President-elect Trump expressed concerns about potential legal challenges for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) following a recent recommendation from House Republicans for a criminal investigation into her involvement in the House panel examining the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
In a post on Truth Social early Wednesday, Trump noted, “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that ‘numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.’”
Cheney dismisses GOP accusations as defamatory and baseless
Additionally, he commended Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who leads the Committee on House Administration’s Oversight Subcommittee. This commentary came shortly after the subcommittee published a 128-page interim report that criticized what Republicans deemed the “failures and politicization” of the House January 6 committee, claiming the now-disbanded group unfairly implicated Trump in the Capitol riot and was improperly constituted.
The report stated, “Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar Select Committee was a political weapon with a singular focus to deceive the public into blaming President Trump for the violence on January 6 and to tarnish the legacy of his first Presidency.”
Furthermore, the committee urged the FBI to conclude its investigation into Cheney, accusing the former No. 3 House Republican of witness tampering by contacting former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. As one of Trump’s most prominent critics since the 2020 election, Cheney responded strongly against the report, labeling it as filled with “lies” and “defamatory allegations.”
In her statement, she said, “Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”
She further asserted, “Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator, or judge would take this seriously.”
Republican lawmakers also accused the January 6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), of deleting evidence it had collected. However, members of the panel have countered these claims, asserting that they retained all legally required evidence and shared it publicly on a government website.
