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Cheney: Trump’s Inaction on January 6 Was a Dereliction of Duty
Over the weekend, Wyoming Congresswoman and Vice Chair of the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined both ABC’s “This Week” and CBS’s “Face the Nation” to discuss the progress of the Select Committee as we approach the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cheney said they are learning much more about what former President Trump was doing while the violent assault was under way.
Cheney was asked about criminal negligence on the part of former President Trump for his role on January 6.
Cheney said we need conservative, principled leadership, but the Republican Party has to make a choice – to be loyal to our Constitution or loyal to Donald Trump, but we cannot be both. She said the nation needs a Republican Party that is based on substance and values and principles, and we’ve got to get back to that if we want to get this nation back on track. But fundamentally, at the end of the day, we can’t be a party that’s based on lies. We’ve got to be based on a foundation of truth and fidelity to the rule of law, and, in my view, the most conservative of conservative principles is fidelity to the Constitution.
Clark Guelde
January 4, 2022 at 4:03 am
I find it ironic that she’s complaining about “a party based on lies” because she certainly didn’t have any scruples about the lies and manipulations that led to the invasion of Iraq back in 2003. I suppose if you profit from a few lies it changes the entire equation. Maybe Trump should send her a nice fat “campaign contribution” so she can move in to more pressing matters like double digit inflation or the 2.8 trillion federal deficit we ran last year.
Stephan Geiser
January 4, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Is that really comparable to Iraq and the state of the republican party… Iraq was not clear and intentionally made that way by her Dad –
William Silvers
January 4, 2022 at 3:36 pm
What does Iraq, inflation, or deficit have to do with the assault on the Capital building and the violence and deaths that was the result.
What fundamental belief’s does the Republican Party endorse “constitutionally?” This question needs to be addressed.
Maybe a multi-party parliamentary system might work better to get us back to a workable government. Another question for another time.
What did Trump do to stop the violence and what was the timeline.
Just the facts.
Clark Guelde
January 4, 2022 at 7:31 pm
I doubt anything will bring us back to workable government at this point except maybe some form of national divorce.
mike duncan
January 4, 2022 at 5:50 am
what did Pelosi know and when did she know it?
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 12:18 pm
What did trump know and when did he know it?
John r. Pilch
January 4, 2022 at 7:15 am
BLAA, BLAA BLAA,BLAA, BLAAABAAAA! BLAAA,baaaa!
Ralph Blommel
January 4, 2022 at 7:39 am
Actually, Lying Liz, it is Pelosi that was in charge of Capitol security! Trump was out on a platform giving a speech when the trouble started.
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 7:41 am
“Cheney said we need conservative, principled leadership, but the Republican Party has to make a choice – to be loyal to our Constitution or loyal to Donald Trump, but we cannot be both.” Repubs…it’s YOUR choice if y’all want America to become a fascist nation of fools…or a nation of Socialist liberal fools. Big choice…eh?
mike duncan
January 4, 2022 at 10:59 am
God fred. U make me feel so guilty. Nothing more comical that when dems try to take the high moral ground…too bad Liz daddy didnt follow her definition. I love the part abut the constitution.. follow it like Obama eh? Thanks for the laugh but i will keep on fighting pathetic rinos like liz..ever wonder whey she and the anti trump clown from Il were asked to be on the committee and 2 other repubs were tossed off? Comical.
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 12:17 pm
Perhaps if the shoe fits…wear it.
Thomas Jones
January 4, 2022 at 8:28 am
Cheney voted to impeach Trump based on what her inquisition is going after him for. In other words there was no evidence for impeachment. Guilty until proven innocent is the mantra of the establishment uniparty. Is that the type of country we want to live under? The unknown Trump scares the Heck out of them because he could expose the MASSIVE corruption that infests DC, and they need to thouroghly destroy him because of that. Cheney, a symptom of a bigger problem, needs to go.
ray olson
January 4, 2022 at 9:53 am (Edit)
Interesting- the only person in the mix who has been successfully sued for corruption and fraud (Trump U., fake charities, stiffing sub-contractors on construction projects and hiring illegal aliens to work his resorts to name a few) is your superhero who’s going save us from the deep state? In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon.”
mike duncan
January 4, 2022 at 11:03 am
and wow ray–lets dont forget the 2 impeachments.. what were they for again?
