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.
Uh, Sarah,
There were artillery rounds found in Iraq with bugs and gas in them. I believe there was also yellowcake found there.
And Tommy Franks (think it was him) reported seeing military convoys transporting weapons across the border into Syria about 3 days before the shooting started.
It was not a lie. You may not think it was a sufficient reason to go into Iraq, but it was not a lie.
People with that much hate and bitterness in their hearts have a tendency toward illness.
I think there is an extra vowel in there.
(good catch, btw ;^))
JFK would be Hard-Right today.
There they go again.
I’m sure Trump is shaking in his boots.
What witnesses?
Everything he said was recorded.
Formed tongue Lizard Cheney is a psycho. She needs a padded cell and a gag fast. She also set up her psycho-buddy Schiff for perjury/ lying charges for what he said on his congressional committee as well as at press conferences re his “evidence” of Russian-Trump collusion.
“Why doesn’t the Republican leadership shut her up?”
Because they agree with her.
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The left rein of terror is about to be dismantled.
Their old ways are being exposed and voted out.
The light of Trump shown on Washington, brought the dirt to the surface.
And white supremacy they keep talking about..
Its a dem party promising to fix the schools and living conditions of minorities.. for years.
And minorities voting dem for years, with the same outcome.. nothing fixed..and blaming the race that left the dim dems.
Trump could be held responsible for any falsehoods exchanged with the panel??
UNLIKE ANY EFFIN’ DEMOCRAT! YES, I’M YELLING!!!!!!
To the RATs the Jan 6 event is what the Reichstag fire was to the Nazis. A great opportunity for blind revenge.
I am ashamed I ever voted for people named Bush and Cheney. What awful scum they turned out to be. Every last one of them.
I wish Liz Cheney’s husband were Henry the VIII. Traitorous bitch!!!!
So she has to talk to the military procecutor about those fuzzy Chinese dealings at her trial at Gitmo for treason along with all those dems
Yep. Bears repeating.
Heavy caliber hunting?
Trump is one of the few selected men to be elected President of the United States. Its a very small club.
Cheney as an obscure warmongering member of the House of Representatives is a “dime a dozen” and a nobody.
Trump is in the history books for the next 300 years, Cheney will be gone in a year with barely a mention.
Good Riddance.
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