Former President Donald Trump suggested that believes former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the co-chair of the controversial House Jan. 6 committee, should face prosecution for withholding evidence during her time on the panel.
“She should be prosecuted for what she has done to our country! She illegally destroyed the evidence. Unreal!!” he wrote on Truth Social.
He was responding to a Federalist article penned by former Trump aide Kash Patel in which he wrote that Ms. Cheney and the Jan. 6 committee suppressed evidence about his activity on and before Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Patel noted that the panel did not include evidence that President Trump authorized the deployment of National Guard troops during the Capitol breach.
That article came on the heels of a House Republican-released report last week that found that pieces of evidence and testimony that favored the former president was not included in the Jan. 6 committee’s final report. They also wrote that a key witness’s third-hand claims about President Trump were disputed by the Secret Service driver involved in the alleged incident.
On social media, Ms. Cheney wrote that President Trump’s comments “are lies” and that he has “had all the grand jury [and Jan. 6] transcripts for many months.” She added, “You’re trying to halt your 1/6 trial because your VP, WH counsel, WH aides, campaign & DOJ officials etc. will testify against you. You’re afraid of the truth and you should be.”
The former congresswoman—who lost her Wyoming House primary in 2022 by 40 percentage points—was referring to four felony charges against the former president over alleged efforts by him to overturn the 2020 election.
The trial has been delayed as his lawyers have submitted a petition to the Supreme Court arguing that his activity after the election fall under presidential immunity, saying he should not be prosecuted because he was working under his capacity as commander-in-chief.
On Monday, President Trump also asked whether former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson would be prosecuted after a recent report cast doubt on her claims she made about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach.
Last week, a report released by House Republicans found that a Secret Service agent who was transporting the former president on the day refuted Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony that President Trump attempted to grab the wheel of the vehicle.
The agent, whose name hasn’t been released to the public, told a House panel that he “did not see him reach,” adding that President Trump “never grabbed the steering wheel,” the agent said, according to a transcript of what he said. “I didn’t see him lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.”
The testimony was given to the Democrat-dominated Jan. 6 select committee convened to investigate the Capitol breach during the previous Congress, but the transcript wasn’t released by the committee. Quotes from the testimony were included in last week’s Republican-commissioned report.
“Our great Secret Service has totally CRUSHED Cassidy Hutchinson’s (who I barely knew) made up (FAKE!) stories about me roughing up Secret Service Agents from the back seat of the Beast (Limo),” the former president wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday, responding to the new report.
“Has she now changed her testimony? Will she be prosecuted for what she did and said? What about the Unselect J6 Committee. They destroyed almost everything, including real evidence and findings. What’s going to happen with them – Serious crimes have been committed?” he asked on the social media platform.
Ms. Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified to the panel in her fourth interview, in 2022, that she was told by Anthony Ornato, another Secret Service agent, that he was informed by a fellow agent that President Trump attempted to grab the steering wheel.
“Tony said something to the effect of, ‘did you hear what [expletive] happened?’” Ms. Hutchinson testified on June 20, 2022. Mr. Ornato then “retold the story,” she said. According to that story, when President Trump entered the vehicle—which Ms. Hutchinson said was the presidential vehicle known as the Beast—after his speech at the Ellipse, he said he wanted to travel to the Capitol.
The driver, who clarified that it was an SUV and not the Beast, according to the transcript, did say that President Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, corroborating at least one claim made by Ms. Hutchinson.
But Republicans said in the report that much of her story about the former president was was false.
“Despite the driver of the president’s SUV testifying under oath that the Hutchinson story was false, the select committee chose to validate and promote Hutchinson’s version of the story as fact. The select committee hid the driver’s full testimony and only favorably mentioned his testimony in its final report, it did not release the full transcript,” the House Republicans said.
Since the release of the report, Ms. Hutchinson has not issued a public statement on the matter. Ms. Hutchinson’s lawyer has not responded to a previous Epoch Times request for comment.
The treasonous RINO, Democrat Liz Cheney should be charged and prosecuted for a multiple of charges.
BUT as we have all seen Democrats are NOT held accountable for their crimes, especially if they are female criminal Democrats like “crooked Hil-Liar-y Clinton, Louis Learner, Fani Willis, Liz Cheney, etc.
The true beginning of the illegal LAWFARE, fake claims against a sitting non-establishment owned President made by Corrupted accusers, mendacious Liberal Media, bought and paid for D,A,s, Biden directed invasions of Mar A Lago to accuse Trump of the very mishandling of top secret purloined documents he knows he was guilty of. Couched in deceptive unconstitutional LAWFARE that is the true threat to American democracy, the truth of course revealed too late to save us from 4 years of socialist government destruction, debt and economic ruin. Liz lost her election because not even a corrupt media could cover the obvious crimes,,,now she should be financially defunded, just like what they are trying to do to Trump, but know in their own hearts they themselves are guilty and deserving of.
Liz CHENY-DICK CHENY-” A Acorn doesn’t fall far from the TREE.” { RINOS ) Author Unknown.
THEY SHOULD be, but like you said, DEMS seem to always skate. JUST LOOK At Clinton and the Hur report… DEMS DESTROYING evidence, and outright lying about it.. AND NOTHING.
Not one criminal charge…
If we locked up every RINO & Leftist Criminal in Washington, our jails would be overflowing.
AS they should be !
THEN start charging them with treason, since that is imo what their activities count as.. AND LAST i looked that carried only ONE Punishment, not jail time..
Although pudding face Lis Chaney should be prosecuted the globalist ***** won’t be, for the simply reason the DOJ is unjust and the corrupted courts would produce a judge that will slap her wrist even if she were to be prosecuted!
Liz Cheney and her Democrat cohorts are guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury. It is common practice these day for Democrats and the left to ignore the law and engage in judicial anarchy. This is all made possible by a corrupt justice department, a bureaucracy controlled by Democrats, and left-wing activist judges who see no problem convicting people based on politics.
Two-Tiered Justice System-” FOR THEE, but NOT FOR ME.”
YET WHERE is the supposed Dept of justice, bringing charges OF DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE etc??
No where to be found.
The dems, left and msm can lie, cheat, commit crimes, spew misinformation say and do whatever they want, all because the gop, nrcc, republicans do next to nothing to hold them accountable. All they actually do is send surveys with the same questions and primary goal is just asking for a donation. IMO