Posted on | January 1, 2026 | No Comments
June 2022: ‘Madison Cornbread’ gets her 15 minutes of fame
It was Ace of Spades who hung the sobriquet “Madison Cornbread” on former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson. In case you forgot, Hutchinson was an assistant to chief of staff Mark Meadows who became a so-called “star witness” when she testified in June 2022 before the J6 “insurrection” committee. That committee was not properly constituted, because Nancy Pelosi would not permit the Republicans to appoint members of their own choosing; instead Pelosi herself chose Lynn Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the “Republican” committee members. There was never any skeptical cross-examination of witnesses, no exculpatory evidence introduced, nothing like an honest effort to provide a fair hearing. The illegitimate nature of the J6 committee is, of course, a perfect analogy for the 2020 election. No intelligent person now believes that Joe Biden actually got 81 million votes in 2020, and scarcely a day goes by now without new reason to believe that Trump really won that election, e.g., officials in Georgia belatedly admitting that more than 300,000 ballots in Fulton County lacked proper verification.
Excuse me for playing conspiracy theorist here, but this is crucial to the whole narrative around the J6 “insurrection.” If you take the anti-Trump view of what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it was an attempt to “overturn” the 2020 election — a threat to Our Democracy. On the other hand, if you have doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election, then the mob who stormed the Capitol had a legitimate grievance, and it was a Mostly Peaceful Protest that got a bit rowdy.
The real purpose of Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witch-hunt committee was to demonize anyone who raised doubts about Joe Biden’s 81 million votes, essentially making it a crime to suggest Democrats stole the election.
In effect, the J6 committee was about continuing the work of the self-described “cabal” that worked to make sure Joe Biden “won” in 2020. The committee was not an “investigation,” it was a cover-up.
As such, no self-respecting Republican should have cooperated with the J6 committee or, if compelled by subpoena to testify, their cooperation should be limited by strictly meeting legal requirements. This brings us back, then, to the strange case of “Madison Cornbread.” She became the “star witness” of that Star Chamber charade because she was willing to share mere gossip — “so-and-so told me that Trump said this” — in particular claiming that Trump had attempted to physically overpower his limousine driver to force him to drive to the Capitol. Actual witnesses immediately contradicted this testimony, but of course the J6 committee never presented these contradicting witnesses, allowing Cassidy Hutchinson’s dubious testimony to become the defining narrative.
Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause. And now, more than three years after her 15 minutes of fame, we get this ironic coda:
The House Select January 6th Committee’s “star” Cassidy Hutchinson provided “secondhand hearsay” about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn’t considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith.
Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson — who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel’s made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 — “certainly” wouldn’t have made a “powerful” witness because she couldn’t provide “firsthand” testimony.
“My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people,” the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition’s transcript shows.
Game. Set. Match.
Here we have the special counsel who got the assignment to put Donald Trump in prison over the 2020 election dispute saying, under oath, that Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony was just gossip. Any first-year law student has to know that hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in a legal proceeding, and Jack Smith couldn’t go to court with that stuff.
We have lived through years of lies about all this — the 2020 election, the Capitol riot, the various “investigations” of Trump — and some people have unfortunately lost their minds in the process. Not naming names, but if certain prominent podcasters have slid over the edge into the kook fringe, isn’t that somewhat understandable, given how much gaslighting we have all endured? EIGHTY-ONE MILLION VOTES!
Maintaining one’s sanity amid the howling madness can be difficult when we are expected to believe the testimony of “Madison Cornbread.”
Thank God I was never that crazy, except for maybe during that psilocybin-induced psychosis in 1979, but why bring that up now?
