Trump: Liz Cheney, Entire J6 Committee, Should Be Jailed

Trump: Liz Cheney, Entire J6 Committee, Should Be Jailed


Former President Donald Trump didn’t hold back in his recent criticism of former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and the rest of the Select Committee on January 6, which she co-chaired with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) over the weekend.

The House has launched a new investigation into the events of January 6, centering this time on potential omissions and misrepresentations by the now-disbanded, Democrat-appointed, anti-Trump January 6 committee, a development that prompted the former president to release a bold new statement on his Truth Social platform.

“She should go to jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” he wrote in response to a report from Just the News.

The report contradicted earlier claims by a Jan. 6 Committee witness, former Trump White House official Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed that she heard Trump attempted to grab a Secret Service agent driving the presidential limousine and force him to drive to the Capitol as the riot was taking place.

Just the News noted that a Secret Service agent testified behind closed doors to the committee that the incident never happened. The report also said that Cheney, who has long echoed Hutchinson’s claims, attended the closed-door testimony and knew Trump’s refutation of the event was correct.

“The driver testified that he specifically refuted the version of events as recounted by Hutchinson,” the report released by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chair of the House Administration subcommittee on Jan. 6, noted. “The driver of the SUV testified that he ‘did not see him reach [redacted]. [President Trump] never grabbed the steering wheel.

“I didn’t see him, you know, lunge to try to get into the front seat at all,’” the agent testified, refuting Hutchinson’s account.

“Cassidy’s testimony was already on shaky ground, as the report was second-hand knowledge. Called hearsay, it’s usually not permitted in court proceedings as evidence,” Newsmax reported.

However, Democrats and two anti-Trump members on the committee, Cheney and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., used it nonetheless. Both were voted out of office as the committee’s activities ceased when Republicans regained the House majority.

Just the News also reported previously that witnesses corroborated Trump’s claim that he called for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed at the Capitol ahead of his rally, which Cheney and Democrats had said wasn’t true.


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