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Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Closing Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Let me again thank our witnesses today. We have seen bravery and honor in these hearings. And Ms. Matthews and Mr. Pottinger – both of you will be remembered for that. As will Cassidy Hutchinson. She sat here alone, took the oath, and testified before millions of Americans. She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump, and by the 50, 60 and 70 year old men who hide themselves behind Executive Privilege. But like our witnesses today, she has courage, and she did it anyway. Cassidy, […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Eighth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 21, 2022
July 21, 2022
Let me begin tonight by wishing Chairman Thompson a rapid recovery from COVID. He has expertly led us through eight hearings so far, and he has brought us to the point we are today. In our initial hearing, the Chairman and I described what ultimately became Donald Trump’s seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election, a plan stretching from before Election Day through January 6th. At the close of today’s hearing, our ninth, we will have addressed each element of that plan. But in the course of these hearings, […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Closing Statement at the Seventh Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman: Mr. Chairman, let me put what you have seen today in a broader context. At the very outset of our hearings, we described several elements of President Trump’s multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 election. Our hearings have now covered all but one of those elements: An organized campaign to persuade millions of Americans of a falsehood – that the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud; A corrupt effort to pressure Vice President Pence to refuse to count electoral votes; An effort to […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Seventh Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – July 12, 2022
July 12, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Our Committee did not conduct a hearing last week, but we did conduct an on-the-record interview of President Trump’s former White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone. If you have watched these hearings, you have heard us call for Mr. Cipollone to come forward to testify. He did. And Mr. Cipollone’s testimony met our expectations. We will save for our next hearing President Trump’s behavior during the violence of January 6th. Today’s hearing will take us from December 14th, 2020, when the Electoral College met and […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Remarks at the Sixth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 28, 2022
June 28, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. In our first five hearings, the Committee has heard from a significant number of Republicans, including former Trump Administration Justice Department Officials, Trump Campaign officials, several members of President Trump’s White House staff, a prominent conservative judge and several others. Today’s witness, Ms. Cassidy Hutchinson, is another Republican, and another former member of President Trump’s White House staff. Certain of us in the House of Representatives recall that Ms. Hutchinson once worked [interned] for the House Republican Whip, Steve Scalise. But she is also […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Remarks at the Fifth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 23, 2022
June 23, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. At this point, our Committee has just begun to show America the evidence we have gathered. There is much more to come, both in our hearings and in our report. But I’d like to take just a moment to put everything we’ve seen in context. We have already seen how President Trump falsely declared victory on November 3, 2020, how he and his team launched a fraudulent media campaign that persuaded tens of millions of Americans that the election was stolen from him. Donald […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Remarks at the Fourth Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 21, 2022
June 21, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Today, we will begin examining President Trump’s effort to overturn the election by exerting pressure on state officials and state legislatures. Donald Trump had a direct and personal role in this effort, as did Rudy Giuliani, as did John Eastman. In other words, the same people who were attempting to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject electoral votes illegally, were also simultaneously working to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election at the state level. Each of these efforts to overturn the election […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Remarks at the Third Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 16, 2022
June 16, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me take just a few minutes today to put the topic of our hearing in broader context. In our last hearing, we heard unequivocal testimony that President Trump was told his election fraud allegations were complete nonsense. We heard this from members of the Trump campaign. We heard this from President Trump’s campaign lawyers. We heard this from President Trump’s former Attorney General Bill Barr. We heard this from President Trump’s former Acting Attorney General, Jeff Rosen. And we heard this from President […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the Second Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 13, 2022
June 13, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Last week, as the Chairman noted, our Committee began outlining a seven part plan overseen by President Trump to overturn the 2020 election. Today, we will begin looking at the initial part of that plan: President Trump’s effort to convince millions of Americans that the election was stolen from him by overwhelming fraud. A federal court has already reviewed elements of the Committee’s evidence on this point, and said this: [quote] “In the months following the election, numerous credible sources – from the President’s […]
Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting/Hearing
Opening Statement at the First Public Hearing of the January 6th Select Committee – June 9, 2022
June 9, 2022
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And let me echo those words about the importance of bipartisanship, and what a tremendous honor it is to work on this committee. Mr. Chairman, at 6:01pm on January 6th, after he spent hours watching a violent mob besiege, attack and invade our Capitol, Donald Trump tweeted. But he did not condemn the attack. Instead he justified it: "These are the things and events that happen,” he said, “when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots […]