Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R) promotes her work on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol during a debate with other Republicans running for her seat in Congress ahead of the August primary.
“I think there’s absolutely no question that what we saw happen on January 6th was clearly an attempt to delay the counting of electoral votes,” Cheney said. “Anyone who has been there understands the violence that was involved.”
Cheney is one of two Republican members of the House panel on Jan. 6 and has been outspoken in her opposition to former President Trump, who she and her fellow panel members say has been at the center of efforts to retain power. led directly to a violent riot that day.
The Jan. 6 panel, including Cheney, has been in the spotlight as it held a series of public hearings this month to lay out its case against the former president.
Cheney appeared to call out Trump-backed candidate Harriet Hageman for her stance on the Jan. 6 riots and the investigations into them, saying, “Frankly, I’m amazed that one of my opponents on stage, who is a member of the Wyoming Bar Association, which I swear, because many of us on this stage have the Constitution will be in a position where it suggests that somehow what happened on January 6th was justified or that somehow what happened that day, people have right to ignore the decisions of the courts’.
She added: “We are actually a nation of laws. And we are a nation of laws only if we protect our constitutional republic.
Hageman, who appeared at a Trump rally in Casper, Wyo., last month, joined the former president in dismissing Cheney as a “RINO” or “Republican in name only.”
“The Republican Party has a long and storied history of embracing conservative values that I strongly believe in,” Cheney said in the debate. “But we are now adopting a cult of personality and I will not be a part of that and I will always stand by my oath and stand for the truth.”
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Cheney specified that Trump had “lied to the American people” according to testimony from various witnesses heard during the committee’s Jan. 6 hearings, which she emphasized were “mostly, maybe entirely” connected to the Republican Party.
Cheney also challenged Hageman on whether she thought the 2020 election was “stolen,” saying she didn’t believe her opponent could properly claim it wasn’t stolen because she was “totally beholden to Donald Trump “.
“We have to be honest, we have to be honest — especially elected officials, public servants owe it to the people that we represent,” Cheney said.
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