Day 17: Revenge of the Jan. 5 "Tour Guide"
Subcommittee Targets Liz Cheney for her Jan. 6 Committee Leadership
Day 17–December 17, 2024
Donald Trump and his minions have made clear that at the top of their revenge list is former Rep. Liz Cheney, along with other members of the Jan. 6 Committee.
Today, a GOP House member (a subcommittee chair named Barry Loudermilk) fired an opening salvo of that payback, releasing a report suggesting that Cheney may have violated federal laws in actions she took as the Vice Chair of the House Select Committee that investigated January 6 .
According to the report Loudermilk released: “Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Loudermilk is best known for having led a private tour of the Capitol, including of areas closed to the public, on January 5, 2021. Surveillance video captured tour participants taking photographs of stairwells and security checkpoints. At least one person on the tour took part in the march toward the Capitol the next day. Loudermilk’s account of this tour (including that it was “a family with young children and their guests” shifted over time.
Cheney assailed the report: it “disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”
In the meantime, in another sign of how toothless America’s rule of law has become, thirteen “fake electors” from the illegal effort to overturn the 2020 election in swing states (Pennsylvania, Michigan and Nevada), some still facing criminal charges, took part as real electors to formalize Trump’s 2024 victory.
Given that members of Congress have immunity from arrest and civil suits related to their official duties under the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 6, Clause 1 of the US Constitution) this allegation is likely defamation per se. Hope she sues him for the statement.
These are the GOONS and THUGS (along with Trump, his corrupt family, and the billionaires, the 6 corrupt justices, and his administration of goons and thugs) that are the Republicans in Congress. Serving the American people means nothing to them. They ONLY serve their Dear Leader - Dictator Donny.