Posted on 12/01/2021 5:43:12 PM PST by RandFan
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, suggested Wednesday that former President Trump could be held responsible for any falsehoods exchanged with the panel.
“President Trump continues to make the same false claims about a stolen election with which he has misled millions of Americans. These are the same claims he knows provoked violence in the past. He has recently suggested that he wants to debate members of this committee,” Cheney said.
“This committee's investigation into the violent assault on our Capitol on January 6 is not a game. When this committee convenes hearings, witnesses will be called to testify under oath. Any communications Mr. Trump has with this committee will be under oath. And if he persists in lying then he will be accountable under the laws of this great nation and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks.”
Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has previously said “no one is off limits” when asked if the committee may eventually subpoena Trump.
Cheney’s comments came at a business meeting where the panel forwarded its second referral for criminal contempt to the full House, in this case for Jeffrey Clark, a former DOJ official who was central to Trump’s efforts to pressure the department to act on his baseless claims of voter fraud.
If Trump, like Clark, failed to appear before the committee following a subpoena, a contempt report would detail all the exchanges between him and his attorneys and committee staff. If he appeared, he could face charges if he lied to congressional investigators. It’s the same charge his confidant Roger Stone, now also subpoenaed by the committee, faced before being pardoned by Trump.
Third world countries go after former leaders. Guess where we are now.
Liz, shut your yap.
We’re in Banana Republic territory.
Trump should simply say this: millions upon millions of Americans simply do not believe the globalist narrative about any given subject, and the 2020 election is just one example of that. I plan to discuss all the other ones with whoever the globalists nominate. If you want to believe that ten million votes for Joe Biden would all arrive in big cities at roughly the same moment in time, knock yourselves out. Don’t expect most Americans to believe it. Because they don’t.
The Shill
didnt they get outed by the podesta emails?
they are dem operatives
I like the way that man thinks.
You have to appear before you can assert 5th amendment privilege.
Democrat scum will indict Trump - for a show trial in 2024.
We have yet to grasp just how evil Democrats have become.
Welcome to the Leftist cesspool, Lizzie.
You’ll be useful for them through to the 2022 elections, or maybe even through 2024, but that’s doubtful.
Then what? Oh, great, your legacy is to claim that anyone stating something you disagree with is intrinsically a liar and under oath a perjurer? You’d better hope they don’t use that against you when you’re no longer useful to them. (You’ll still be an idiot, just not a useful one.)
I wish nothing but the worst for this evil wench.
Maybe she goes hunting with her dad during the holidays?
Three Peach Fo Fi
Rebecca who?
Bush League Republicans must become extinct.
She thinks she’s making a name for herself.
She’s right. She just has no idea how much she is despised.
Trump did not organize an attack on the Capital Building.
There’s simply no way Trump could think he would benefit
in any way from an invasion of the Capital Building.
I mean, there has to be some glimmer of how it would work.
It would require him returning to the White House as CIC.
Who has advanced that master plan?
These people are idiots.
Cheney is a fascist.
One more thing, the election was stolen.
“ Why doesn’t the Republican leadership shut her up?”
Because she speaks for them, saying what they don’t dare to.
Lizzy - your self-inflated importance reeks of vindictiveness of ‘the outsider’ pulling back the curtain rather than genuflecting.
If anyone has standing for ability to tell Congress to get lost it is President Trump with Article 2 Separation of Powers of co-equal branches of government.
Liz you blind idiot.
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