Liz Cheney suggests Steve Bannon and Donald Trump were involved in planning the Jan. 6 riot
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Liz Cheney suggests Steve Bannon and Donald Trump were involved in planning the Jan. 6 riot
Ronny Reyes, Katelyn Caralle 9-12 minutes 10/20/2021
US Rep. Liz Cheney argued that former White advisor Steve Bannon's refusal to cooperate with the January 6 committee suggests he and former President Donald Trump worked together to plan the riot at Capitol Hill.
Cheney's allegations come as the committee voted on Tuesday evening to hold Bannon in contempt for refusing to testify before the select panel about his links to and communications with groups accused of stoking the violence.
If successful, the committee's move to hold Bannon in contempt will pass to the House of Representatives for a vote, and then to the Department of Justice to decide whether to prosecute him, potentially leading to jail time.
The progression of the case could set the template for contempt action against other staff from the former Trump administration, with the committee having issued subpoenas to more than a dozen people who helped plan pro-Trump rallies.
'Based on the committee's investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advanced knowledge of the plans for January 6 and likely had an important role in formulating those plans,' Cheney, a Republican who serves as vice chair on the committee said.
She added that Trump's invocation of executive privilege to try and halt the investigation demonstrates 'that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6, and this committee will get to the bottom of that.'
US Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican who serves as vice chair on the January 6 committee, argued that Steve Bannon and Donald Trump knew about and helped plan the riot
Steve Bannon, left, was held in criminal contempt for refusing to testify in front of the January 6 committee. Former President Donald Trump said he'd use executive privilege to resist the committee's investigation into the Capitol Hill riot
Liz Cheney to GOP: 'You All KNOW' Election Fraud Claims Are False
Cheney also urged her fellow members of the GOP to renounce the claims made by Trump and the organizers of the Capitol Hill riot regarding alleged voter fraud.
'Almost every one of my colleagues knows in your hearts that what happened on January 6th was profoundly wrong. You all know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to have changed the results of the election,' Cheney said.
'You all know that the Dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. You know these claims are false.
She added that the claims against election fraud could hurt Republican's chances at future elections as American's could become too jaded to vote in a system they believe is fixed.
'This is a prescription for national self-destruction,' Cheney said. 'll of us who are elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law, and to ensure that nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again.'
Trump appeared rattled by the committee last week, saying in a statement: 'Unselect Committee composed of Radical Left Democrats and a few horrible ... Republicans'.
Banon was a close ally of Trump's throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, having a direct line to the then-candidate and later president.
Divisions soon emerged, however, when he became involved in a power struggle with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, and other senior staff in the White House. Trump, meanwhile, grew frustrated at constant press leaks.
The pair parted ways in acrimonious circumstances, with Trump saying a year later: 'When [Bannon] was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.'
The House Select Committee (pictured) probing the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters rejected earlier on Tuesday an attempt by Bannon to refrain from testifying
The nine-member panel includes two anti-Trump Republicans – Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming (left) and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois (right)
January 6 committee votes to hold Steve Bannon in contempt
Tuesday, the panel probing the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters rejected an attempt by Bannon to refrain from testifying.
This vote now paves the way for the entire House to vote on whether to recommend contempt charges. A source familiar with the schedule said that the vote was planned for Thursday.
If the House approves the referral, the Justice Department will decide whether to pursue a criminal case.
'I would just say that what we just saw was a unanimous bipartisan determination by the January 6 Select Committee to ensure that our subpoenas are observed,' Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the panel, said to reporters immediately following the vote.
'No one in the United States of America has the right to blow off a subpoena by court or by the United States Congress,' he continued.
'If Mr. Bannon wants to show up and plead the Fifth Amendment because he will incriminate himself, he has that constitutional right. We of course had the authority to offer him use immunity so that we wouldn't use any evidence against him directly, that's been well established by the Supreme Court.'
In a Monday report, the panel argued that Bannon made statements suggesting he knew ahead of time about 'extreme events' on January 6, when Congress was scheduled to certify Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election against Trump.
Bannon said on a January 5 podcast: 'All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.'
The next day, thousands of Trump supporters descended on the Capitol as part of a 'Stop the Steal' rally in an attempt to overturn Trump's election defeat, which Trump still claims was the result of widespread fraud.
Before leaving office in January, Trump pardoned Bannon of charges he had swindled the Republican president's supporters.
Trump has urged former aides subpoenaed by the panel to reject its requests, claiming the right to withhold information because of executive privilege, a legal principle that protects many White House communications.
