A handwriting expert hired by House Republicans investigating the since disbanded Jan. 6 Committee said the panel’s star witness was not the author of a note she took credit for at a congressional hearing two years ago.
On Monday, journalist Julie Kelly published the conclusions of a graphologist commissioned to analyze the handwriting on a note displayed by Jan. 6 Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney during the public appearance of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson before the panel. The note in question included a proposed statement for then-President Donald Trump to issue as rioters descended on the U.S. Capitol.
“That’s a note that I wrote at the direction of the chief of staff on Jan. 6, likely around 3 o’clock,” Hutchinson said under oath at a hearing of the Select Committee in June 2022.
Authorship was immediately disputed by former Trump White House staff.
“The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021,” a spokesperson for the former White House lawyer told ABC News at the time.
According to Kelly, Republican investigators now probing the misconduct of Cheney’s select panel have independently “confirmed Herschmann’s account.”
NEW: Cassidy Hutchinson/Liz Cheney scandal keeps getting worse.@RepLoudermilk hired a handwriting expert to analyze a note Hutchinson testified under oath she had composed the afternoon of January 6.
Cheney held up the note, which was part of a statement dictated by Mark… pic.twitter.com/haBdxSBwFq
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) October
