GOP pursuit of Cheney attempts to rewrite Jan. 6 events
By Carl P. Leubsdorf / The Dallas Morning News
In the four years since mobs of his supporters stormed the Capitol in an unsuccessful effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat, Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have waged an incessant campaign to rewrite the history of one of the most shameful events in modern American history.
Now, as the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising nears, they have sunk to a new and dangerous low by calling for a criminal investigation of former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the main officials who sought to tell the truth about Trump’s role in inciting the insurrection.
In their false version, perpetrated in a new report by one of Trump’s congressional allies and encouraged by the president-elect, the guilty parties are Cheney and the key witnesses to the House panel that laid out Trump’s role in instigating the riot in which five died and hundreds were injured, including many law enforcement officers.
The 128-page “interim report” by Georgia Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk said Cheney should be investigated by the FBI for alleged witness tampering and other purported misdeeds. Her alleged crime: encouraging the truthful testimony of a key witness, former junior White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, about Trump’s activities that day.
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