Liz Cheney

Vice-chair of January 6 committee has played crucial role in denting support for the former US president.

She said in a New York Times interview the committee's purpose was to show "how unfit for office" Trump is.

"The forces that want to drag us over the edge are strong and fighting. The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday will walk through, in detail, former President Trump's reported inaction during the 187 minutes that a violent mob attacked the Capitol, aiming to show that he deliberately chose not to intervene. More details: Cheney said she sees parallels between former Vice President Mike Pence's evacuation from the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and the evacuation of her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, to an underground bunker on Sept. 11, 2001. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said her work on the Jan. 6 committee is "the most important thing" she's done in her career, according to a new interview with the New York Times. What she's saying: "I believe this is the most important thing I’ve ever done professionally and maybe the most important thing I ever do," Cheney told the New York Times. - The goal of the committee and subsequent hearings, Cheney said, was to convince people "how dangerous [Trump] is and how unfit for office he is."

Donald Trump projected on a large screen. The real villain of the hearing on Thursday night, as in all the others, was the former President.Photograph by Al ...

I’ll leave the final word, though, to Cheney, who as a direct consequence of her insistence on not shutting up about Trump and the tragedy of January 6th will likely lose her House seat in Wyoming’s Republican primary next month, before the House committee convenes again, in September. “We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation,” Cheney said. Of course, the hearing started out with a built-in problem: we already knew that Trump did not do a damn thing to stop the attack on January 6th, and that he had, in fact, incited and encouraged it. “The case against Donald Trump in these hearings is not made by witnesses who were his political enemies,” Cheney pointed out, but it came instead in the form of “confessions” by his own team. The committee brought two members of that team into the hearing room in person—Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s former deputy national-security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, his former White House deputy press secretary—to testify how they were so disgusted by the President’s refusal to take action on January 6th that they quit in protest that same afternoon. On Thursday night, the House select committee charged with investigating January 6th concluded a two-month run of blockbuster hearings with a searing, minute-by-minute account of what Trump did—and didn’t do—in the dining room that awful afternoon. It was also where Trump, on January 6, 2021, remained holed up for a hundred and eighty-seven minutes, as his followers stormed the U.S. Capitol until he finally, reluctantly, released a video urging them to go home and telling them he loved them.

It was often said during the Trump administration that Cabinet officials and Republican allies were playing to an audience of one: The president of the ...

According to CNN, the staffer was in a position to corroborate part of what Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, had testified before the committee. , that Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the January 6 committee. "New subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break."

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming says serving as former President Donald Trump's chief accuser on the House Jan. 6 panel is the important thing she will do in her ...

“Every time I see it, it brings to mind the image of Jimmy Scott, the Secret Service agent who evacuated my dad down the steps,” Ms. Cheney said, referring to the man who ushered her father out of the West Wing and into an underground bunker as a hijacked airplane headed toward Washington on Sept. 11, 2001. He’s called Ms. Cheney “despicable” and hopes she is ousted in an upcoming congressional primary in Wyoming. “I look at it through the angle of: People need to understand how dangerous he is and how unfit for office he is,” Ms. Cheney said. Ms. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said she views Mr. Trump as an existential threat to America. She said former Vice President Mike Pence was in grave danger because the ex-president castigated Mr. Pence while his supporters stormed the Capitol. She is a staunch conservative but has become a liberal hero of sorts beginning with her vote to impeach Mr. Trump for inciting the riot and then for unleashing sharp critiques on Mr. Trump in the Jan. 6 hearings. “I believe this is the most important thing I’ve ever done professionally, and maybe the most important thing I ever do.”

The Wyoming Republican is winning over a lot of Democrats, but what may be most important is the message she is providing Republicans.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). ET does not guarantee, vouch for or endorse any of its contents nor is responsible for them in any manner whatsoever. She warned her fellow Republican officials that there would come one day when Trump could be gone, but their shame wouldn't. They continue to be enslaved by a cult of personality in the opening hearing on January 6. Thompsonand Cheney appeals to moderate voters' obstinate, old-fashioned idea that the two parties ought to find a way to cooperate for the country's good. Even if he shouldn't be permitted to act like one, he is a child, who has outgrown his stage. The question is whether that can lead to a revitalised political career. The problem is that Cheney's power is solely moral. Seeing a Republican candidate, who wants to hold her party to a higher standard, is incredibly heartening for non-Republicans. However, you can only be disappointed in someone if they can act better. When they don't anticipate getting what they want and lack the means to enforce their demands, people (especially women, many of whom are mothers) nag, they are irate because they are unable to persuade others to share their views on what is crucial and what needs to be done. She knows that he is fully aware of his terrible mistake and that major and unavoidable repercussions will follow. Cheney is not angry, and she is dissatisfied. Even if they disagree with Cheney on every significant point, some Democrats have indicated they'd want to see her run for president because she has somehow avoided tripping this wire. For many, their instincts indicate that they don't want to return to being ruled by a woman.