Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) checked Donald Trump over his newest string of “malicious lies” on Friday after the president-elect continued his push to rewrite historical past on the lethal rebel on the U.S. Capitol simply days earlier than the 4th anniversary of the assault.
“Donald, this isn’t the Soviet Union. You possibly can’t change the reality and you can’t silence us,” Cheney wrote in a social media submit.
Her remarks come after the president-elect’s Fact Social outburst over President Joe Biden honoring each her and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) — who helped lead the Home committee that investigated the lethal Jan. 6, 2021 assault — with the Presidential Residents Medal.
She responded to Trump by reminding him of his 2020 election lies and his failed coup try earlier than leaving workplace.
“Keep in mind the way you despatched a mob to our Capitol after which watched the violence on tv and refused for hours to instruct the mob to go away? Keep in mind how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We bear in mind,” Cheney wrote.
“And now, as you’re taking workplace once more, the American folks have to reject your newest malicious falsehoods and stand because the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to guard the America we love from you.”
Trump’s submit featured false claims about Cheney and the committee together with one which members “destroyed and deleted all proof” from its investigation into the assault (the panel’s last report and supporting supplies are on-line).
He additionally claimed that former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “refused to simply accept the assistance which was supplied for safety” on the day of the assault (this has lengthy been debunked).
“Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the remainder of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible issues below the pretense of January sixth,” wrote the president-elect of the committee’s members.
He later continued, “They’ve destroyed the lives of many individuals, and are rewarded by getting Biden Pretend Medals. This isn’t America. January twentieth can’t come quick sufficient.”
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Final month, Trump took to his Fact Social platform to accuse the ex-congresswoman of “egregious and unthinkable acts of crime” after Republicans criticized the “failures” of the committee in an interim report.
Cheney, in response, stated that the GOP-backed report “disregards the reality” and described Trump as a “merciless and vindictive man” for his position within the assault.