Last Friday’s videotaped deposition of Pat Cipollone, former Trump White House counsel, illustrates some of the worst elements of the House January 6 committee’s so-called investigation of the Capitol riot, at least if the New York Times’ reporting is to be believed.
The pressure the committee put on Cipollone to testify was ratcheted up after the appearance of Cassidy Hutchinson, former principal aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, at a June 28 session. Cipollone had already given the committee an informal interview. Obviously, then, the committee’s ardor to acquire additional information from Cipollone was driven by expectations that he could confirm Hutchinson’s explosive account, which portrayed Cipollone as a central figure — mainly, in pushing back against then-president Donald Trump’s malfeasance. So a major question is: Did Cipollone corroborate Hutchinson’s account?
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