The Wyoming Republican left off Trump’s encouragement for Jan 6 crowd to go home.
QUICK FACTS:
- Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) appeared to attempt to manipulate listeners when she read President Donald Trump’s tweets earlier this week.
- The harsh Trump opponent was reading the content before the Jan. 6 committee, claiming that the president did not do enough to stop the attack on the Capitol building.
- Trump “did not condemn the attack, instead, he justified it,” said Cheney, stopping short of the portion of the tweet where Trump said, “Go home with love and in peace.”
- Cheney also claimed that “On the morning of January 6th, President Trump’s intention was to remain President of the United States despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his Constitutional obligation to relinquish power.”
- The Wyoming Republican also claimed that the former president “engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” regarding the 2020 presidential election.
CHENEY’S COMMENTS:
- “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” said the portion of Trump’s tweet that Cheney read before the committee.
- She claimed that the president called for violence and the disruption of peace on Jan. 6, as the 2020 election results were being certified by then-Vice President Mike Pence.
- “Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. In our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan,” Cheney said during the prime-time hearing.
BACKGROUND:
- The committee held its first prime-time hearing on Thursday evening, detailing the findings from their investigation and playing clips from closed-door depositions.
- Thursday’s display of materials was the first of a series of events for the committee that will take place this month, showing the results of interviews with more than 1,000 people.
