The day after former Wyoming ‘Republican’ Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris for president, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) delivered a scathing response.
During a speech in North Carolina, Cheney claimed she was a “conservative” despite backing the far-left candidacy of Harris, while also saying she cared more about the Constitution than seeing the head of her own party, Trump, back in the White House. “I think it is crucially important for people to recognize, not only is what I just said about the danger that Trump poses something that should prevent people from voting for him, but I don’t believe that we have the luxury of writing in candidates’ names, particularly in swing states,” Cheney said in remarks reported by Revolver. “And as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.”
Vance said while speaking at a Turning Points USA conference: The next presidency of Donald Trump will make sure people like Liz Cheney are laughed out of the Oval Office instead of rewarded. This is a person whose entire career has been about sending other people’s children to fight and die for her military conflicts and her ridiculous ideas that somehow we were going to turn Afghanistan into a thriving liberal democracy and for that, Liz Cheney was willing to kill thousands of her children — Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney make interesting partners. They get rich when America’s sons and daughters go off to die. They get rich when America loses wars instead of wins wars. They get rich when America gets weaker in the world.”
Since the GOP won control of the House in 2022, Speakers such as Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Mike Johnson (R-LA) have released additional footage that they claim shows Cheney selectively presenting evidence to assign blame to President Trump for the violence that occurred that day. Meanwhile, Trump remains the central figure in a criminal election interference case initiated by special counsel Jack Smith from the Biden Justice Department. For her part, Cheney was soundly trounced by now-Rep. Harriet Hageman in the Wyoming Republican primary in the summer of 2022.
House GOP investigators requested all communications between former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and individuals associated with the now-disbanded House select committee investigating the events of January 6, including the panel’s former vice chair, Cheney, in May.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chair of the Committee on House Administration’s oversight subcommittee, penned a letter to Hutchinson, requesting her communications with several individuals, including Cheney, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin, former White House deputy chief Anthony Ornato, and Secret Service agent Robert Engel, among others, Fox News reported.
Hutchinson, who published a memoir last year, was also asked for “all communications referencing or referring to potential publishing or book deals or related compensation.” established by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. During her testimony, she alleged that former President Donald Trump physically lunged at Engel, who served as his driver, after the agent declined to drive him to the U.S. Capitol. Trump and other individuals connected to the incident have refuted her allegations.
Hutchinson and Cheney appear to have grown close following her testimony. In a September 2023 MSNBC interview, Hutchinson lauded Cheney: “Liz Cheney is the leader that we all need to aspire to be, and she is the leader that we need as a country to come together and find people to elect people like Liz Cheney.” Loudermilk’s subcommittee, which has been looking into the House Jan. 6 probe, accused the Democrat-led panel of having “failed to properly archive their records, including as many as 900 interview summaries or transcripts, over one terabyte of digital data, and over 100 deleted or encrypted documents.”
“Therefore, the Subcommittee must now determine what documents were not properly archived and assess what documents are necessary to accomplish a productive investigation. The Subcommittee has no choice but to repeat much of the work of the Select Committee to understand their investigative findings,” he wrote.
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