Two prominent conservative news sites have published columns or editorials speaking out against former President Donald Trump, with one calling him "unfit for power" and the other saying he "caused the problem".
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to MarkMeadows, testified during a surprise hearing on Tuesday about the former president's behavior in the days leading up to and during the Capitol riot.
The Washington Examiner editorial said that Trump is "unfit to be near power again" and called him a disgrace. It urged Republican voters not to vote for him.
Andrew C. McCarthy wrote that things would not be the same after this.
McCarthy wrote that Trump knew that things might get real, real bad. If the Secret Service had not been insubordinate he would have made it worse.
Hutchinson said that Trump told staff that his supporters were not here to hurt him at the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6.
She was told by security staff that he had an altercation with a Secret Service driver who refused to take him to the Capitol.
It was the first time that a Trump staff member had ever publicly tied him to the attack.
The Washington Examiner's senior columnist wrote that Trump's insistence on allowing armed supporters to attend his rally demonstrated how bad he is.
A good shepherd would have tried to diffuse the situation if he had known that his flock was armed. He would have taken care of his followers' safety.
While Trump and his supporters have derided Hutchinson's testimony as lies or hearsay, the Examiner wrote in its editorial that her resume alone should establish her credibility and that she had already worked at the highest levels of conservative Republican politics.
The editorial said that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony on Tuesday should end Donald Trump's political career.
The editorial said that she did not overstate things, did not seem to be seeking attention, and was very precise about how and why she knew what she was talking about.
The Examiner said that Hutchinson's testimony was "disturbing" and that it was "distressing" to hear her account of how Trump would throw a temper tantrum.
The Examiner published editorials that criticized Hutchinson's testimony, such as an opinion piece by Esther Wickham, which said the former aide was regurgitating what other people said.
McCarthy criticized the January 6 panel in his column. The committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, was criticized for being highly partisan and for keeping testimony secret.
McCarthy wrote that the evidence she presented was not dismissable because they wanted it to be false or because they didn't like the committee process.
McCarthy wrote that the committee lacks due-process legitimacy because it lacks legitimacy as an ultimate finder of fact. It doesn't mean that we can't dismiss the evidence the committee gives us.
It would be odd for Hutchinson to identify many witnesses who could refute her testimony if she intended to lie.
McCarthy wrote that while some details of Hutchinson's testimony could be labeled hearsay, he added that government officials are expected to report things to their superiors.
"Hutchinson showed the nation, moment by moment, what he was like on a day when Trump was not at his best," he wrote.
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