In Aspen, Rep. Cheney stands firm on probe into Jan. 6 attacks
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Source: Aspen Times
Cheney, a Wyoming congresswoman, is one of two Republicans, along with Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, on the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection. During its first hearing held July 27, police officers spoke in horrific terms about what happened when hordes of Trump supporters — believing the November election was “stolen” from the former TV reality star — stormed the Capitol.
“It was mob, and you’ve seen the video now, attempting to tear people limb from limb,” Cheney told interviewer Eric Schmidt, also former chairman and CEO of Google, inside the Greenwald Pavilion on the Aspen Meadows campus. “And so when I hear my colleagues say it was a group of tourists, when I hear them say this was nothing to be afraid of, when I hear Donald Trump say the crowd was full of love, I think it is reprehensible and indefensible, and I think that all of us have a duty and a responsibility not to look away from the reality of that day and the reality of how we got to that day.”
Cheney voted with Donald Trump 92.6% of the time he was president and also voted to re-elect him in 2020. The daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney assumed office in January 2017 and has said she will seek re-election in the 2022 mid-terms.
Republicans removed her from her GOP leadership position after she impeached Trump over the insurrection, and Trump reportedly has been meeting with potential challengers to Cheney in next year’s primary. Cheney, however, said the insurrection probe is a search for the truth of what happened Jan. 6, also the byproduct of a fragmented America, part of which has drifted from the country’s democratic principles.
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