Cheney confirms she told Jim Jordan on Jan. 6 'Get away from me. You f---ing did this'
By Mychael Schnell - 01/06/22 03:04 PM EST
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) confirmed in a new interview that she told Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) during the Jan. 6 riot “Get away from me, you f---ing did this,” as the lawmakers were being escorted away from the protesters who had stormed the Capitol building.
Cheney confirmed the interaction during an interview with The New York Times’s Michael Barbaro for “The Daily” podcast that was published on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the deadly attack. Asked by Barbaro if the confrontation, first reported in the book “I Alone Can Fix It,” was true, Cheney said “yeah,” before detailing her thoughts during the expletive-ridden interaction.
“I was in the aisle, on the aisle and he [Jordan] came over to me, you know, and basically said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. And, you know, I had watched for the months since the election what was going on and the lies that have been told to people,” Cheney told Barbaro.
“And, you know, it was both that I, you know, certainly didn’t need his help, and secondly, I thought clearly that the lie that they had been spreading and telling people had absolutely contributed to what we were living through at that moment,” she added.
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