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MaddowBlog: On Jan. 6 anniversary, Liz Cheney faces intensifying offensive from Trump, GOP
MaddowBlog - On Jan. 6 anniversary, Liz Cheney faces intensifying offensive from Trump, GOP
As Donald Trump targets the Wyoming Republican, Speaker Mike Johnson vowed yet another pointless investigation into the original Jan. 6 investigation.
Jan. 6, 2025, 12:48 PM EST
By Steve Benen
About a month ago, amid speculation about President Joe Biden weighing pre-emptive pardons, Republican Rep. Dan Meuser appeared on Newsmax and derided the discussion as “nonsense.” The Pennsylvanian quickly explained why such pardons would be entirely unnecessary.
“Nobody’s going to be going after Liz Cheney,” Meuser said, referring to the former House Republican Conference chair who helped lead the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee.
Two weeks later, Meuser’s GOP colleagues on the House Administration Committee formally requested that the FBI investigate Cheney. To be sure, the Republicans’ case against the former Wyoming congresswoman was impossible to take seriously, but it served as a timely reminder that many in the party are still eager to target a lifelong Republican who served as the chair of the House GOP conference as recently as 2021.
Indeed, no one seems more focused on punishing Cheney than Donald Trump, who recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and said the former congresswoman and her colleagues on the Jan. 6 panel “should go to jail.” The president-elect soon after declared by way of his social media platform that Cheney “could be in a lot of trouble,” pointing to the referral to the FBI.
On Friday afternoon, apparently furious that President Joe Biden had awarded Cheney with the Presidential Citizens Medal a day earlier, the president-elect published yet another tantrum by way of his social media platform, falsely accusing Cheney of having been “proven to be totally corrupt.” He added that she and her Jan. 6 committee colleagues “destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.” (This absurd claim has been thoroughly discredited.)
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As Donald Trump targets the Wyoming Republican, Speaker Mike Johnson vowed yet another pointless investigation into the original Jan. 6 investigation.
Jan. 6, 2025, 12:48 PM EST
By Steve Benen
About a month ago, amid speculation about President Joe Biden weighing pre-emptive pardons, Republican Rep. Dan Meuser appeared on Newsmax and derided the discussion as “nonsense.” The Pennsylvanian quickly explained why such pardons would be entirely unnecessary.
“Nobody’s going to be going after Liz Cheney,” Meuser said, referring to the former House Republican Conference chair who helped lead the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee.
Two weeks later, Meuser’s GOP colleagues on the House Administration Committee formally requested that the FBI investigate Cheney. To be sure, the Republicans’ case against the former Wyoming congresswoman was impossible to take seriously, but it served as a timely reminder that many in the party are still eager to target a lifelong Republican who served as the chair of the House GOP conference as recently as 2021.
Indeed, no one seems more focused on punishing Cheney than Donald Trump, who recently appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and said the former congresswoman and her colleagues on the Jan. 6 panel “should go to jail.” The president-elect soon after declared by way of his social media platform that Cheney “could be in a lot of trouble,” pointing to the referral to the FBI.
On Friday afternoon, apparently furious that President Joe Biden had awarded Cheney with the Presidential Citizens Medal a day earlier, the president-elect published yet another tantrum by way of his social media platform, falsely accusing Cheney of having been “proven to be totally corrupt.” He added that she and her Jan. 6 committee colleagues “destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.” (This absurd claim has been thoroughly discredited.)
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