House GOP panel calls for Liz Cheney to be investigated for ‘criminal witness tampering’
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WASHINGTON — A House Republican-led panel on Tuesday called for a federal criminal investigation of former Rep. Liz Cheney for possible “criminal witness tampering” with a star witness while serving as vice chairman of the since-disbanded House select committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot.
Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Cassidy Hutchinson, a first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump, communicated via the encrypted Signal app before her explosive and later largely debunked public testimony in June 2022, according to documents previously released by House Republicans.
Citing those communications, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday issued an interim report calling for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney as Trump prepares to retake the White House.
“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the report from chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says.
“This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.”
Records made public in October by the same committee revealed that Cheney and Hutchinson used the Signal app to swap messages to arrange calls over the app, which is used by Washington journalists and politicians for its end-to-end encryption, which inhibits interception by authorities.
Communications made public in October by the same committee revealed that Cheney and Hutchinson used the Signal app to swap messages to arrange calls over the same app, which is used by Washington journalists and politicians due to its end-to-end encryption, which inhibits interception by authorities.
The content of the voice calls is unknown, but one message showed Hutchinson providing Cheney with a screenshot of her then-attorney Stefan Passantino suggesting she not cooperate with the panel that investigated Trump’s role in the mob attack by his supporters challenging the 2020 election results.
Hutchinson had been in the midst of six transcribed interviews with the select committee and her communication with Cheney on June 6, 2022, preceded her dramatic public testimony 22 days later.
Much of what Hutchinson testified publicly later was called into question by other witnesses — most notably her testimony that she was told that Trump was so enraged when Secret Service agents refused to take his motorcade to the Capitol on the day of the attack that he “lunged” for the steering wheel.
Photos showed that Hutchinson had misidentified the vehicle where the alleged encounter took place and the driver later denied it was true.
“Cassidy Hutchinson’s most outrageous claims lacked any evidence, and the Select Committee had knowledge that her claims were false when they publicly promoted her,” Loudermilk said in a press release.
“President Trump did not attack his Secret Service Detail at any time on January 6. President Trump did not have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6. Cassidy Hutchinson falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten note for President Trump on January 6,” he wrote.
“Former Representative Liz Cheney should be investigated for potential criminal witness tampering based on the new information about her communication.”
Cheney, the former No. 3 House Republican, returned fire Tuesday afternoon, accusing Loudermilk of “lies and defamatory allegations.”
“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who [he] really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave,” Cheney said.
“The January 6th Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration. All of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcripts, made public along with a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800 page report,” Cheney went on.
“Now, Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”
A Cheney spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The panel’s recommendation carries no inherent weight and it’s unclear if Trump’s nominees to lead the Justice Department are likely to act on the recommendation.
Trump, 78, has nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead the Justice Department and former adviser Kash Patel to serve as FBI director.
Trump and Cheney clashed on foreign policy matters throughout his first term and he called for her to be thrown out of Congress in his pre-riot speech, citing her actions to block him from withdrawing troops from war zones.
“In a year from now, you’re going to start working on Congress and we got to get rid of the weak congresspeople, the ones that aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world. We got to get rid of them,” Trump said before thousands of his supporters stormed the Capitol.
“You know, she never wants a soldier brought home — I brought a lot of our soldiers home… They’re in countries that nobody even knows the name, nobody knows where they are. They’re dying. They’re great, but they’re dying. They’re losing their arms, their legs, their face.”
Trump supported now-Wyoming GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman in unseating Cheney in the 2022 midterm elections. In turn, Cheney and her father — former Vice President Dick Cheney — supported Vice President Kamala Harris in her failed campaign against Trump this year.
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This new report from the Committee on the corruption of the January 6 Committee is truly stunning. The timeline goes like this:
- Cassidy Hutchinson does 3 interviews with the J6 Committee -
Alyssa Farah connects Hutchinson with Liz Cheney and they start directly communicating, a blatant ethics violation.
Liz Cheney convinces her to replace her lawyer with a liberal activist
Hutchinson does her 4th interview in which she begins making all of her outlandish claims to the committee.
