Cheney hints: We're building a case that
Trump committed a federal crime on January 6
Hot Air,
by
Allahpundit
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
12/14/2021 12:22:19 PM
Everyone’s understandably focused today on how Cheney embarrassed Trump Jr and the Fox News gang by reading their texts to Trump on January 6. Ed has a nice write-up about it here. But don’t miss the forest for the trees. The point Cheney was making isn’t that Fox News hosts are hypocrites, although they are. The point is that the president’s own family and allies were pleading with him while the riot was unfolding to do something, yet he did nothing — for hours. Everyone around him treated it like an emergency. Not him.
Was that a crime?
Watch the end of this clip, starting at around 3:00.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 12/14/2021 12:25:03 PM (No. 1006693)
Deep State criminals desperate to "get Trump" even if they have to invent every single "fact" from thin air to do it.
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The author is an idiot.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 12/14/2021 12:32:55 PM (No. 1006704)
In democrat parlance, "building a case" is a euphemism for "greasing some palms" and "threatening judges."
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/14/2021 12:36:43 PM (No. 1006710)
When will the FIB release the Russian dossier claiming that Trump bought sandwiches for the rioters?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 12/14/2021 12:37:47 PM (No. 1006712)
Go ahead and build a case. With inflation at a 40 year high, thousands of people rushing the border. Thousands of Americans left in Afghanistan, the supply chain in liberal turmoil,, the election coup de'tat to overthrow the Government. I guess it's important to spend time on trying to get Trump for the umpteenth time. Hope she ends up in jail.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena 12/14/2021 12:38:57 PM (No. 1006715)
Maybe they can impeach him again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/14/2021 12:46:00 PM (No. 1006724)
Cheney is building a case that many suffer from extreme mental sickness. Trump Derangement Syndrome is Progressive and fatal. Keep it up because your political career will certainly die.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
gramma b 12/14/2021 12:46:54 PM (No. 1006725)
If you want to understand why they keep calling Jan 6 an “insurrection” and why they are so desperate to blame Trump for “insurrection,” read the 14th Amendment. They are trying to disqualify Trump from running again.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
msjena 12/14/2021 12:47:15 PM (No. 1006727)
This article refers to "the insurrection." Next!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/14/2021 12:47:56 PM (No. 1006728)
If Trump had sent in the National Guard, Pelosi et all would have been screaming about Trump violating the separation of powers and the Constitution. Remember how Congress got their panties in a knot when the FBI raided the office of corrupt Congressman William Jefferson in 2006. If memory serves, both Republicans and Democrats were OUTRAGED that the Executive Branch had the gall to raid a Congressional office.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/14/2021 12:48:33 PM (No. 1006729)
Liz and all the Democrat Lilliputians...still laboring mightily to "get Gulliver"...
"At first, the Lilliputians are hospitable to Gulliver, but they are also wary of the threat that his size poses to them. The Lilliputians reveal themselves to be a people who put great emphasis on trivial matters. For example, which end of an egg a person cracks becomes the basis of a deep political rift within that nation. They are a people who revel in displays of authority and performances of power...
(Ultimately) Gulliver is charged with treason for, among other crimes, urinating in the capital though he was putting out a fire..." (so like Jan 6 - if only)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/14/2021 12:49:24 PM (No. 1006732)
She's apparently become mentally ill.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
john56 12/14/2021 12:53:37 PM (No. 1006743)
I figured the only chance they had of getting Trump on a Federal Crime would be if they could get one of his hotel maids to flip on him and tell them that Trump told her to rip off those "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Federal Law" tags from his hotel mattresses. Maybe Lefty Liz finally got one to go Deep State Evidence.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/14/2021 12:56:09 PM (No. 1006748)
The article seems to say that Trump did not act with sufficient vigor to exhort the bad actors to stop their wrongful activity. And that that failure is a crime.
I suppose under extraordinary circumstances it could be. But what are the facts showing such extraordinary circumstances? Not these texts. Even if the texts show that some people had the opinion that he should do more, that does not establish any “facts”, just opinions.
If the bad actors were false flag dims, would they have heeded Trump’s more strenuous exhortations? What’s the evidence?
I would think the fact that the people in charge of security intentionally refused to provide adequate security would be closer to being such a crime. And maybe capitol police whipped the crowd up with pro-dim brutality- would that constitute such a crime?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TXknitter 12/14/2021 12:57:02 PM (No. 1006750)
Make no mistake the Republican party establishment is just fine with all Liz Cheney is doing too. Do we hear a word against this from leaders in House, Senate or party officials? No. They are salivating at this because they must continue to mock, denigrate, paint as a criminal the BEST President we had since Reagan. They work with the left to destroy Trump to stick us with Pence, Hailey and other Bush globalists in 2024.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
AltaD 12/14/2021 12:57:53 PM (No. 1006752)
Allahpundit's hatred of Donald Trump is beyond boring. He hates Trump and hates the fact that with each passing day, more and more Americans long for Trump's return.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
singermom9 12/14/2021 1:01:57 PM (No. 1006758)
Ya know that in 3rd world countries when you defeat your opponent you kill them. That is what dems do.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 12/14/2021 1:03:33 PM (No. 1006759)
All of the emails she read said, in effect, "This is wrong." How does that make anyone a hypocrite?
We know that no true Trump follower would ever use the US flag as a weapon, dress all in black and cover their faces, deface the Capitol building, destroy property, intentionally harm another person especially law enforcement.
I can see that people could get caught up in the moment and get rowdy but crossing the line into destruction, not people who use their brains. There is a lot of video of people begging the police to intervene while they stood by, others urging calm, some calling out "Fed" when a "Trump supporter" was encouraging violence.
