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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on July 26, 2021, 04:36:27 pm
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Cheney to get prime speaking slot at first Jan. 6 committee hearing
By Cristina Marcos - 07/26/21 12:00 PM EDT
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will give an opening statement at Tuesday's first hearing by the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, underscoring how Democrats want to present the proceedings as bipartisan despite the boycott by House GOP leaders.
Cheney's opening statement will follow one from the select committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), according to a source familiar with the plan.
The select committee's first hearing on Tuesday will feature testimony from four police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6: Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell of the Capitol Police, as well as Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Capitol Police.
Video in the days after the Jan. 6 attack showed the mob dragging Fanone down a set of stairs on the Capitol's West Front, while Hodges was seen in another screaming in pain as the rioters ripped off his mask and sprayed chemical irritants in his face as he was wedged in a doorway.
Cheney and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) will be the only Republicans serving on the panel after GOP leaders opted to boycott participation altogether due to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) refusing to seat two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) picks.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/house/564827-cheney-to-get-prime-speaking-slot-at-first-jan-6-committee-hearing
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I still don't understand what this deep state harpy hopes to achieve by making a spectacle of herself this way. Its gotta be clear to her by now she isn't changing minds, only provoking.
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Cheney has designs on the White House, and she thinks daddy's money will get her there.
I would not vote her dogcatcher.
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No bipartisanship present.
Everyone on the committee has already made up their minds on who is guilty, so it is just a question of how much punishment to inflict.
If Nancy thinks most people will consider this like a jury trial, she is sorely mistaken. It is no better than the past impeachments by all Democrats, with a couple of GOP RINOs thrown in.
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Cheney Responds to McCarthy Calling Her a ‘Pelosi Republican: ‘Pretty Childish’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/07/26/cheney-responds-to-mccarthy-calling-her-a-pelosi-republican-pretty-childish/
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Potemkin Bipartisanship