Bannon, pictured with Donald Trump, claims he is protected from testifying under the former president's executive privilege, which Trump said he'd use to resist against the committee
Heading the January 6 Select Committee is Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi
President Joe Biden's White House argues Trump has no legitimate privilege claim.
'The former president's actions represented a unique - and existential - threat to our democracy that can't be swept under the rug,' White House spokesman Michael Gwin said. 'The constitutional protections of executive privilege should not be used to shield information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the Constitution itself.'
More than 670 people have been charged with taking part in the riot, the worst attack on the U.S. government since the War of 1812.
So far, the select committee has issued 19 subpoenas.
When asked about how others who were called to testify may respond, panel member Adam Schiff said he's confident the swift action of the committee will deter further noncompliance.
'I don't think we have perfect visibility on whether these witnesses are going to comply – or we're going to have to go the route we did with Steven Bannon.'
'We made it very clear with how quickly we moved to hold Bannon in criminal contempt that we are not wasting time,' the Democratic California representative said after the Tuesday evening vote.
Trump filed suit on Monday, alleging the committee made an illegal, unfounded and overly broad request for his White House records, which committee leaders rejected.
Many legal experts have said Trump's executive privilege claim is weak because the committee has a compelling need to see the requested materials.
The January 6 Capitol riot was aimed at blocking Congress from certifying the election win for Joe Biden and resulted in five deaths and the second impeachment of Trump
Bannon said on a January 5 podcast, 'All hell is going to break loose tomorrow' – leading investigators to believe he knew about plans for the attack ahead of time
The U.S. Supreme Court said in 1821 that Congress has 'inherent authority' to arrest and detain recalcitrant witnesses on its own, without the Justice Department's help. But it has not used that authority in nearly a century.
In 1927, the high court said the Senate acted lawfully in sending its deputy sergeant at arms to Ohio to arrest and detain the brother of the then-attorney general, who had refused to testify about a bribery scheme known as the Teapot Dome scandal.
The select committee was created by House Democrats against the wishes of most Republicans. Two of the committee's nine members - Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger - are Republicans who joined House Democrats in voting to impeach Trump in January on a charge of inciting the Jan. 6 attack in a fiery speech to supporters earlier that day.
Multiple courts, state election officials and members of Trump's own administration have rejected Trump's claims that Biden won because of election fraud.
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One of the most conservative members of Congress thinks the ex president was involved in planning the insurrection - wow.
Of course they were!
She has a right to her opinion and that opinion is why Pelosi put her (a Republican) on that committee. That opinion is also the basis of the committee witch hunt.
So you are claiming that Pelosi wanted her on the committee because of a position she did not have when the committee was formed? Is Pelosi a time traveler so she knew before Cheney did?
Tell us when Cheney first reacted to the events of Jan 6th.
Trying to move the goalposts again?
'Based on the committee's investigation, it appears that Mr. Bannon had substantial advanced knowledge of the plans for January 6 and likely had an important role in formulating those plans,' Cheney, a Republican who serves as vice chair on the committee said.
Based on the committee's investigation
You lost me. You said the following:
So you are claiming that Pelosi wanted her on the committee because of a position she did not have when the committee was formed?
I dispute that. Cheney was blaming Trump immediately after the Jan 6th incident and therefore her position was well known before the committee was formed. I doubt there is anyone other than you who would doubt that.
This is your opinion and has nothing to do with any facts. Her statement specifically mentioned info she had gained from the investigation.
Bullshit. Prior to claiming something, do a little fucking research..........story from January 6,2021.........
Read her statement. She clearly states that she has seen evidence linking him.
Very good. That means she stated her position immediately back in January!
"A day before the vote, Cheney put out a statement announcing she planned to vote against Trump. “None of this would have happened without the President. The President could have immediately and forcefully intervened to stop the violence. He did not. There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” Cheney said in the statement. “I will vote to impeach the President.”
YOU WERE WRONG. PELOSI NEEDED NO TIME CAPSULE. CHENEY WAS ON BOARD FROM THE GO, BEFORE THE COMMITTEE WAS SELECTED.
HAVE A GOOD DAY
Did you forget what you stated?
To this........
Doesn't have a fucking thing to do with any evidence. It was the day of and in any case, contrary to your moving the goalposts, she was blaming Trump immediately after. You lost. Deal with it.
So that makes Trump a moderate?
Until she provides some proof, her opinion is dog doo doo.
Ms. Liz is drunk right now on the sudden admiration of her by the Democrats. I guess she forgot all the hateful things said about her father by her colleagues. Loyalty to family has never been a strong and admiral trait of the swamp rats.
The FBI and others found no such evidence.
Are you honestly, and that dumb ass too, comparing the Civil War and January 6?
The TDS is never ending.