Those claims turn out to be false.
The J6 Committee deletes over one terabyte worth of data before the new GOP majority took over.
Basically, Liz Cheney committed criminal witness tampering in order to derail President Trump.
Talking to a witness without informing the witnesses' lawyer seems like a problem....
according to who?
As far as I know no one has proven Hutchinson said a false word, let alone paragraph.
Her claims about Trump assaulting the limo driver, being "intimidated" as a witness etc etc... all were bogus.
according to who ? People who would lie for Trump at the drop of a hat?
Maybe they will try and prosecute Bob Woodward for revealing the existence of the eastman memo.
If prosecutors believed her, why wasn't anyone indicted for intimidating her?
‘according to who ?’
This from the person that claimed everything said by anti Trumpers during the J6 sham were the gospel.
Now you want to question someone who has debunked most of the testimony?
I would believe Liz Cheney any day of the week and twice on Sunday over Barry Loudermilk.
She could piss in your Wheaties and you’d believe it was milk. And only because she’s a never Trumper.
Sad
I read her book about the J6 committee. Did you?
Your comments are the only sad thing here. Sad and utterly uninformed.
I wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire so why would I give her money for a book?
As usual, the projection present in your comment is copious and telling.
You insist on making content free comments. Since it is allowed here, I guess you are in the clear.
Just start your own echo chamber in here like others have done. Then you can delete any thought that disagrees with yours just like they do.
The template is out there ….. go for it. In the meantime I will continue to provide content that is regularly ignored and gaslighted by my friends on the left.
Good times, good times …..
Un-American lunatics.
Fuck this traitorous clown and the elephant he rides in on.
Seems the pogrom of all things liberal has begun.
The traitor Trump really does want a civil war against all on his lengthy enemies list. The fool has gone totally insane!
I seriously doubt if Liz Cheney is worried. She knows they are clowns. I'm a little worried about Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farrah Griffin though. They may be scared to some degree.
The Republican House Oversight committee has failed at everything they've tried in the past four years.
It's their radical Fox watching, gun toting, low IQ, fanatical minions that we should all be worried about. This is a cult we're dealing with.
Fck Loudermilk, asz he was always short staffed and lact aids ,and when lacked aide his tolerance for the Truth diminished, asz he's 2% factual and intolerant to tolerance, can't seem to skim down to slim, as he buttered the in breds and dairy queens to falsify sum more Trump produced and fact free as in most often what you see, blabbed out of a much Loudermilk than he, cause Trump lies and peep wholes are a frayed to twist his yarns for fear of and ICE Scream knight Mayor dream knot true, just what Trump and those Louder than Milks, milk out the truth they do, for all it is not worth, andthen sum...
Another example of how the J6 committee operated:
I haven’t spoken much about the below incident publicly due to ongoing investigations — but given the good work of today’s House Admin report on the J6 Committee and its revelations on possible “witness tampering,” I’d like to share a relevant episode involving another fabrication from the Committee, Liz Cheney, and my former colleague Cassidy Hutchinson.
Almost three years ago, in early 2022, I got a phone call from Cassidy telling me her closed-door deposition with the J6 Committee (under subpoena) was approaching. Cassidy claimed to be worried that our old Trump WH colleagues, including our boss Mark Meadows, might think she was “disloyal” for following a subpoena and showing up to the deposition. I cut her off mid-convo and responded: “No one will think you’re disloyal just for following a subpoena. And Mark would never, ever ask you to do anything other than the right thing and tell the truth. He wouldn’t think you’re disloyal.” She agreed, and the convo ended perfectly fine.
Months later, Cassidy appeared out of nowhere at her now infamous public J6 hearing, making completely outlandish claims untethered from reality — many of which were rightly disputed or shot down within minutes. But you may also recall that after Cassidy’s appearance, Liz Cheney put up a bizarre anonymous message on a big screen, allegedly received by Cassidy before her (aforementioned) private deposition. Cheney claimed it was evidence of “witness intimidation.” The anonymous message Cheney displayed read, partly: “He (Meadows) told me you have your deposition tomorrow. He knows you're loyal, and you're going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition.”
