Liz Cheney

Cheney has made it clear what this is about — her love for this “incredible jewel, this incredible blessing of a country.” It's about the “danger of this ...

... The Jan. 6 investigation isn’t only about the inexcusable violence of that day: It is also about fidelity to the Constitution and the rule of law, and whether elected representatives believe in those things or not.” But for many of us, they rekindle a spark of hope that some leaders will serve as a saving remnant. Retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who also agreed to serve on the Jan. 6 committee over McCarthy’s objections, has been similarly honest about the GOP’s dalliance with white supremacy and racism. Well, for those who couldn’t see it, she has explained what this is about. It was Cheney who, after the racist atrocity in Buffalo, New York, spoke the truth about the GOP’s coddling of the Great Replacement Theory. As recently as 2017, replacement theory was the province of neo-Nazis and kooks. Unseating her is a top Trump priority, and a recent poll found her lagging her challenger by 30 points. With the exception of the exceptional Cheneys, the entire Republican side of the House was empty on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. Stefanik, like 99% of Republicans, has learned to love aggression, revel in trolling and despise honor. She was the face and voice of accountability. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse.” Like the Greek goddess of retribution, Nemesis, she has brought down her hammer on former President Donald Trump and the Trumpified GOP, delivering blows in the form of truth. Now, in 2022, Tucker Carlson touts replacement explicitly on his cable show, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, who replaced Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference last May, has run Facebook ads incorporating the idea.

She has been unrepentant in continuing to blame the former president for stoking the Jan. 6 attack, and her Republican colleagues for following his lead.

“And if we really want to understand why Jan. 6 is a line that can never be crossed again, then we really do have to put the politics and the partisanship aside and say what happened.” “In Wyoming, we know what it means to ride for the brand,” Ms. Cheney said. Her husband, Philip Perry, and one of her four children were to attend the evening hearing, but former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, remained in their suburban Virginia home. The lawmaker wrote her own speech, aides said, in consultation with a small inner circle of advisers in her office and lawyers on the panel. “Those who invaded our Capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what President Trump had told them: that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president,” Ms. Cheney said. And it was she who pressed to assemble a bipartisan team of former intelligence analysts and law enforcement specialists on the committee’s staff. She has been unrepentant in continuing to blame Mr. Trump for stoking the attack, and her Republican colleagues for following his lead by spreading the lie of a stolen presidential election. Video shared during the hearing on Thursday showed Ms. Cheney personally pressing Jared Kushner, the former president’s son-in-law and adviser, about whether Mr. Trump’s lawyer threatened to resign over his false election claims. And she emphasized how Mr. Trump had responded blithely when told that the rioters storming the Capitol threatened his vice president, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.” “Wyoming? Not so much.” “As you’re listening to some of my colleagues and others who think that the way to respond to this investigation is with politics and partisanship — those people are not acting in a way that is healthy for the country,” she said in an interview with The Dispatch this week. But Ms. Cheney did not back down, and in taking a leadership role on the Jan. 6 panel, she has elevated herself as perhaps the foremost critic of Mr. Trump in today’s Republican Party. She has said she views the assignment as the most important of her political career, and she often uses language borrowed from the criminal code — delivered in a characteristically blunt tone — to make clear that she believes the former president faces criminal exposure.

Cheney, vice chair of the House select committee, will make a statement at Thursday's primetime hearing and lead the questioning of witnesses.

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Rep. Liz Cheney immediately took shots at former President Donald Trump in her opening statement at the Jan. 6 committee's prime-time TV hearing on ...

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi is the chairman. The other is Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. “President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack,” said Ms. Cheney of Wyoming, who has emerged as the most vocal anti-Trump Republican in Congress.

"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will ...

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As you will see in the hearings to come, President Trump believed his supporters at the Capitol, and I quote, “were doing what they should be doing.” This is ...

He did not talk to his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. President Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day, and he made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. You will hear about members of the Trump cabinet discussing the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment, and replacing the President of the United States. Multiple Members of President Trump’s own Cabinet resigned immediately after January 6th. The White House staff knew that President Trump was willing to entertain and use conspiracy theories to achieve his ends. We need to establish the narrative, you know, that the President is still in charge and that things are steady or stable, or words to that effect. The tweet led to the planning for what occurred on January 6th, including by the Proud Boys who ultimately led the invasion of the Capitol and the violence that day. You will also hear that President Trump met with that group alone for a period of time before White House lawyers and other staff discovered the group was there, and rushed to intervene. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. The Department of Justice had, in fact, repeatedly told President Trump exactly the opposite – that they had investigated his stolen election allegations and found no credible fraud that could impact the outcome of the election. In our second hearing, you will see that Donald Trump and his advisors knew that he had, in fact, lost the election. He explained that all of the fraud allegations and the campaign’s other election arguments taken together and viewed in the best possible light for President Trump, could still not change the outcome of the election. You will hear that President Trump was yelling, and “really angry at advisors who told him he needed to be doing something more.” And, aware of the rioters’ chants to “hang Mike Pence,” the President responded with this sentiment: “maybe our supporters have the right idea.” Mike Pence “deserves” it. In our hearings to come, we will identify elements of those plans, and we will show specifically how a group of Proud Boys led a mob into the Capitol building on January 6th.

