Jan 6 Committee Co-Chair Liz Cheney Releases Statement Threatening Donald Trump With Legal Action For Any Election ‘Lies’ He Might Tell During Hearings

A statement read out by Representative Liz Cheney, Republican co-chair of the Wyoming Republican Party on the House Committee on January 6, is being seen by some as a threat to take legal action against the former President. President Donald Trump if his testimony is found to be dishonest.

Trump “recently suggested that he wanted to debate the members of this committee. The committee’s investigation into the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6 is not a game,” Cheney said during a committee hearing this week, according to a video clip posted online.

“When this committee convenes hearings, witnesses will be called to testify under oath. Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee will be sworn in,” she added.

“And if he continues to lie after that, he will be held accountable to the laws of this great nation and subject to criminal penalties for every untruth he says,” Cheney said. speak.

“President Trump continues to make the same false claims about a stolen election that he misled millions of Americans,” she added.

“Cheney’s comments came at a business meeting, where the panel forwarded a second introduction of contempt of crime to the full House of Representatives, in this case to Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is central to Trump’s efforts to pressure the department for his baseless actions. statements about voter fraud,” Hill noted.

Trump has frequently suggested that the committee has a lot of political opponents, and deliberately so.

“It was interesting to watch the Opt Out Committee go after the man at the Department of Justice who thought the Election was BIG, but didn’t go after those who were INSTANT. Just look at the numbers where Fake News does everything NOT reporting. They are overwhelming! ” he said in a statement last month.

“The Unelected Committee itself is rigid, made up of never-Trumpers, enemies of the Republican Party, and two disgraced RINOs, Cheney and Kinzinger, who cannot be elected as ‘people’. catch dogs’ in their county. Kinzinger has quit his job! ” he added.

Trump has also frequently accused the 2020 election of being “rigged” against him, although he has not presented any evidence to support his claims.

More recently, however, he and his representatives have pointed to changes made to electoral laws in key states in the months leading up to an election to include mass mail-in voting. to adapt to the pandemic.

The legal lawsuits Trump filed after the election allege those changes were unconstitutional because they were not implemented by state legislatures.

As for Cheney, she and Trump have often clashed, with the former president now supporting a major challenge ahead of next year’s GOP primaries.

In a statement in September, Trump said he was supporting Wyoming’s attorney, Harriet Hageman, who he said was “against Cheney more warmly and disloyal to the Republican Party.”

“Harriet is the fourth generation daughter of Wyoming, a very successful attorney, and has the support and respect of a truly great United States Senator, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming,” Trump continued.

“Harriet Hageman adores the Great State of Wyoming, is strong on Crime and Borders, strongly supports the Second Amendment, loves the Army and our vets, and will fight for Integrity. in Elections and Energy Independence (which [President Joe] Biden gave up),” he added.

“Unlike RINO Liz Cheney, Harriet is on America First. Harriet has my Full and Total endorsement of the Democratic Party’s number one audio purveyor, Liz Cheney. Let’s Make America Great Again! ‘ concluded the former president.