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 12:16 pm
How about those 30,000 lies trump told while in office? Morality….I doubt it.
ray olson
January 4, 2022 at 1:45 pm (Edit)
They were about the fact that the jury foreman (Mitch McConnell) stated that he didn’t care about the facts- there was no way he would allow the Senate to convict. He actually made that disgusting statement out loud. Review the facts- not just the preordained crocked outcome. ON the facts Trump was guilty as hell.
Thomas Jones
January 5, 2022 at 9:00 am
Only a maroon would support a massively corrupt govt. who have made themselves more equal than the rest of us….and I’m talking about both parties, ray.
Mark Steingass
January 4, 2022 at 8:49 am
…how ironic…Trumps own family members and FOX news hosts all telling Trump boldly to stop the situation unfolding…then to top it all off after the insurrection was over Trump “abandoned ship” and “threw his own supporters under the bus”….fitting behavior for a “MAGAlomaniac”…
Charles Cole
January 4, 2022 at 9:13 am
Someone should ask Cheney where she was when, in 2018, a group of “climate activists” from the Sunrise Movement stormed the Capitol, unlawfully entered it, and occupied Nancy Pelosi’s office. When interviewed about this incident, Pelosi proclaimed how inspired she was by these people’s activism and how she welcomed their presence as it showed their ongoing “participation in our democracy.” Either Cheney has a very, very poor memory, or she is simply grandstanding out of personal hatred for Donald Trump. Either way, her actions are far from noble and call into question her sincerity and her honesty. Hardly someone deserving of the public’s trust.
dennis west
January 4, 2022 at 10:23 am
Well Charlie, its good to see you’ve changed your mind about us poor deaf unwashed masses – even though you swore off any attempt to enlighten us last year, you still offer words of wisdom! This time though, your effort to equate a peaceful demonstration by middle school and high school students with the Jan 6 ransacking of the US capitol on leads me to wonder. While obviously capable of intelligent debate, you seem maybe blinkered by ideology. The result is you present as a practitioner of the false equivalency tactic in the GOP’s effort to gaslight us unwashed masses as to last year’s efforts to subvert a legitimate election in favor of a New York property developer. Hate to think that is in fact your motive. But does the shoe fit? . . . . If so, some spokesman for freedom and democracy you actually turn out to be, and probably appropriate therefore to ignore your pearls.
mike duncan
January 4, 2022 at 11:01 am
Liz has an approval rating in wyoming of 19 %. Herpes has a 30% approval rating in wyoming.
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 12:15 pm
What does that snarky remark have to do with the facts at hand about trump? Your mentality is oozing out again.
ray olson
January 4, 2022 at 1:31 pm
Only among Republicans- right up there with we’re going to own the libs by dying from covid.
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 11:08 am
Trump loved being called Commander in Chief…yet a real one like JFK,Eisenhower,Teddy Roosevelt and a host of others actually had some “skin in the game” and deserved that title.Trump did NOT have any “skin in the game” and did NOT deserve to hold that title. I find it mind boggling how so many so called “patriots” can worship someone who had “bone spurs” in the 1960’s to avoid his duty during Vietnam when many of us had to go in his place. Perhaps he should explain his stand on POW’S that were mistreated by people he like. You reap what you sow..people.
MIKE DUNCAN
January 4, 2022 at 12:43 pm
yeah! damn that trump–leaving innocent americans and afghans to die in afghanistan under taliban rule! huh? not trump? Biden? Oh! Well……..NEVER MIND
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 4:09 pm (Edit)
This is not about Biden and you know it…must be another prodigal Wyoming ewe.Triggered.
mike duncan
January 4, 2022 at 12:50 pm
Fred, what branch of the military did you serve and for how many years? BTW could you post Obamas and bill clintons service records as well????
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 4:11 pm
DUNCAN..what branch of military did you serve in and for how long? Obama and Clinton has NOTHING to do with that worthless dud and you know it.
Clark Guelde
January 4, 2022 at 7:26 pm
None of the Cheney’s served either, not a single one of them. But they never met a war that wasn’t important enough to send someone else’s kid to go fight so long as they could manage to make a few bucks.
Charles Cole
January 4, 2022 at 12:09 pm
To Mike Duncan, Thomas Jones, and Ralph Blommel. Good points y’all made here. And please don’t ever be discouraged if and when (probably more likely when than if) our merry little band of local lefties “reply” to your posts with their usual fatuous, inane ad hominem diatribes. Always remember the old adage: “the flak is always heaviest directly over the target.” Thanks again. It was refreshing reading your posts.
dennis west
January 4, 2022 at 1:32 pm
Got it, Charlie. You’re bailing out on being a serious contributor.
