Trump with a crime "appears to be getting stronger" following Hutchinson's testimony.

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McCarthy previously defended Trump around the time of his first impeachment. He wrote a book attacking Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference at the 2016 election, as well as the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Obama administration, entitled Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

The Washington Examiner, another right-wing news outlet, published an editorial arguing that Hutchinson's testimony shows that Trump is "unfit to be anywhere near power ever again."

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On Tuesday, Fox News anchor Bret Baier described Hutchinson's claims as "compelling" while highlighting the alleged quote from Meadows, stating Trump "doesn't care" that his supporters were chanting "hang Mike Pence" at the Capitol because he believes the then-vice president "deserves it."

Baier went on to dismiss the series of posts Trump wrote on Truth Social while Hutchinson was delivering her testimony.

"Cassie Hutchinson is under oath on Capitol Hill. The president is on Truth Social making his statements," Baier said.

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"For the first time since the hearings started, no one is dismissing this," [a] Trump aide said.

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