It’s clear as day that Liz Cheney, a former member of the biased January 6 Committee, is trying to dodge accountability for allegedly destroying 117 files from the panel. This is just another example of the crooks on the left (that includes the RINOS too) thinking they can get away with anything.
President-elect Donald Trump rightly called out members of this partisan panel on Sunday for destroying evidence that could have cleared him of any wrongdoing. It’s about time someone stood up to these political games.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), leading the House Administration Committee’s oversight investigation, revealed in January that forensic investigators found 117 files missing, likely deleted or encrypted by committee members. The Democrats are clearly trying to hide something.
“It’s obvious that [the J6 committee] went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation,” Loudermilk told Fox News. “It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules.”
In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump stated that committee members should face jail time for their actions. It’s about time someone held them accountable.
“Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps.” Trump was referring to committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.”
“Just remember, the unselect committee – a year and a half of sworn testimony, and after getting all of the testimony, they deleted it, wait, and they destroyed almost everything,” Trump explained. “There’s nothing left. It’s unprecedented, and they deny you do that. In a civil case, you go to jail.”
Cheney, who enriched herself in Congress before leaving in defeat, had the audacity to say, “Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic,” the New York Times reported.
“Donald Trump knows his claims about the select committee are ridiculous and false, as has been detailed extensively, including by Chairman Thompson,” she continued.
Cheney claimed, “There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis for what Donald Trump is suggesting — a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee — and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct.”
Trump suggested that “maybe” President Joe Biden should preemptively pardon Cheney and others from the committee. Of course, Democrats and their media allies are pushing for this pardon. “Biden can give them a pardon if he wants to,” Trump told NBC News’s Kristen Welker. “And maybe he should.”
“So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?” Welker asked Trump.
“Anybody who voted in favor –” Trump replied.
“Are you going to direct your FBI director and your attorney general to send them to jail?” she followed up.
“Not at all,” Trump said. “I think that they’ll have to look at that. … They can do whatever they want.”