Former President Donald Trump appears to have supported rebel threats to hang the former vice president during the attack on the Capitol, saying “Mike Pence deserves it,” House Deputy Speaker Liz Cheney said Thursday night.
Cheney, the group’s leading Republican, said the testimony of former Trump aides showed that Trump was not concerned about the alleged threats to Pence’s life since pro-Trump rebels looted the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Commission Vice-Chair Liz Cheney made her inaugural statement Thursday night. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
Cheney also said that according to senior officials in the Trump administration, Trump knew he had lost the election.
“Trump’s intention was to remain president of the United States despite the legitimate outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to relinquish power,” Cheney said.
Thursday marked the first in a series of hearings investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, something lawmakers called an attempted “coup” and the subsequent attack on the Capitol.
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