Kudos for once again failing to actually read and comprehend Tessylo's post.
No I didn't. There is no need for Article 3 to be invoked.
So much drama around this here site this morning....................
Cool. If it was an insurrection, somebody, somewhere must have been charged with engaging in an insurrection, right?
Good to know her TDS driven stupidity hasn't abated. She is now smarter than the FBI.
The FBI does not have the ability to penetrate stonewalling. If it did we would have learned more about collusion between the Trumps and Russia. Mueller specifically noted that one reason he could not prove collusion was lack of co-operation from the suspects and possible destruction of evidence.
Really John? You have proof of this? Mueller had an entire fleet of TDS driven Obama and Clinton sycophants at his disposal; and an FBI that was proven to be anti-Trump as hell. The reason he dropped collusion charges is he couldn't find jack shit of anything. The Steele Dossier that was used to gain the FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign was nothing more than a gigantic political hit job paid for by the Clinton campaign. In other words a lie. That is the reason Mueller switched from collusion to obstruction. Please don't even act like Trump is the first president to obstruct an investigation by a special prosecutor after Clinton.
Maybe someone will finally come up with a cure for TDS; and those suffering can get back to leading normal lives.
Obviously, what we are seeing today is so much TDS afflicted people are scared Trump will run again in 2024, they are doing anything and everything they can to keep him in the news and allege negative things about him.
They know the rest of the TDS riddled liberals will fall in line and screech about him incessantly, many of whom have already started in here.
I guess this is more liberal gibberish for "he did it"?
This reminds me of a program that teaches foreign languages. It is called "Babbel"
Not unlike the language program that teaches you how to speak liberalism.
It's called "babble".
We have a new winner for the liar of the year award!
First in no way is the commission bipartisan. Pelosi appointing two TDS driven Republican lap dogs to the commission in now way makes it bipartisan. It just makes the investigation an even bigger shill.
Second several people (Gasp, including prominent Democrats!) have blown off subpoenas by the United States Congress.
How soon the left forgets reality. Midterms cannot come quick enough so this farce of a commission can be ended.
Don't forget that Pelosi shut down every recommendation the Republicans had given her until she got what she wanted. She about broke down in tears when Jim Jordan was recommended. I'm surprised his name didn't send her into a drinking binge.
I didn't forget. The only way she got what she wanted was to appoint both of the Republicans herself.
Both should be stripped of their Republican Party membership; and all House committee assignments. Let them sit an spin on Pelosi's commission until their terms are up, they are recalled, or are finally voted out of office.
I am sure Liz is doing her daddy proud- she is a true Establishment tool, same as him.
The Republican Party exists in name only.
I doubt that, but Jim Jordan is a crackpot right wing extremist who has sworn fealty to Trump.
He would have come on this committee and introduced ridiculous , dishonest conspiracy theories. Of course he had to be kept off.
So what about the Democratic Party that has given into it's far left wack jobs?
Neither party represents the voters anymore; but they are what we are stuck with. There is no viable third party; and the chances are there never will be one as the two Establishment parties work together to either snuff out independents, or bring them into the fold.
Right now the Republican Party is the lesser of two evils. 5 and a half years and counting of Democrat get Trump at all costs. When are they going to address real issues? Like the wide open southern border; immigration; and investigating how the hell US citizens were ever abandoned in Afghanistan- and what to do about it! You know the important things that their porkulus reconciliation bill either doesn't address; or makes worse.
Who has proven the Democrats wrong on virtually everything.
Like Trump orchestrated it?
Actually , even one member from the other party makes a committee bi-partisan.
Not when the members of one party are cherry picked by the other party.
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Will never be true no matter how many times the left try to state it.
Neither was appointed by the Republican head of the House Kevin McCarthy.
So no bipartisanship John. The Republicans rejected Pelosi because she doesn't want a proper investigation- she wants a rubber stamp to her predetermined outcome. Just like her second impeachment attempt where Republicans were either barred from asking questions during private depositions; are denied any oversite even.
We all know the Democrats want to turn the US into Communist China; but we until then we still have two party rule at least.
Mc Carthy wanted to put Republicans on there that intended to sabotage the committee. Pelosi would have to have been out of her mind to agree to that.
By sabotage you mean not play by Pelosi's rubber stamp rules. No predetermined outcomes; and showing how the riots by BLM and Antifa that did far worse damage were treated far differently.
Pelosi's dog and pony show commission was always going to find Trump guilty, no matter the evidence or lack thereof. The outcome was never in question.
5 and years and counting of rampant TDS. When the hell are we going to get a damn break!
Cheney isn't telling us anything that we with functioning brains didn't already know.