Liz Cheney lashed out at Rep. Loudermilk on Tuesday after he referred the previous lawmaker for legal investigation.
The Committee on Home Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second report on the occasions surrounding January 6 as properly his investigation into the weaponized J6 Committee on Tuesday.
“This interim report reveals that there was not only one single trigger for what occurred on the U.S. Capitol on January 6; however it was a sequence of intelligence, safety, and management failures at a number of ranges and quite a few entities,” Loudermilk mentioned.
Loudermilk’s report outlined legal suggestions towards J6 Committee co-chair Liz Cheney for witness tampering primarily based on her communication with J6 ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson.
The Committee’s High Findings:
1. Former Consultant Liz Cheney colluded with “star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson with out Hutchinson’s legal professional’s data.
2. Former Consultant Liz Cheney needs to be investigated for potential legal witness tampering primarily based on the brand new details about her communication.
3. Cassidy Hutchinson’s most outrageous claims lacked any proof, and the Choose Committee had data that her claims had been false once they publicly promoted her.
- President Trump didn’t assault his Secret Service Element at any time on January 6.
- President Trump didn’t have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6.
- Cassidy Hutchinson falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten notice for President Trump on January 6.
- Consultant Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson baselessly tried to disbar Hutchinson’s former legal professional.
4. Former Consultant Liz Cheney used the January 6 Choose Committee as a software to assault President Trump, at the price of investigative integrity and Capitol safety.
5. The January 6 Choose Committee was improperly constituted and lacked authority.
6. The January 6 Choose Committee uncared for or withheld proof from its Remaining Report and deleted voluminous data it ought to have preserved.
7. The Division of Protection scapegoated the Washington D.C. Nationwide Guard to distract blame from senior management.
Liz Cheney lashed out at Rep. Loudermilk in response to his January 6 “interim report.”
“January sixth confirmed Donald Trump for who’s [sic] actually is – a merciless and vindictive man who allowed violent assaults to proceed towards our Capitol and regulation enforcement officers whereas he watched tv and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to face down and go away,” Cheney mentioned in an announcement posted to BlueSky.
She continued, “The January sixth Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of republican witnesses, together with most of the most senior officers from Trump’s personal White Home, marketing campaign and Administration. All of this testimony was painstakingly set out within the hundreds of pages of transcripts, made public together with a extremely detailed and meticulously sourced 800 web page report. The Division of Justice carried out its personal unbiased investigation and reached the identical elementary conclusions.”
Cheney blasted Loudermilk and accused him of mendacity in his interim report.
“Now, Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ deliberately disregards the reality and the Choose Committee’s super weight of proof, and as an alternative fabricated lies and defamatory allegations in an try and cowl up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations don’t mirror a evaluate of the particular proof, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the reality,” Cheney mentioned.
“No respected lawyer, legislator or decide would take this significantly,” she added.
See under for my assertion in response to Chairman Loudermilk’s “Interim Report”:
— Liz Cheney (@lizcheney.bsky.social) December 17, 2024 at 11:36 AM
