Posted on 07/12/2022 4:24:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, said at the panel's hearing Tuesday that former President Donald Trump attempted to contact a witness who has not yet been publicly identified.
"After our last hearing, President Trump tried to call a witness in our investigation, a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings," the Wyoming Republican said at the conclusion of the hearing, which focused on ties between Trump and extremist groups that stormed the US Capitol. "That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. Their lawyer alerted us. And this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice."
As notable as Cheney's revelation is, she also raised the possibility that the incident could prompt interest from Justice Department prosecutors. The comments were the first time the committee has explicitly described providing information to the DOJ that they discovered during their probe.
Attempting to call a witness does not necessarily rise to witness tampering on its own, and it's unclear what if anything the Justice Department would do in response to Cheney's comments.
However, it's not the first public suggestion of witness tampering the committee has made. Previously, the committee noted two incidents where their star witness, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, received messages about being loyal to Trump.
Those, however, weren't from Trump himself -- and Trump's personal involvement raises the stakes if the message was intended to impact a witness' testimony
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(((YAWN))) Shut up Lizard Queen
Molehill <<< Mountain
Anybody check the straw supply in the Capitol?
Oh Puleeeeze.
Cheney is pure scum and her own constituents hate her.
A phone call? That wasn’t answered so there was no discussion.
What a crock of nothing.
Exactly. There’s no such as “witness tampering” because this isn’t a trial. Or it is, in which case the whole committee is acting violation of the Constitution and is trying in effect to pass a bill of attainder.
where’s Vindman listening in when they really needed him ...
If the witness has not yet been publicly identified, then what are they trying to imply?
The House of Representatives January 6th inquisition has no criminal justice authority.
The only power they have is to investigate legislative issues.
I can’t wait until Lizzie runs for President show she can learn just how much people hate her.
Liz Cheney orchestrated the Russian collusion hoax that’s why she’s trying to destroy Trump
Manufacture an alleged crime.
I sincerely hope that if Republicans retake the House, with a large contingent of MAGA, that this “woman” and her family have their dealings put under a microscope.
another nothingburger
Anyone see the CNN man on the Street interviews? NewMax showed them and it was hysterical. Everyone they interviewed said they didn’t care, it’s not important.
Took 4 people to write this?
sounds like made up crap because they’re desperate
This is what happens when you piss of a deranged menopausal female with delusions of grandeur. So Trump “attempted” to call a “witness” who hasn’t been a witness, for a hearing which is not a trial and for which there is no meaning to “tampering.”
If the “witness” wasn’t identified, how could anyone know they were talking to a witness?
Trump is going to be frogmarched by the midterms, and will be ineligible to run in 2024.
The Dems did something similar to Tom DeLay and Ted Stevens, CWII starts soon ...
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