President-elect Donald Trump said Liz Cheney and other members of the Jan 6 committee should be jailed as they deleted all the evidence from their investigation. Cheney and Trump have been attacking each other since the campaigning time as Liz Cheney supported Kamala Harris and campaigned extensively for her. “Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” Trump said in an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday. “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.”
“Cheney was behind it. And so was Bennie Thompson and everybody on that committee. For what they did, honestly, they should go to jail,” Trump said.
Former Wyoming Rep Liz Cheney responded to Donald Trump’s threat and said Trump’s words are an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”
“Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,” Cheney said. “He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building and halted the official counting of electoral votes. Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave.”
“This was the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation’s history,” she said in a statement to the NYT. “Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”
“Donald Trump knows his claims about the select committee are ridiculous and false, as has been detailed extensively, including by Chairman Thompson.”
“There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis for what Donald Trump is suggesting — a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee — and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct,” she added.
