Liz Cheney Seems To Be Trying To Get Trump Criminally Charged For 1/6

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) chose her words cautiously and intentionally portion laying retired the lawsuit for perchance criminally charging Trump for 1/6.

Video of 1/6 Committee Vice-Chair Cheney connected CBS’s  Face The Nation:

Rep. Liz Cheney makes the lawsuit for criminally charging Trump, "Trump is apt again this week to marque the aforesaid mendacious claims astir the predetermination that helium knows to beryllium mendacious and the aforesaid mendacious claims astir the predetermination that helium knows caused unit connected January 6th." pic.twitter.com/kz0AuW0ZTt

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 2, 2022

Transcript via CBS’s Face The Nation:

MARGARET BRENNAN: We cognize Democrats are readying a vigil. We cognize the erstwhile president is readying a quality conference. Are you acrophobic astir the state being astatine hazard of governmental unit this week and successful the years ahead?

REP. CHENEY: Look, I deliberation that if- if what helium has been saying since helium near bureau is immoderate indication, erstwhile President Trump is apt again this week to marque the aforesaid mendacious claims astir the predetermination that helium knows to beryllium mendacious and the aforesaid mendacious claims astir the predetermination that helium knows caused unit connected Jan 6. I deliberation that it is so precise concerning, fixed what we cognize happened successful the pb up to the sixth and what the committee is uncovering retired astir the events of that day. But I deliberation that it- it’s not surprising. But again, helium knows these claims caused unit and we’ve seen present radical who were successful the Capitol, radical who’ve been arrested due to the fact that of their activities connected that day, they themselves person told america successful tribunal filings, they’ve told america connected societal media, we’ve seen it connected videos; that they were present due to the fact that Donald Trump told them to beryllium here. And so, he’s very- he’s doing this property league connected the sixth. Again, if helium makes those aforesaid claims, he’s doing it with implicit knowing and cognition of- of what those claims person caused successful the past.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’ve raised successful the past the anticipation of transgression culpability for the president. Is that the statement presumption of the committee?

REP. CHENEY: Look, the committee is evidently going to travel the facts wherever they lead. We’ve made tremendous progress. We person had now- if you conscionable deliberation about, for example, what we cognize present astir what the erstwhile president was doing connected the 6th portion the onslaught was underway. The committee has firsthand grounds that President Trump was sitting successful the eating country adjacent to the Oval Office, watching connected tv arsenic the Capitol was assaulted arsenic the unit occurred. We cognize that that is intelligibly a ultimate dereliction of duty. One of the things that the committee is looking astatine from the position of our legislative intent is whether we request enhanced penalties for that benignant of dereliction of duty. But we’ve surely ne'er seen thing similar that arsenic a federation before.

Rep. Cheney Is Arguing That Trump’s Conduct On 1/6 Was Criminal

Rep. Cheney has utilized the connection successful a national statute that makes it a transgression to obstruct, influence, oregon impede an authoritative proceeding. It is the aforesaid statute that has been utilized to complaint 1/6 insurrectionists, and it on with dereliction of work are some intelligibly being examined by the committee for a imaginable Trump transgression referral.

It is casual to spot wherefore Trump and the GOP privation Liz Cheney gone due to the fact that she is 1 of the fewer Republicans to marque a lawsuit for criminally charging the erstwhile president.