Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) blasted President Trump for false statements he made concerning the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, calling them a “reminder that neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age.”
Cheney’s feedback got here after Trump gave a speech following his Inaugural handle to a crowd of supporters gathered on the Capitol who have been unable to take a seat within the corridor the place he was sworn in.
In that speech, Trump repeated numerous false claims concerning the committee, once more accusing them of deleting proof. The committee’s ultimate report, depositions and different supplies can be found on a public web site.
“Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor Center today were a reminder that neither lies nor the liar who tells them get better with age. The Select Committee evidence is available on multiple websites and, as a criminal defendant, Donald Trump has had access to all the transcripts for years,” Cheney, the panel’s vice chair, wrote on X.
“Remember Trump’s character: He sat in his dining room watching on television as his supporters attacked our Capitol and brutally assaulted law enforcement. For hours, he refused to instruct the mob to leave. The truth will never change.”
Throughout the ad-libbed speech, Trump spent ample time ranting about former President Biden’s pardon of the 9 members of the panel.
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“Why are we helping some of these people? Why are we helping Liz Cheney? She’s a disaster – she’s a crying luntaic,” he stated, happening to name former Rep. Adam Kinziner (R-In poor health.) a “super cryer” and blame the assault that day on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
Trump then complained the panel “destroyed and deleted all of that information.”
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has beforehand stated the panel retained all info it was legally required to retain. Whereas they retained all depositions and witness testimony, they didn’t retain video recordings of these not used within the hearings.
Cheney and Thompson thanked Biden Monday for the preemptive pardon, even because the members stated they’d not accomplished something prison by investigating Trump.
“We express our gratitude to President Biden for recognizing that we and our families have been continuously targeted not only with harassment, lies and threats of criminal violence, but also with specific threats of criminal prosecution and imprisonment by members of the incoming administration, simply for doing our jobs and upholding our oaths of office. We have been pardoned today not for breaking the law but for upholding it,” the 2 stated in a press release.
