Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Friday checked Donald Trump over his newest string of “malicious lies,” after the president-elect continued his push to rewrite the historical past of the lethal rebellion on the U.S. Capitol simply days earlier than the fourth anniversary of the assault.
“Donald, this isn’t the Soviet Union. You’ll be able to’t change the reality and you can not silence us,” Cheney wrote in a social media post.
Her remarks come after Trump complained on his Reality Social platform about President Joe Biden honoring each her and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) — who helped lead a Home committee that investigated the lethal Jan. 6, 2021, assault — with the Presidential Residents Medal.
She responded to Trump by reminding him of lies he’d informed concerning the 2020 presidential election and of his failed coup try earlier than the tip of his first time period within the White Home.
“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 depart? Keep in mind how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We bear in mind,” Cheney wrote.
“And now, as you are taking workplace once more, the American folks must reject your newest malicious falsehoods and stand because the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to guard the America we love from you.”
Trump’s Reality Social submit featured false claims about Cheney and the Home Jan. 6 committee, incorrectly stating that members “destroyed and deleted all proof” from its investigation into the assault. (The panel’s closing report and supporting supplies are available online.)
It additionally falsely 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 rebellion. (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,” the president-elect wrote of those that’d served on the Home committee.
“They’ve destroyed the lives of many individuals, and are rewarded by getting Biden Pretend Medals. This isn’t America. January twentieth can not come quick sufficient,” he added, referring to the date of his upcoming presidential inauguration.
Final month, Trump accused Cheney of “egregious and unthinkable acts of crime” after Republicans criticized the Home 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.”
