Posted on 10/25/2022 6:13:35 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Rep. Liz Cheney on Sunday appeared to rule out any live broadcast of former President Donald Trump’s appearance under oath before the House January 6 Committee.
In an appearance with “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, the Wyoming Republican — who will be leaving Congress in January after being blown out during her August primary by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman — claimed that the reason Trump would not be deposed live is that he would turn the proceedings into a sideshow.
“The committee treats this matter with great seriousness,” Cheney told Todd. “And we are going to proceed in terms of questioning the former president under oath.
“It may take multiple days, and it will be done with a level of rigor and discipline, and seriousness that it deserves. We are not going to allow the former president … He’s not going to turn this into a circus. This isn’t going to be, you know, his first debate against Joe Biden and the circus and the food fight that became. This is a far too serious set of issues,” Cheney said.
The committee voted unanimously last week to subpoena Trump, in order to compel his testimony under oath.
Some analysts took that to mean that the committee just doesn’t want the public to hear many of the former president’s answers regarding his activities on the day of the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
Joe Saunders at The Western Journal writes:
They also know just how flimsy the whole case is for their grandiosely named Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. They know that the game has been rigged from the beginning when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s selections for the committee and appointed Cheney and fellow turncoat Adam Kinzinger as “Republican” representatives.
They know that the committee has no substantive cross-examination, no adversarial system aimed at bringing out the truth. They know the whole thing is a sham, a showboat of a process that literally brought on a high-powered producer from the entertainment world of television to make its product more palatable to the American people.
And they know that a scenery-chewing performance by Donald Trump — himself a former reality television star — would not only be meeting them on their own terms, but he would also be doing it with the arguments at his back.
Cheney was brutally mocked by late-night Fox News host Greg Gutfeld after the committee voted to subpoena Trump. In his show monologue earlier this month, Gutfeld said that Cheney and the other committee members are simply focused on Trump because the Democrat-controlled Congress has no answers for the country’s problems, including inflation, rising crime, a chaotic southwestern border, and ongoing supply chain shortages.
“Just 25 days before the midterms, the Jan. 6th panel votes unanimously to subpoena Trump. That’s about as surprising as the final score at a Harlem Globetrotters game, and it’s about as spontaneous as Adam Schiff’s face. Does that make sense? No,” he said.
“And what a coincidence, it happens the same day the inflation number comes out, and it’s higher than Hunter Biden on free crack day. Crime is exploding like a can of Sprite left in a freezer too long,” he continued.
“The borders are as open as the West Wing’s windows when Joe forgets his Lactaid pills. Kids are getting dumber, and I have to walk over a drugged-out zombie just to get to work. ‘So why not? Let’s go after Trump,’ screams the Dems. This guy’s been in more fake trials than the cast of Law and Order,” Gutfeld said to laughs from the audience.
“But the hope is the news cycle will shift from Biden’s disasters to the orange monster who can make Adam Kinzinger cry like he’s cutting onions while his nuts are —-. Terrible,” he joked.
“So will this distraction overwhelm the public enough that they’ll forget it costs 100 bucks to fill up a tank of gas or 15 bucks for a pack of hot dogs? You heard right, Joy Behar’s lunch costs 15 bucks. Fifteen bucks is true, for a pack of dogs. Did someone blow up the Oscar Mayer pipeline, too?” he quipped. “Can’t the president tap into our tube steak reserves?”
Shut the hell up idiot.
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When is daddy Warbucks going to ax Joe and Hunter where the Billions came from, and why a VP for the first time in History demanded a Foreign Prosecutor be fired?
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Kinda like what they do in North Korea.
“The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the mid-17th century (c. 1641), and was composed of Privy Counsellors and common-law judges, to supplement the judicial activities of the common-law and equity courts in civil and criminal matters. The Star Chamber was originally established to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against socially and politically prominent people sufficiently powerful that ordinary courts might hesitate to convict them of their crimes. However, it became synonymous with social and political oppression through the arbitrary use and abuse of the power it wielded.
“In modern times, legal or administrative bodies with strict, arbitrary rulings, no ‘due process’ rights to those accused, and secretive proceedings are sometimes called ‘star chambers’ as a metaphor.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
“Many crimes which are now commonly prosecuted, such as attempt, conspiracy, criminal libel, and perjury, were originally developed by the Court of Star Chamber, along with its more common role of dealing with riots and sedition.”
“In 1641, the Long Parliament, led by John Pym and inflamed by the severe treatment of John Lilburne, as well as that of other religious dissenters such as William Prynne, Alexander Leighton, John Bastwick and Henry Burton, abolished the Star Chamber with the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.
“The gruesome punishments which the Star Chamber imposed were not forgotten, and were revived by King James II, prompting an article in the Bill of Rights of 1688 ‘That excessive Baile ought not to be required nor excessive Fines imposed nor cruell and unusuall Punishments inflicted’.”
The whole “committee “ is nothing but a circus. A bunch of self-righteous elites sitting there breaking wind for months.
She’s one of those people who practice brushing hair from their forehead and looking even more serious than they had looked moments before, then say something really, really ridiculous.
These people are known as progressives.
They suffer from permanently sprained wrists from all the hair brushing, which is my guess as to why so many progressive men are bald. Then they can just stare more intensely which may explain why most of them are slightly cross-eyed.
The odd thing is, they actually believe what they say. The problem is that nobody ever laughs out loud in their presence, the usual social cue to let people know they are blithering idiots. We should do more laughing, or at least loud snickering, in the presence of our self-appointed superiors. “You’re kidding, right? Or are you nuts?” should be something they hear every single day until it sinks in.
Naturally, she does. Anybody expect anything different?
Of course she doesn’t, she wont be able to lie about what was said.
Dims like saying “democracy dies in the dark” or something like that, don’t they?
She thinks she’s royalty.
She’s not.
Lez and her libtard sham show won’t let Trump speak unedited.
They’re petrified of Trump and the truth
Lez is a filthy coward and needs to go run and jump in her rathole
Can we please stop reporting everything the loser beotch has to say?
This sick witch seems determined to hogtie Trump from defending himself against their utterly fabricated litany of outright lies. She wants to cut off any avenue to getting the truth. She is truly sick.
Of course she does.
CANT STAND THE LIGHT AND THE TRUTH.
CHENEY is a LOSER.
Lez, Too late. It’s already a sideshow.
And by the way Lez, Congress does not have the constitutional authority to question the head of a co-equal branch of the federal government.
if you insist on having OUR president testify then we WANT to see it all, you stupid cow...
And they called Trump a coward.
The Committee has already been caught selectively editing testimony by others. They simply can’t be trusted to not do the same with President Trump.
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