Cheney: Republicans who stuck by Trump 'will not be judged well by history'

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Cheney: Republicans who stuck by Trump 'will not be judged well by history'
By Joseph Choi - 01/04/22 05:35 PM EST

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in an interview on Tuesday that her fellow Republicans in Congress who have stuck by former President Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack "will not be judged well by history."

Haley Byrd Wilt, associate editor of The Dispatch, asked Cheney how the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 plans on providing a clear picture of the Capitol attack that is widely accepted by people across the political spectrum when the panel appeared to have little support from or involvement with the GOP. Cheney is one of only two Republican lawmakers on the committee, along with outgoing Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.).

Cheney pointed out that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had ultimately made the decision not to appoint people from his party to the committee. McCarthy withdrew his appointments after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rejected Republican Reps. Jim Banks (Ind.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), who he had named, as appointees.


Cheney told Wilt that the picture of Jan. 6 that the committee currently has is that Trump "summoned" the rioters to Washington, D.C., and "told them to march on the Capitol."

"I think [Trump's] actions and the actions of those people who continue to defend president Trump will not be judged well by history," Cheney said. "And so part of our committee's responsibility is to get the facts for history, to make sure people have all of those on which to make judgements going forward."

Cheney recalled that immediately after the attack, Republicans were unified in their condemnation of what had occurred. However, she said that many of her GOP colleagues now seem to be "willing to minimize and whitewash what happened," though she added that "they won't be successful."

Reflecting back on Jan. 6, 2020, Cheney told Wilt that she remembers being "very angry."

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[dfwgator]

Talk about not being "judged well by history".....Just look at your daddy, toots!

On February 13, 2008, an average of major polls indicated that Bush/Cheney's approval rating stood at 33.3%. The same average showed, for polls issued during the period from September 5 to 16, 2008, that Bush/Cheney's approval rating was 31.9%, and his disapproval rating was 64.8%.

Even Joe's Number's aren't that bad.

And let's see,   got us into a war based on phoney intel,  and let 9/11 happen on their watch.   That doesn't exacly look good neither.

[libertybele]

Dizzy Miss Lizzy  (couldn't help myself)


www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUs1_vyxsZs

[EdinVA]

Another megan mccain... just go away lizzy

[Right_in_Virginia]

She's given us another reason why we must be the ones to write the history.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I really am starting to believe there's a straightacket in Lizard's future.

[Right_in_Virginia]

thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile

I have not heard one person in my daily life bring up January 6th since January 7th.


7:05 PM · Jan 3, 2022·TweetDeck

[Smokin Joe]

She's given us another reason why we must be the ones to write the history.

Exactly.

[Kamaji]

She's given us another reason why we must be the ones to write the history.

[mountaineer]

Her impending defeat in the primary is how she'll be judged by history - and her constituents.

[DefiantMassRINO]

We'll see.  History is written by the victors.