US Capitol attack: Liz Cheney says Trump’s
conduct was ‘a supreme dereliction of duty’
Here’s more
from Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the special House committee investigating
the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, who was on the Today Show this morning.
She told
Savannah Guthrie that our institutions “only held because of people who were
willing to stand up against the pressure from former president Trump, people in
his own department of justice...elected officials at the state level who stood
up to him and the law enforcement officers here at the Capitol.”
“We came
very close, and we need to recognize how important it is that the system
depends on individuals and that it never happens again,” Cheney said.
Guthrie
asked Cheney if she thought our democracy was still in a fragile state. Cheney
replied, “The threat continues.”
“Donald
Trump continues to make the same claims that he knows caused violence on
January 6 and it’s very important, if you look at what’s happening in my own
party, the Republican party, rather than reject what happened on the 6th,
reject the lies about the election and make clear that a president who engaged
in those activities can never be president again - unfortunately, too many in
my own party are embracing the former president, looking the other way and
refusing to minimize the danger,” Cheney said. “That’s how democracies die and
we simply cannot let that happen.”
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Liz Cheney:
Trump’s conduct on day of attack was ‘a supreme dereliction of duty’
Hello, live
blog readers.
Today marks
the one-year anniversary of one of the worst days in US history: the 6 January
attack on the US Capitol. The day a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the
Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential
election result of Joe Biden’s victory – clashing with police, destroying
property and leaving five people dead.
In his
remarks from the Capitol steps today, Biden is expected to lay out the
“singular responsibility” that Trump has for the “chaos and carnage” of that
day, according to the White House.
Though his
attorney general, Merrick Garland, may have disappointed some critics calling
for swifter and harsher justice – in particular for the former president – with
his speech yesterday detailing the justice department investigation, Biden’s
strong stance against Trump is sure to draw him favors. Biden has been
“clear-eyed” about the “threat the former president represents to our
democracy”, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, said in a briefing on
Wednesday.
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