Fred Osborn
January 4, 2022 at 4:13 pm (Edit)
Y’all’s “usual fatuous, inane ad hominem diatribes” are a match for any “lefties”. Prodigal ewes I see.
Ross Holter
January 4, 2022 at 1:21 pm
I commend Representative Cheney for taking a stand against the insurrectionist wing of the GOP. What happened on January 6 was nothing less than an attempted coup undertaken by Trump loyalists at the behest of their leader. Former president Trump needs to stand and be tried for his crimes just as his followers are doing so currently.
Mark Steingass
January 4, 2022 at 2:01 pm
I agree with you Ross,…and Liz Cheney has some valid points…people on both sides (republican and democrat) died as a result of the January 6th riot…considering the most recent evidence Trump may be guilty of highly serious malfeasance charges not only for his actions before the insurrection started but more importantly his full knowledge as events unfolded in real time and his inactions while the insurrection was transpiring…even while being advised by his “own advisers” including others in FOX news media to make an effort to stop the violence immediately
Harriett Oleson
January 4, 2022 at 3:43 pm
I just don’t get it!!! How many “patriots” on this forum can support the Jan 6th insurrection and the ego who inspired it. Just like the history of Germany in the early 30’s.. No matter what trump does or incites, you still blindly follow. Liz Cheney voted the Trump agenda over 90% of the time but she is one of the few Trumplicans who stood up for the Constitution. Like in Aesop’s fables you turtles should know trump is still a Scorpion and can’t help himself…
Ross Holter
January 4, 2022 at 6:16 pm
The hypocrisy of the right knows no bounds
Clark Guelde
January 4, 2022 at 7:22 pm
I wouldn’t say I support the so called insurrection anymore than I support any other riot nor do I believe that Trump was cheated out of the election. His own mouth needlessly lost that for him. I am however quite entertained watching liberals lose their heads over the matter as their own ship appears to be sinking fairly quickly. I enjoy the one sided hypocritical outrage so much that I’m trying to figure out some way to meaningfully celebrate “Insurrection Day” later this week. Maybe some fire works and a nice plate of ribs while I tune in to MSNBC and watch the crocodile tears flow like the Mississippi River.
William Silvers
January 4, 2022 at 4:01 pm (Edit)
Some spam from Trump asking for more ‘patriots’: Pres Trump is disappointed you didn’t enter to meet him at his Rally. He really wants to meet you…
Don Jr: Our MAJOR FEC deadline is coming up. I’ll send my father a list of Patriots who step up. Can I add your name? NO!!
As we said in the Marine Corps, WAFWOT. Let’s get in the now, today, and make some good happen in this country. American politics should be like a bell curve.. its not the fringes that makes the difference… it’s the people who can compromise.. on issues, never the ideals, which though tested, stand against tyranny.
Christopher McDaniel
January 4, 2022 at 5:48 pm
Starters, I am a Dem. I feel like anyone can say something negative about almost anyone in office. Why can’t we be the change we want to see. I am not a Trump fan, not am I a Biden fan. I want the finger pointing and pot stirring to stop. I think there was a lot of good and bad from almost everyone in office. Division of the people is no way to get things done. I think that a little Grace and humility are due on both sides. Jan. 6th was an incident that happened. We must come together as a solid front to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Finger pointing and hunting for the smoking gun is not going to accomplish anything, except to divide us further.
Sandy Perkins
January 6, 2022 at 11:20 am
Bye, bye Liz! You will soon be working for MSNBC!
BC Perryman
January 6, 2022 at 2:59 pm
Liz Cheney has warn out any credibility she might have established in Wyoming and deserves to be voted out of office. She has embraced the idea that the Left can finally admit what it wants, which she reminds us of certain items on the Left’s agenda that Democrats once had to keep hidden from voters but that, now she would have us believe they are more or less open about. More pertinent is how has Liz fought rising taxes, the JoeBama-era strategy on eneregy, inflation the highest since 1980ish, the utter failure of the Afghanistan disengagement debacle, the proposed IRS monitoring plan put forth by the JoeBama administration concerning monitoring all bank transactions over $600, closing down the southern border effectively, stopping the Antifa-BLM riots/insurrections, the utter failure of the JoeBama vaccine mandates, worked to reform election integrity, the overall reduction in living standards while JoeBama panders to the climate-change lobby, the mindless commitment for the country to reach “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050, the closing of coal and gas-fired power generators, not to mention the public education system failing for the rising generation (CRT, 1619 Project), transgenderism, etc.Soros sowing anarchy in America, among many others.