Rep. Liz Cheney will make a last high-profile stand against Donald Trump when the House Jan. 6 committee holds its final public meeting Monday — as sources say it's preparing to recommend the first-ever criminal charges against a former president.
After voting to impeach Trump, and thento serve on the select committee, she lost her No. 3 House GOP leadership position and ultimately, her congressional seat.
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks during a Constitution Day lecture at American Enterprise Institute, Sept. 19, 2022 in Washington, DC."The sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every American president -- except one," she added. "As Americans, we all have a duty to ensure what happened on Jan.
"The fact that she has been fearless in this process, knowing it would very likely cost her her seat, as it did, knowing that she was going to get death threats and more, she made it very clear that the priority here for her was protecting democracy against people trying to destroy it, including Donald Trump," he added. "All of that, plus the masterful way she handled the performance that she did on the committee, that's quite a legacy.
Over the course of several hearings, Cheney was careful not to admonish the half of the country that supported the former president but to keep theas someone she said preyed on his supporters by feeding them lies. She said Trump knowingly created the false impression that America was threatened by an outside force, asking his supporters to fight for him, despite the fact that it was "all complete nonsense.
, Cheney repeatedly argued that Trump -- as the nation's most powerful person -- was in a "unique position" as president to be "better informed about the absence of widespread election fraud than almost any other American.""President Trump is a 76-year-old man, he is not an impressionable child," she said in a hearing over the summer. "Just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices ...
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