"You will see evidence of each element of this plan," Cheney said during the first public hearing of the January 6 committee.

"In our hearings, you will see evidence of each element of this plan." Trump also planned to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who rejected his false election claims, with another official who would spread the falsehoods, the panel's evidence showed. Cheney's comments came during the first of several public hearings that the January 6 panel plans to hold this month to reveal its findings after a year-long investigation.

Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney serves as vice chair of the House select committee investigating January 6. She will give an opening statement at the primetime ...

Cheney's party could retake control of the House in the midterms. "But I'm particularly pleased that she has been willing to take the slings and arrows to do what's right and to set the record straight." The night before they ousted her, Cheney took to the House floor to argue her position was in line with her party's principles. And I said, 'Liz, I've got one of those in my office too!' You know, and she started cracking up." Cheney's decision to continue public and sustained criticism of Trump made her an outcast in the party she reveres. She said Cheney's work at the State Department informs her approach to the Jan. 6 committee's work. "I think there's all kinds of opportunities for her. Raskin said Cheney joined the chair of the House Democratic Caucus in that moment. I won't surrender to pressure or intimidation." "She teased me about that. She worked on her father Dick Cheney's campaign when he was George W. Bush's running mate in 2000. "She's very, very conservative, and I'm not.

Almost alone among her colleagues (Adam Kinzinger being the only other Republican lawmaker who agreed to join the committee), the congresswoman has stuck ...

Former President Donald Trump had a "sophisticated seven-point plan" to overturn the 2020 presidential election over the course of several months, January 6 ...

These are initial findings and the Select Committee's investigation is still ongoing. Cheney did not detail the specific points of the plan in her opening statement. - President Trump corruptly pressured Vice President Pence to refuse to count certified electoral votes in violation of the US Constitution and the law.

Following the first hearing of the January 6 House select committee, Scott Jennings writes that vice chair of the committee, Rep. Liz Cheney, "delivered a ...

She called what happened that day "carnage" and "chaos," two words that ought never be needed when describing the mechanics of our American constitutional order. I have no doubt that some people who invaded the Capitol had no idea they would be doing so that day when they appeared for the pre-riot rally. But Thursday's hearing felt like a desperate plea to the Department of Justice to indict Trump and his co-conspirators for what was repeatedly called an "illegal" attempt to circumvent the results of the 2020 election. Committee chairman Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson's long speech (complete with his own personal narrative and historical anecdotes) had virtually nothing to do with the matter at hand and risked losing people who might have tuned in for something other than the usual boring congressional pablum. was used multiple times, just the way a prosecutor would lay out an opening argument to a jury before proceeding with evidence and witness testimony. Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who co-chaired the committee, delivered a long presentation that felt like the opening arguments of a criminal trial.

Cheney used her platform to point out a fork in the road for her party: Trump vs. Pence (and Reagan).

“The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president, except one,” Cheney said. And not only did the president do nothing; he seemed to revel in it. “Some in the White House took responsible steps to try to prevent January 6th. She referenced our country’s history of peaceful transfers of power — something Reagan in 1981 labeled “ nothing less than a miracle.” “When a president fails to take the steps necessary to preserve our union or worse causes a constitutional crisis, we’re at a moment of maximum danger for our republic,” she said. “You will hear that President Trump was yelling and, quote, ‘really angry at advisers who told him he needed to be doing something more,' ” she said. She held up Pence as a beacon — a conservative Republican who ultimately did the right thing when called upon. Repeatedly, she contrasted Trump with his vice president, Mike Pence, and the latter’s actions on and comments about Jan. 6. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. President Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day and he made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. He did not talk to his attorney general. It gives the proceedings significantly more than a veneer of bipartisanship. If there was any remaining doubt about Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) commitment to exposing Donald Trump for his actions related to Jan. 6, 2021, they were dispatched very early in the House select committee’s first hearing Thursday night.