Liz Cheney's Jan. 6 committee: What kind of mendacious operation is this?

The lies are piling up. That happens when the facts don't fit the narrative and an ambitious and morally flexible pol is eaten alive by hate for Trump.

 

December 17, 2021  By Monica Showalter

Ever-determined to play the apocryphal role of Salieri to Donald Trump's Mozart, Liz Cheney is making a name for herself on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Jan. 6 investigative committee.  One problem: The committee is proving itself amazingly dishonest in its ambitions to Get Trump. Now it's becoming a pattern. Here's the latest out of that dishonest bunch from The Federalist:

 Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney went after former President Donald Trump in her prime-time performance on Monday claiming that private messages of the president’s staff revealed an apathetic leader complicit in the riot at the Capitol as the attack unfolded.

“The violence was evident to all — it was covered in real time by almost every news channel,” said Cheney, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked vice chair of the Select Committee on January 6. “But, for 187 minutes, President Trump refused to act when action by our president was required, indeed essential, and compelled by his oath to our Constitution.”

Trump’s 187-minute delay to action, she added, was a “supreme dereliction of duty.” An actual examination of the day’s events, however, shows no such delay.

 

 

According to a detailed timeline of the turmoil by The New York Times, the first building was not breached until about 2:13 p.m. The timeline was corroborated by The Washington Post, which stamped the first break-in at 2:15 p.m. Trump’s first tweet addressing the upheaval shortly followed at 2:38 p.m., when the president made a plea for peace, writing, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

And following that, Trump urged the crowd to be peaceful again, the Federalist notes. 

That makes everything that Cheney claimed a lie. She literally made up a claim against that Trump didn't try to call the crowd off, when he actually did, and she called that the story as the press fawned. This is amazing dishonesty brought on by bitter jealousy and ambitions of replacing Trump, as Tucker Carlson has noted. But that was far from the only lie in this checkered committee investigation showing a pattern of dishonesty:  The Federalist's Tristan Justice also notes this:........To Read More....