Via public news reports, I later learned this was in reference to me. It was a completely twisted, utterly nonsense re-telling of the phone convo where Cassidy had fretted to me about “loyalty.” She (and the Committee) embellished parts of the exchange, made up others, and spun it into a lie that appeared like witness intimidation. The J6 Committee presented this account as factual — when it wasn’t — and then leaked my name to reporters to create the narrative that I was guilty.
In the weeks and months that followed, I faced accusations of criminal exposure over it – all over nonsense. Members like Dan Goldman publicly accused me of “witness tampering.” The FBI called me in for hours of questioning. Meanwhile, the J6 Committee never once followed up with me or my attorneys to ask me about this interaction before uncritically airing the dishonest version. It was all based on fabrications, yet the J6 Committee never even bothered to get the other side. It’s one of many reasons why none of their claims about President Trump, or frankly anyone else, should ever be believed.
This is just one story in a long list, and relatively, I ended up one of the lucky ones. But I’m glad to see the report today take the J6 Committee and their ‘star witness’ to task. They spread an untold amount of falsehoods about my friends, colleagues, and bosses, and forced many good people to defend themselves in ways they should’ve never had to. I will never forget it.
The J6 committee never followed up with him after accusing him of witness intimidation. Speaks volumes. The TV soap opera producers who coordinate the show got their headlines and then dropped it after misleading their gullible audience. Made for tV propaganda.
Ben Williamson was the ACTING director of communications at the White House on Jan 6th because the Director of Communications, Alyssah Farrah, had resigned a few weeks earlier because she saw Trump was a scumbag trying to steal the election.
I guess Ben Williamson didnt have any such qualms.
You have proof of this outside of your obvious bias own word right?
She resigned on Dec 3 2020 , 4 weeks after Trump began lying about the election, and has since said that Trump admitted in Nov 2020 that he had lost. She volunteered to testify to the J6 committee. Conversely, Cassidy Hutchinson's boss, Mark Meadows, defied a congressional subponea after failing to get total immunity from the committee.
You dont have to be a genius to figure this all out.
no you don’t. Little Lizzie’s vendetta (and make no mistake it is just a vendetta) began the day Trump bitchslapped Jeb Bush in the 2016 primary. It’s been all Bush cabal hands on deck since which includes her and her father Darth Cheney.
i do love how liberals are prostrating themselves all over a staunch, chickenhawk conservative though. Funny as hell.
A woman whom knew her job was ending went out and found another job.
It's obviously a conspiracy.
I didnt say it was a conspiracy. I said she knew Trump was lying about the election. I guess you dont know anything about her.
A woman who had a 98% conservative Congressional voting record was run out of the party because she wouldn't kiss Trump's ring.
So that justifies inventing a claim of witness intimidation for the cameras? Got it.
Trump's communication director was voting in Congress?
I don't care if batshit comes in different flavors, I'm still not interested.
I know that when you are on the staff of a politician who loses an election, your job goes away and you need to find another one.
Barry Loudermilk is a clown. Let them "investigate" Cheney. She will put it all right back in their faces.
Switch Loudermilk and Cheney in that comment and then you’re talking.
Did Alyssa Farah know Trump was lying about the election when she resigned? Yes, she did.
Lawfare.
Unlike the Democrats faux pursuit of Trump in the courts- witness tampering is a real crime. So is lying under oath.
She broke the law but it's not her fault, she suffers from an acute case of TDSphrenia.
That will be the reason given as to why she will be given a pardon.
Preemptive pardons are worthless, the entire committee is lobbying for them and they won't protect them for what is coming.
Very correct.
For instance, Hunter is now obligated to answer prosecutor, etc, questions without pleading the 5th. I think it is going to be very interesting the next year how Republicans will take on those democrats that have fucked up the country.
I hope they just don't fold like normal because we all know democrats will go after them with a vengeance if they did the same as what democrats did.