The lass named Cassidy comes forward

Cassidy Hutchinson

"Cassidy" is a rather unusual name. It seems instantly appealing. In a single day, it emerged with prominence. It emerged out of nowhere in a place where tired old names and windbags are the norm. She's a mere 25-year-old! A young woman as the hero in a national drama? How appropriate. Of course it's not over yet. 

My, how we all have allowed this specter of the Trump presidency to hover and command our attention. Can we not have normal lives without it? The distraction has been suffocating. As I write this, we seem close to getting a stake driven through its heart. A young and unpretentious woman named Cassidy now seems to be the one driving the stake. 

Seems almost Biblical. Rather like David with his slingshot. But is it over? As of late June we really cannot feel such satisfaction yet. I am aching to be able to write that it is over. 

You would think that all the king's horses and all the king's men are not going to keep Trump alive politically now. We are not dealing with rational players here. Somebody taps Rudy Giuliani on the back and Rudy cries foul in the harshest way. It appears that Rudy does what he does just because he is trying to stay in the limelight. 

Mark Meadows? Others like him? It started out as wanting to be close to power, to be a part of it, to soak it in. The guy at the top of that wicked enterprise used mob boss tactics. So, who would want to cross that? The young woman named Cassidy was hurried into her witness chair because there were concerns for her safety. Is this what the power structure of Washington D.C. has devolved to? 

Our legal system can be faulted for taking so long to catch up to Trump. The weeks roll by. Then months. Six months elapsed from the Jan. 6 incident before the committee was even formed. Two brave Republicans came forward to serve with an unflinching eye on the committee. What if the Republican party had no one like that? No one with true character and determination? 

The voices of wisdom have been coming at us fast and furiously from the media, only to be countered by the strange and sinister side, ad nauseam. The "cord-cutting" cannot happen fast enough to get "Fox News" exorcised - that's another stake to be driven. 

But my Lord, how the time passes. Week's end comes, on Friday, and we know the machinery will go quiet for "the weekend." And then it all starts up again, the "investigations" and the stonewalling from the other side. There's Kellyanne Conway who isn't sure if she wants to choose Trump or her own husband George. Top Republicans are still hesitant to say if the 2020 election was fair. People are in their corners with Democrats having a far greater grasp of honesty and wisdom. A child could plainly see. 

And now it's up to a 25-year-old woman to come forward from obscurity, to push past all the big names who have been clamoring for attention, to simply do the most virtuous thing: to calmly tell the truth. To sit there with total poise, no thought to posturing in any way, and to say, really, the emperor has no clothes. And it has taken this long? This excruciatingly long? 

While week after week the media has plodded as if it's some sort of weird cottage industry: the judgment to be made on Trump. The cult persists even now. And is this with the vise closing on him? 

It's impossible to state that for certain, much as we'd love to think Cassidy Hutchinson put it over the top. No, we cannot conclude that our huge national distraction is over. It did not end with "Access Hollywood." Overcoming that required qualities that were almost other-worldly. My God, Trump overcame it. 

Then some other ridiculous piece of news or quote or "tweet" would come along. "This is it, he's crossed the line now," so many of us thought. I began to realize, it's just not going to happen. This man named Trump won't go away, will not be seen for what he is. And it was all out there in front of us to see for so long. 

Let's get some more books, that will help, right? Flushing documents down the toilet? Need I cite other examples? "Bleach and UV lights" while Dr. Birx just sat there and acted like she had to be respectful. And Trump does not even return the loyalty. It is said so often he only thinks of himself, so why can't he be cast on the scrap heap of history? Does he need to be imprisoned? Cannot he show a drop of humility? Well obviously not. 

So why can't we all collectively shrug and put him out of our thoughts, just be sure he is no longer in a position to hurt us, and the world? The U.S. has lost a great deal of respect because of Trump. Yet we cannot pick up the pieces and move on. Not quite yet. No, because if "Access Hollywood" could not have taken care of Trump, nor the stupid stuff that got him thrown off Twitter, we simply cannot rule anything out. 

I have written several times that the German people are very smart, yet they got taken in by Hitler. I'd advise everyone to please wake up and smell the coffee now in America, year 2022. I'm sure a fair number of people are coming over to the side I represent. But not enough. 

In the meantime, it is almost Biblical how the honest lass named Cassidy Hutchinson, 25 years old, appeared and talked in such a direct and matter-of-fact way. We hope she'll be remembered in the appropriate light. But that's only if America can climb out of its horrible abyss: the Trump distraction or obsession. What hath God wrought?

 

Update: I see now where Sean Hannity of Fox News is on the attack against Cassidy. So the sense of stalemate in America may just continue. Nothing I can do about it.

 

- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com