Midnight Mutterings | Tipping point?

||| MIDNIGHT MUTTERINGS by JACKIE BATES |||

When did it happen? When did she realize she couldn’t look the other way any longer? Had she previously chosen to believe what she saw and heard wasn’t happening? That in the big scheme of things it wasn’t the most important thing? That she might not know the whole story? Or that it didn’t matter, wasn’t her job to judge? That there might be other things she didn’t know that explained her observations as faulty, as less disturbing than they seemed? That she was young and they were experienced, must know better, were in charge anyway? Who did she talk to about her misgivings? Her family? Her close friends? Her dog? Herself? Or did she even have misgivings before early January 2021?

How did Cassidy Hutchinson get to the point where she was willing, perhaps driven, to tell her truth, to tell it publically? To support it with increasing, if softly spoken, examples of what went wrong, got more dangerous? Was it because she could see that the people who were powerful enough to stop the impending violence, the gathering violence seemed to have no intention of trying to stop that violence that was January 6, 2021, including President Trump and his Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. She also observed who did try to get Trump to stop the riot, notably Pat Cipollone, who was White House Counsel during the Trump Administration. (That job has been described as keeping the President and staffers from committing crimes, not defending them after crimes are committed. However, Cipollone was President Trump’s defense counsel during the first impeachment.)

What is clear is that Cassidy Hutchinson had nothing to gain but much to lose by speaking up then or now. She is surely in danger for her words she used in her testimony before the US House of Representatives Select Committee’s Investigation of the attack on the capitol on January 6, 2021. Indeed, shortly after Hutchinson’s testimony, President Trump is quoted on video on CNN saying, ‘I hardly know this person.’ He called her ‘…a whack job…living in fantasy land,’ and suggested she has ‘mental problems.’

I strongly suggest watching the Day 6 in full. It never gets boring in spite of its length. If that isn’t in your YouTube time budget, then at least watch the excerpts in a PBS report lasting 13 minutes, 40 seconds.

It’s worth noting that Hutchinson is not some ‘far left extremist.’ She is a ‘lifelong Republican’ (though her life has been only 25 or maybe 26 years at this writing), a supporter of Donald Trump, and was an aide to Mark Meadows, Trump’s Chief of Staff during the time of the January 6 insurrection. Her office was just steps from Mark Meadows’ office. She was ‘in the room or at the door for many private meetings. She was on a first name basis with many of the most powerful persons in the Trump administration. Cassidy Hutchinson played with the Big Boys until she couldn’t do it anymore.