Liz Cheney tells Republicans defending rioters: ‘When Trump is gone, your dishonour will remain’
The January 6 House select committee’s first prime-time hearing wrapped up after two hours of testimony on Thursday. The hearing included bombshell revelations introduced by Reps Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney.
Former President Donald Trump expressed his rage after the committee played excerpts of interviews with his former Attorney General Bill Barr, daughter Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Mr Trump called Mr Barr “weak” and a “coward” after the former top law enforcement official told the House panel that he believed Mr Trump’s false claims of a stolen election to be “bulls***”.
But the former president stayed quiet regarding the testimony of his daughter. Ms Trump, one of her father’s most trusted advisors, told the panel that she didn’t think the 2020 election was stolen and that she respects Mr Barr.
“Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonour will remain,” Ms Cheney said, noting how a number of Republican lawmakers sought pardons from Mr Trump.
Trump rages Ivanka was ‘checked out’ before 2020 election
Donald Trump has said his daughter Ivanka had “checked out” before the 2020 election after she was used in the evidence against him during the January 6 House Committee hearing.
The House panel played parts of their interview with Mr Barr on Thursday night. Mr Barr said that Mr Trump’s false claims of fraud were “bulls***” and that he didn’t want to be “a part of it”.
Ms Trump, one of her father’s most trusted advisors, told the panel that she didn’t think the 2020 election was stolen.
She said that what Mr Barr told her about the election changed her point of view. “It affected my perspective,” she told the committee. “I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said.”
“Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results,” Mr Trump claimed on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday morning. “She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General (he sucked!).”
Gustaf Kilander10 June 2022 14:06
Arizona Republican compares January 6 hearings to tortillas
Gustaf Kilander10 June 2022 13:30
‘Your dishonour will remain,’ Cheney says to GOP colleagues who asked Trump for pardons
Rep Liz Cheney, vice-chair of the select committee investigating the 6 January attack on Congress, unleashed on her own party during the panel’s first hearing on Thursday.
“Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” Ms Cheney said.
She was referring to a number of Republican lawmakers who sought pardons from President Trump over the 6 January violence.
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Sravasti Dasgupta10 June 2022 12:30
Sean Hannity wildly claims Jan 6 hearing makes Trump ‘look good’
Fox News host Sean Hannity had a surprising analysis of Thursday’s primetime hearing hosted by the select committee investigating January 6 after it ended.
“This is now about a security failure of incredible magnitude and they don’t even seem to want to talk about it. The one person that looks good is Donald Trump,” said Mr Hannity during a discussion with right-wing journalist John Solomon.
Mr Hannity’s own text messages to the White House and others in the former president’s orbit before, during, and after the riot have become evidence that the committee is using to form its narrative.
Sravasti Dasgupta10 June 2022 11:30
Ivanka Trump says election was not stolen
Thursday’s January 6 House select committee hearing opened with bombshell video footage that showed…