Lashing out one more time before leaving Congress for good, 56-year-old Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), Co-Chair of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, slammed 57-year-old House Speaker candidate Rep. Kevin McCarthy for not condemning 76-year-old former President Donald Trump for hosting Kanye West and his 24-year-old white supremacist friend Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago Nov. 24. Cheney finds herself erased since her time in Congress is ending. Cheney lost her reelection bid Aug. 16 in Wyoming to Trump-backed Harried Hageman by nearly 20%, a stinging defeat for all her party disloyalty. Cheney spent her last years in Congress slamming Trump, working with Democrats on impeachment and now charging Trump with more crimes for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. Cheney demands that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy condemn Trump for meeting with Kanye and Fuentes.
Trump already explained that he accepted Kanye’s request to come meet at Mar-a-Lago, bringing with him Nick Fuentes, a known white supremacist and anti-Semite. Trump said that he was set up by Kanye bringing Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago when Trump knew nothing about him. “Hey we here is your condemnation of Donald Trump for meeting with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, the pro-Putin leader of the America First Political Action Conference?” tweeted Cheney. I know you want to be Speaker, but are you willing to be completely amoral?” Cheney likes to speak for other people, playing politics on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. Democrats on the highly biased committee welcome Cheney as Co-Chair for her hatred of Trump. Cheney spent the last years of her political career going after Trump, even after he lost the Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election to 80-year-old President Joe Biden.
Cheney has insisted on the House Select Committee that Trump planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots, despite having no evidence to support her views. When federal prosecutors convicted 57-year-old Oath Keeper founder Steward Rhodes of “seditious conspiracy” carrying with it possible 20 years in prison, Cheney said nothing. Cheney insists that Trump, not Rhodes, planned and orchestrated the Jan. 6 riots. With extreme prejudice like that, it’s no wonder the Jan. 6 Committee has zero credibility. Designed to implicate Trump in planning the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, the Select Committee forgot that actual trial in D.C. federal court to charged Rhodes with planning the Jan. 6 Caipitol riots proceeded. Yet Cheney’s blinding hatred of Trump, doesn’t stop her from making outlandish claims that the entire insurrection was planned and orchestrated by Trump.
House impeachment managers led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) tried Trump of “incitement of insurrection” in the U.S. Senate. When the Senate acquitted Trump Feb. 13, 2021 House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) couldn’t stop their mission to stop Trump from running for president in 2024. Rhodes, and his 52-year-old co-defendant Kelly Meggs were convicted Nov. 28 of “seditious conspiracy.” Cheney said nothing about the convictions because its undermines her fabrications that Trump was the mastermind behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. House Democrats insisted in his impeachment trial that Trump whipped a Jan. 6 crowd at the Ellipse in D.C. to spontaneously attack the Capitol. FBI officials testifying at Rhodes and Meggs trial proved that the Jan. 6 Capitol riots took months to plan, perhaps as far back as the Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election.
Cheney has a few weeks left of her rampage against Trump before the Jan. 6 House Committee folds its tent. After thousands of subpoenas and getting Trump’s children and former employees to testify against him, the Committee broke new ground for partisan witch hunts. Cheney thinks she can brow beat McCarthy into condemning Trump for meeting with lunatic Kanye West and his Neo-Nazi friend Nick Fuentes. All the media theater doesn’t change the fact that Trump knew nothing about Fuente, maybe the same about his past ties with Kanye. Kanye is too wrapped up in his bipolar disorder to recognize that making stupid anti-Semitic remarks does nothing for his career, only wins plaudits from losers like Fuentes. Trump might have learned his lesson to vet more carefully anyone coming into his contact. U.S. press looks at Trump under a microscope to find anything controversial.
McCarthy doesn’t need to placate has been Liz Cheney, whose political career is all but over, even with plans she has to run in 2024 as an independent. Cheney has been summarily evicted from the Republican Party, only hoping there’s enough anti-Trump sentiment to win her some interest. McCarthy faces a vote in January for House Speaker requiring at least 118 votes, totaling the minimum number of GOP votes to win the House. “The president can have meetings with who he wants. I don’t think anybody though, should have a meeting with Nick Fuentes,” McCaruthy said, letting he feelings known. “Hanging around with this anti-Semitic, pro-Putin white supremacists. This isn’t complicated. It’s indefensible,” Cheney said, beating a dead horse. Trump faces more obstacles in 2024 than he faced in 2016, largely because 75% of U.S. voters don’t support his reelection as president.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
