‘Loyalty to a tyrant’: Liz Cheney issues Senate warning over Jan. 6 report

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), whom Donald Trump has threatened to jail over her role in the Jan. 6 investigation into his alleged election subversion, touted the release of the J6 report and questioned whether Republicans would give their “loyalty to a tyrant” by blindly supporting the president-elect.The DOJ released special counsel Jack Smith’s report shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday, after Trump fought tooth-and-nail to prevent it from going public.In the report, Smith concluded that “If Donald Trump hadn’t won the presidential election in November, the Justice Department would have had ample evidence to convict him at trial of trying to obstruct the 2020 election results,” according to The Washington Post.Cheney posted on social media Tuesday morning, “The Special Counsel’s 1/6 Report, made public last night, confirms the unavoidable facts of 1/6 yet again. DOJ’s exhaustive and independent investigation reached the same essential conclusions as the Select Committee. All this DOJ evidence must be preserved.”ALSO READ: Fox News has blood on its hands as Trump twists the knifeCheney then questioned Republicans as they hold confirmation hearings on Trump’s most controversial nominees, including Kash Patel for FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, and Pete Hegseth for defense secretary.”But most important now, as the Senate considers confirming Trump’s Justice Department nominees: if those nominees cooperated with Trump’s deceit to overturn the 2020 election, they cannot now be entrusted with the responsibility to preserve the rule of law and protect our Republic,” Cheney wrote. “As our framers knew, our institutions only hold when those in office are not compromised by personal loyalty to a tyrant. So this question is now paramount for Republicans: Will you faithfully perform the duties the framers assigned to you and do what the Constitution requires? Or do you lack the courage?”According to a CNN analyst, the J6 report cited “many instances” where “Trump knew the election was not stolen in 2020, that there was not widespread fraud that could have delivered him a victory, and that he continued to lie to his supporters.”Trump responded on social media to the report’s release, writing, “Deranged Jack Smith was unable to successfully prosecute the Political Opponent of his ‘boss,’ Crooked Joe Biden, so he ends up writing yet another ‘Report’ based on information that the Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs ILLEGALLY DESTROYED AND DELETED, because it showed how totally innocent I was, and how completely guilty Nancy Pelosi, and others, were,” Trump posted shortly after the report’s release.Cheney, a Republican, was the chairwoman of the J6 Select Committee investigating Trump’s alleged involvement in election subversion, which led to his second impeachment. Trump was ultimately acquitted by Senate Republicans.

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