Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday on “Face the Nation” that she expects former President Trump to “make the same false statements about the election that he knows are false and the same false statements about the election that he knows they violated on Jan. 1. 6 ” on his occasion on the first anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol.
“But again, he knows those allegations caused violence and now we’ve noticed other people who were on Capitol Hill, other people who were arrested for their activities that day, they told us themselves in court records, they told us on social media. , we saw it in videos; that they were here because Donald Trump told them to be here,” Cheney said. And so, he’s doing this press convention on the 6th. with a full understanding and wisdom of what the claims have caused in the past. “
Cheney said Americans want to “understand the danger of President Trump and the danger he posed that day. “
Cheney is the vice chairman of the Jan. 6 House Special Committee, which was created through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to investigate what happened that day. Cheney is one of only two Republicans on the committee, and while House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has so far more frequently refused. To paintings with the committee, she said he had “repeatedly stated that he was willing to come and talk to the committee. “
But the election committee faces a long-term doubtful if Republicans take over the House in November’s midterm elections. Cheney herself faces a major Trump-backed challenger in the state of Wyoming, and the state’s Republican Party voted to no longer recognize her.
“I think the country wants a strong Republican Party to move forward, but our party has to choose,” he said. “We can be unwavering with Donald Trump or be unwavering with the Constitution, but we can’t be both. now, there are too many Republicans seeking to allow the former president to embrace the former president. Look at it differently and I hope the former president will leave, seeking to obstruct the activities of this committee. discouraged. At the end of the day, facts matter and facts matter. “
Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat on the committee, told Face the Nation on Sunday that he expects public hearings to begin in the coming weeks.
“And what we hope to do is deliver what we’ve learned to the American people,” Schiff said. “There have been several efforts to reverse the elections. Of course, there were lies enacted through the former president, but also the efforts with local election officials and state legislators, the efforts of the Department of Justice and of course, the violent attack of January 6 and we hope to be to tell the story to the country so that they perceive that it is not just about that day. , January 6, but above all what led to it. Danger to the future. “
Schiff said the activities of Trump and his advisers and the Justice Department’s moves on Jan. 6 are the “focal point” of the committee’s investigation.
Schiff, who also sits on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Jan. 6 an “intelligence failure” to the effect that “not seeing all the evidence about the propensity for violence that day, many of them on social media. “”He said the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security will have to answer for those failures.
“But, let’s not be distracted by the fact that, yes, while there were things that may be fair and were done to protect the Capitol that day, the main lever, instrument, the cause of this violence was the enactment of a big lie by the former president, as his supporters were saying, who came here to attack the Capitol that day; they felt they were following the president’s instructions,” Schiff said. So it is vital to lose, that we do not lose sight of the here is a real motivating cause and we do not only concentrate on safety in construction. It is also imperative that we perceive that this was an attack encouraged through the commander-in-chief. “
Meanwhile, University of Chicago professor Robert Pape, who has studied insurgencies in war zones and now works with the Pentagon, found that most of those who attacked were not affiliated with any organized militia; they were people.
“What we’re seeing is a movement that’s a dominant movement, not just limited to fringe elements,” Pope said on “Face the Nation. “”And that’s important, because we’re so used to thinking about right-wing extremism, or actually extremism in general as a component of the fringe. They make up only a small fraction of the United States, less than 1%, and come from other people who are economically destitute, many unemployed. Well, that’s not what our studios of those who stormed the Capitol on the January 6 show, or the studies of the insurrection of emotions in the country. “
The other people who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 were “business leaders, white-collar CEOs, doctors, lawyers, architects and accountants,” Pape said, and only 7% were unemployed, which is about the same as the national average. .
“A total of 21 million more people today believe in two radical ideals in America: first, that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president; and the moment, that the use of force to repair Donald Trump in the presidency is justified,” Pape said. Of the 21 million other people, 42% say their main source of data is media outlets like Fox News, Newsmax and One America News. The moment when the maximum vital data resources for those 21 million are the main resources like CNN, PBS and CBS: “because when other people look at concepts they disagree with, they get angry. “Only 10% said they received news from right-wing social networks such as Gab or Telegram.
Race is also a detail and an engine of the attack, Pape said. Of the other 700 people who have been arrested, more than the portion live in counties won through President Biden, Pape said.
“They don’t come primarily from the redder parts of America,” Pope said. “They come from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Houston and Dallas. Also, when we take a look at the main feature that explains why “some counties and not others, what we see are the counties that sent the insurgents are the counties that lose the maximum white population. Well, this relates to this right-wing conspiracy theory that was once a component of the strip called the Great Replacement. concept that whites are being replaced. This concept is also that the Democratic Party is doing it deliberately. Well, this concept is now being expressed through classic political leaders, through major media personalities, followed at full speed. “