Cheney vows House January 6 committee ‘won’t be intimidated’ after RNC censure for her involvement
“Those who do not wish the truth of Jan. 6 to come out have predictably resorted to attacking the process—claiming it is tainted and political,” the Wyoming Republican wrote. “Our hearings will show this charge to be wrong. We are focused on facts, not rhetoric, and we will present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face.”
Cheney on Thursday doubled down on her criticism of Trump and his influence on the GOP, arguing that his false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election caused dramatic changes within the party — and eventually led to the insurrection.
“Republicans used to advocate fidelity to the rule of law and the plain text of the Constitution,” she wrote. “In 2020, Mr. Trump convinced many to abandon those principles. He falsely claimed that the election was stolen from him because of widespread fraud. While some degree of fraud occurs in every election, there was no evidence of fraud on a scale that could have changed this one.”
“Almost all members of Congress know this—although many lack the courage to say it out loud,” she continued.
“What Mr. Trump had insisted that Mr. Pence do on Jan. 6 was not only un-American, it was unconstitutional and illegal,” she wrote.