REPORT: House GOP panel calls for Liz Cheney to be investigated for ‘criminal witness tampering’ [Trump responds]

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From The New York Post: A House Republican-led panel on Tuesday called for a federal criminal investigation of former Rep. Liz Cheney for possible “criminal witness tampering” with a star witness while serving as vice chairman of the since-disbanded House select committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot.

Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Cassidy Hutchinson, a first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump, communicated via the encrypted Signal app before her explosive and later largely debunked public testimony in June 2022, according to documents previously released by House Republicans.

Citing those communications, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday issued an interim report calling for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney as Trump prepares to retake the White House.

“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the report from chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan shared a link to the report and wrote, “MUST READ: @RepLoudermilk releases a report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th Committee. It was all a sham.”

“Read it here: https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/6/d/6dae7b82-7683-4f56-a177-ba98695e600d/145DD5A70E967DEEC1F511764D3E6FA1.final-interim-report.pdf.”

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) announced Tuesday, “The Democrats’ former J6 Select Committee conducted their ‘investigation’ outside the bounds of legitimacy, suppressed evidence, and deleted key information. Today’s report exposes them for misleading Congress and the American people.”

President-elect Donald Trump reacted to the news, writing in a post on Truth Social, “Liz Cheney could be in a lot of trouble based on the evidence obtained by the subcommittee, which states that “numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, and these violations should be investigated by the FBI.” Thank you to Congressman Barry Loudermilk on a job well done.”

Cheney also reacted to the report, posting a defiant statement on her BlueSky account:

“January 6th showed Donald Trump for who is really is – a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our Capitol and law enforcement officers while he watched television and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave. The January 6th Committee’s hearings and report featured scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump’s own White House, campaign and Administration. All of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcripts, made public along with a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800 page report. The Department of Justice conducted its own independent investigation and reached the same fundamental conclusions.

“Now, Chairman Loudermilk’s ‘Interim Report’ intentionally 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. Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously.”

See below for my statement in response to Chairman Loudermilk’s “Interim Report”:

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— Liz Cheney (@lizcheney.bsky.social) December 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM

More information regarding Cheney’s “witness tampering” involving former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is being shared on social media, including a copies of text exchanges:

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