{"id":24950,"date":"2024-03-18T02:17:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T07:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2024-03-18T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T07:17:11","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-call-for-liz-cheney-to-be-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=24950","title":{"rendered":"Trump doubles down on call for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>on Sunday doubled down on his push for former Rep. Liz Cheney\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Wyo.) to be prosecuted over allegations she and the other Jan. 6 committee members purposely withheld testimony and details from their investigation into the former president\u2019s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, on Truth Social on Sunday, posted a piece from former Trump administration aide Kash Patel published in The Federalist<\/u><\/a> last week, in which Patel claimed Cheney and the House Jan. 6 committee \u201csuppressed evidence\u201d about the former president\u2019s authorization of National Guard troops during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSHE SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR WHAT SHE HAS DONE TO OUR COUNTRY! SHE ILLEGALLY DESTROYED THE EVIDENCE. UNREAL!!!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social while linking to Patel\u2019s piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheney clapped back<\/u><\/a> Sunday at Trump\u2019s calls for her to be jailed on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, writing, \u201cHi Donald: you know these are lies. You have had all the grand jury & J6 transcripts for many months. You\u2019re trying to halt your 1\/6 trial because your VP, WH counsel, WH aides, campaign & DOJ officials etc. will testify against you. You\u2019re afraid of the truth and you should be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheney served as vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee and emerged as one of the most outspoken GOP critics of the former president. She has repeatedly pinned the blame on Trump for allegedly inciting the riot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheney lost her seat in the House after three terms to Trump-backed challenger Rep. Harriet Hageman\u2002<\/u><\/a>during the 2022 primaries in Wyoming, where Trump maintained wide support with voters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The back-and-forth comes nearly a week after House Republicans released a new report<\/u><\/a> on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack in an attempt to discredit Congress\u2019s initial investigation into the Capitol insurrection and clear Trump of any wrongdoing as he pursues reelection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report, drafted by the House Administration Committee\u2019s oversight subpanel, accuses the now-disbanded Jan. 6 select committee of embarking on a partisan witch hunt to harm the former president.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Included in the report was a detail about how the driver of Trump\u2019s car on Jan. 6 disputed testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who previously claimed Trump tried to take control of the car and go toward the Capitol. She told the public she heard in a story from others that Trump had \u201clunged\u201d for the steering wheel after his speech near the White House in an apparent attempt to go toward the Capitol on Jan. 6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unnamed driver told the committee<\/u><\/a>, however, that Trump \u201cnever grabbed the steering wheel,\u201d and he said he \u201cdidn\u2019t see him \u2026 lunge to try to get into the front seat at all.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans have seized on the driver\u2019s testimony and how the committee did not release it earlier as further fuel to their argument Trump\u2019s actions on Jan. 6 should be exonerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A copy of the transcript of the driver\u2019s testimony, reviewed by The New York Times<\/u><\/a>, indicated the driver did back Hutchinson\u2019s details about Trump\u2019s insistence to join supporters at the Capitol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump currently faces four felonies<\/u><\/a> over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, though the trial has been delayed<\/u><\/a> while the Supreme Court weighs whether the former president\u2019s actions on Jan. 6 fall under presidential immunity. Trump has argued he cannot be prosecuted because he was working as president at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former President Trump\u2002on Sunday doubled down on his push for former Rep. Liz Cheney\u2002(R-Wyo.) to be prosecuted over allegations she and the other Jan. 6 committee members purposely withheld testimony and details from their investigation into the former president\u2019s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Trump, on Truth Social on Sunday, posted a piece from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5256,27242,4479,1230],"class_list":["post-24950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-appeal","tag-leizcheney","tag-prosecution","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24952,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions\/24952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}