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.
Have been since they swore in the ineligible Kenyan from Indonesia.
That’s when we left the rails of the Constitution.
There’s no such thing as “Republican”, anymore.
They’re just Assistant DemonKKKrats.
LOL
This nasty witch is merely trying to replay the impeachment proceedings that the democrats have used against Trump for years. And the language she employs, warning of dire consequences for Trump before the dreadful investigative committee she chairs, reveals the extreme desire she has to be a player. She has all the power, she fancies. But, this time next year, after she has faced the voters, she will be over. Thankfully.
Exactly!
It’s stuff like this that has cause me to despise them as I do.
Hey Liz, see you next Tuesday.
Because they are all just like her, but since Liz comes from a wealthy family she doesn't need the gig to maintain her lifestyle....
Good Lord these people have absolutely NO LIFE..meanwhile Cheney, Id love to see her testify on the BIG LIE about wmd’s in Iraq..yeah know the LIE that led to I dont know, more than 4,000 dead members of our military
The strategy is to set out a bunch of perjury traps.
The best response to this game is not to play.
They are much more like her than us.
Claims of election fraud, in and of themselves, do not constitute incitement of violence.
Pipe down Liz, nobody’s listening to your tripe. You cannot touch DJT, you know it, and it kills you.
Why is Trump culpable for the FBI attack on the Capital?
She’s apparently suggesting he could be prosecuted for expressing an opinion. She’s out of her mind.
I do not understand why anyone hasn't simply -- with assistance of GOP Rep Jim Jordan, etc -- state the committee is illegal and has no jurisidiction, and they will not respons to any inquiries or subpeonoas from it until it follows House rules as required.
Nonsense, you post.
But, absolutely, we do have some among us who we need to vote off the island.
RINOs are the enemy of America. Purge the GOP of the RINO traitors in the 2022 primaries and the GOP will be just fine.
It’s not a false claim. Now is a good time to lay out the evidence for all to see. Force them to respond to it.
Fear talking. Squid ink in the water.
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