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Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Said there had been an “extremely broad” and “extremely well-organized” conspiracy by then-President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results – and that Jan. 6 . , In 2021, the attack on the US Capitol was just one example of a “continuing threat” to democracy.
“We are not in a situation where former President Trump has expressed some remorse for what happened,” Cheney, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives’ election commission investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, told Robert Costa of CBS News.
“In fact, we are in a situation where he continues to use even more extreme language, frankly, than the language that caused the attack,” she added. “So people need to pay attention. “People need to watch and understand how easily our democratic system can fall apart if we don’t protect it.”
Cheney’s remarks, released Sunday, come days before the committee begins prime time, televised hearings in June that will include live witnesses, recorded interviews with key figures – including members of the Trump family – and unprecedented videos. The hearings marked the culmination of an investigation that included more than 1,000 interviews and reviews of more than 125,000 recordings.
Cheney said she was confident that the evidence presented during the hearings would force Americans to pay attention, even when she speculated that many of her fellow Republicans had “sworn allegiance” to Trump for the country.
“I think there is an absolute cult of personality around Donald Trump,” Cheney told Costa. “And I think, you know, the majority of Republicans across the country don’t want to see our system fall apart. They understand how important it is to defend and defend the Constitution. “
MP Liz Cheney, deputy chairman of the House of Representatives’ election commission investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, said in an interview with @costareports that she has an “absolute cult of personality around Donald Trump” in the Republican Party pic.twitter .com / u0XAmZRzCJ
– CBS Sunday Morning @ (@CBSSunday) June 3, 2022
Representative Adam B. Schiff (D-California), another member of the January 6 election commission, said the committee hopes the hearings will counter Trump’s continued spread of the baseless allegation – what some of his critics call The “big lie” – this widespread voter fraud cost him the 2020 election. Schiff also said there are many things the American public has not yet seen about the January 6 attack.
“But perhaps most importantly, society has not seen it intertwined, how one thing led to another, how one line of cancellation efforts led to another, and ultimately led to horrific violence, the first unsettled transfer of power. in our history, “Schiff said on CBS News’s” Face the Nation “show on Sunday. “So, we want to tell this comprehensive story and we strive [an audience]to be honest, he still has an open opinion on these facts. “
It is unclear who remains unbiased about the events of January 6, with polls showing little agreement between the two parties on the uprising. Several high-ranking Republicans have refused to cooperate with the commission with various consequences. The Justice Department said Friday it has filed charges against former Trump adviser Peter Navarro, but will not press charges against former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and former communications chief Daniel Scavino Jr.
Commissioner Schiff, a member of the committee on January 6, on what is important for this week’s hearing: eventually led to horrific violence. “pic.twitter.com/SPnIpwTNDN
– Face the Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 5, 2022
Schiff said Sunday that he could not confirm or deny which witnesses would appear before the commission during the public hearings, and called the Justice Ministry’s decision not to charge Meadows and Scavino a “serious disappointment” that could hamper the work of the commission.
“I can say that certainly one of the topics we will develop is the fact that before the 6th, there was an understanding of the propensity for violence that day, the participation of white nationalist groups, the effect that the continued spread of this” “A big lie to irritate the country and the president’s base is likely to lead to violence,” he said.
For the few Republicans who tried to hold Trump responsible for his role in the attack, the backlash from their party was quick. Of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after Jan. 6, four are leaving Congress instead of seeking re-election. Others face difficult primary challenges.
EXCLUSIVE: Representative Tom Rice was one of 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to impeach the former president. Trump to incite the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
“I did it then. And I would do it again tomorrow, “Rice told @JonKarl, calling it the” conservative vote. ” pic.twitter.com/5TfW942Rfq
– This week (@ThisWeekABC) June 5, 2022
MP Tom Rice (SC), who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, admitted on Sunday that he could lose his seat because of the vote, but said it would still be worth it. Only if Trump apologizes, Rice said, will he consider supporting the former president again.
Rice said his impeachment vote “wasn’t that difficult” after thinking about Trump’s inaction on the day of the uprising, including exposing the lives of then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Pence’s family and watching police defend Capitol. beats for hours.
“The more I read about it, the more I learned about it – I knew what I had to do,” Rice said. “I was furious. Today I am furious about this. Now I have sworn to keep the Constitution and I did it then and I will do it again tomorrow. “
Jacqueline Alemanni, Josh Dousey and Amy Gardner contributed to this report.
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