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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Omg. I hope she’s voted out in November.
The DOJ was already alerted. So her talking about it shows just how much of a b she is.
If the Committee hasn’t identified this witness how is Trump supposed to know they’re a witness?
Every day they let us know that they have nothing.
Why are you attacking FReepers? Everyone was lied to about WMD’s by Bush/Cheney.
So what. The panel is a joke and has no standing. It’s not a trial. Lol
So? It’s a free country
she won’t be out of a job for good until Jan, 2023
“I can’t wait until Lizzie runs for President show she can learn just how much people hate her.”
Yup. If she comes anywhere near FL, I’ll drive there and throw tomatoes.
In Lying Lizzy’s fantasies.
Everything they have done will not be admissible to a court of law, it’s all bogus and hearsay stuff. Trump’s lawyers will rip this apart and get a directed verdict, with prejudice if it goes that far.
Word is Cassidy has gone dark, wonder where she is? If she thinks whatever deal she made with the Democrats will stand then she isn’t very smart.
“Everyone was lied to about WMD’s by Bush/Cheney.”
Not true. There were plenty of observers who were saying the WMDs couldn’t be found. Hans Blix of the UN weapons inspection team was in Iraq and reported he couldn’t find any. Conservatives chose to ridicule him and to believe Cheney instead. Ridicule Blix all you want - he wasn’t lying. His warnings turned out to be true.
I quit reading at Liz.
I believe we do see God’s justice all the time through we the people. It’s not always obvious and sometimes a small thing makes a big thing possible.
I believe Lizard couldn’t locate Casper on a map with a red circle around it..
Don’t insult Miss Piggy, she is more beautiful, smart and could a better job in Wyoming than Liz...
Why waste perfectly good tomatoes? Let them get overripe to throw...
Believe what you want, but why are you attacking FReepers?
lol AGAIN not illegal to call someone, even if they are testifying before congress.
They keep throwing all these things out there as if they are illegal, and it is NOT.
Trump is not charged with a crime, how can he tamper with a witness to a crime he isn’t charged with?
LMAO
I've always felt that Cheney was arrogant and was put off by that. Liz is just an insufferable entitled bore.
“Dick Cheney and George Bush we’re once the toast of Free Republic. To criticize them meant getting flamed or banned. To criticize their Iraq war - the way Trump does - was a bannable offense.”
Hey rintindumbdumb,
DeSantis/Cheney 2024
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Make DC happy again.
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