Home Republicans on Tuesday stated their one-time colleague, former Consultant Liz Cheney of Wyoming, ought to face a prison investigation for her position on the choose committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
A 128-page report from the Home Administration Subcommittee on Oversight stated Ms. Cheney ought to be investigated for witness tampering. It accuses her of colluding with Cassidy Hutchinson, the previous White Home aide who grew to become the committee’s star witness because it examined Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The report — launched as Mr. Trump, now the president-elect, has been promising retribution in opposition to his political enemies, together with Ms. Cheney — accused Ms. Cheney of utilizing the choose committee as a device to assault Mr. Trump. It was spearheaded by Consultant Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, the chairman of the oversight subcommittee.
Ms. Cheney defended her work on the choose committee in an in depth assertion, and known as the Republicans’ report “a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth.”
She stated the choose committee had heard from “scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration” and produced “a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800-page report.”
Ms. Cheney stated Mr. Loudermilk’s interim report “intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”