This was planned ahead of time for sure, just not by the people they are claiming.
P.S. I can't stand Chaney and I cannot believe I ever fell for the whole Bush thing.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/14/2021 1:05:46 PM (No. 1006765)
They're trying to frame Trump as a strategy to keep him from running again. However the committee is illegal - they haven't followed the rules for forming such a committee - and they have too few members, so...
Suck eggs...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 12/14/2021 1:07:15 PM (No. 1006769)
She's brandishing her credentials to become a contributor on CNN after she gets voted out next fall.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 12/14/2021 1:11:18 PM (No. 1006772)
When does a "difference of opinion" become a crime?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
jinx 12/14/2021 1:19:10 PM (No. 1006775)
Didn't he ask Pelosi for the National Guard to help out? She turned him down. Can we now try her for allowing it to happen.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/14/2021 1:20:17 PM (No. 1006778)
The only goal of the Leftist nutcases is to ensure that President Trump does not win a second term; they could care less about Jan 6.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 12/14/2021 1:20:25 PM (No. 1006779)
What a disgraceful, immoral woman she is. Congress does not have unlimited investigative powers. This witch hunt in no way furthers any legislative purpose and is thus clearly unconstitutional.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/14/2021 1:22:03 PM (No. 1006781)
An indictment would be an expensive proposition for FPDT. The mere "bi-partisan" finding would put a crimp in the "comeback" for '24. Lawyers don't come cheap...and Sidney, Rudy and Lin have their own problems, while Kim Kardashian isn't ready for the big time.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/14/2021 1:23:26 PM (No. 1006785)
Once that riot was ongoing any statement by Trump would have been useless, as who thinks the the rioters would have stopped rioting to stand and listen to a statement by Trump and then pack up and go home?
Until recently federal crimes were investigated by law enforcement entities of the Department of Justice, along with federal grand juries that decided if suspects should be indicted or not. But now Pelosi has set up what amounts to a political inquisition consisting of anti-Trump and leftist and socialist Democrats seeking to put Trump and has many of his close White House staffers as possible in jail to keep Trump from running for President in 2024 as they ignore all the real pressing problems facing the USA Today.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
columba 12/14/2021 1:28:04 PM (No. 1006788)
Liberal descriptions of January 6th always use "mob" "insurrection" "violent" ... and I am tired of reading the same old book. I prefer words that indicate truthfully that "Trump Won".
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
MaMe2 12/14/2021 1:38:00 PM (No. 1006803)
She aligns herself with people who loathe her father. Maybe she doesn't like him too much either. Could it be that her sister was the golden child and Lizzie has sour grapes?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
terrywhite 12/14/2021 2:08:12 PM (No. 1006838)
Our government wastes more time, money, and resources on non-existence issues or perceived crimes, attempting to punish political opponents, instead of addressing real, critical concerns facing Americans such as illegal immigration, for example, and, then, they wonder why people become so frustrated and enraged that they would protest at the capital and allow that protest to get a little out of hand. It is not hard at all to understand what caused Jan. 06. And, yet, instead of recognizing their behavior as a central cause, they double down and continue their nonsensical search.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/14/2021 2:28:26 PM (No. 1006853)
Liz Cheney has become the female Adam Schiff. She is full of accusations and blather about Trump and his crimes, but she is really just full of shiff. Cheney knows she is toast in the next election. She knows she is going down and wants to take anyone down along with her she can.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
hershey 12/14/2021 2:34:20 PM (No. 1006863)
Hey Cheny...why don't you stuff it???? We know who the criminals are and it isn't Trump...
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ronniethek 12/14/2021 3:23:47 PM (No. 1006917)
Total bullspit.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/14/2021 3:31:54 PM (No. 1006929)
What a crock. Had Trump dispatched the National Guard to deal with the instigators, he would now stand accused of assaulting FBI agents.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/14/2021 4:10:21 PM (No. 1006970)
Part of the Washington government crackdown is to make sure Trump never runs again. Had enough?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
FormerDem 12/14/2021 4:31:26 PM (No. 1006987)
Good idea, bring him back into the limelight, I will be so happy to see and hear from him again. Hi! Hi!
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If I want to hear the opinion of Allahpundit, I will just watch CNN or MSNBC.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Krause 12/14/2021 5:30:50 PM (No. 1007054)
I think Cheney and Schiff have something going on, perhaps. They sound alike!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
formerNYer 12/14/2021 6:09:20 PM (No. 1007101)
#6 that's the idea so he CAN'T run again - they know he'll win again for the 3rd time - there are some very powerful people that fear another Trump Presidency. Be afraid be very afraid.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
padiva 12/14/2021 6:11:16 PM (No. 1007104)
Sweetie, your fantasy is not reality!
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Namma 12/14/2021 6:13:42 PM (No. 1007106)
notice lizzy only read the names of certain Trump supporters. I want to know who wrote the nameless text messages.
Without names, they are nothing but fake texts.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/14/2021 6:52:26 PM (No. 1007139)
It is not the job of the Congress to build cases. I thought the police did that, after probable cause. They have no case.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
kono 12/14/2021 7:07:59 PM (No. 1007148)
Google Facebook Youtube, Kid Cheney. If you tried to build an IKEA bookcase, it would turn out something like a board with some bent nails in it.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
edgar 12/14/2021 7:19:58 PM (No. 1007153)
They are just throwing more schiff against the wall, hoping they can get something to stick.
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This wasn't on Trump, this is on Pelosi and Schumer and Turtle, for it is their offices which denied the backup. Don't those kids of Trump get it yet? This is not on their dad.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/14/2021 9:26:46 PM (No. 1007264)
Of course they are TRYING to build the case against Trump
Tell us something we don't already know.
That is the purpose of the whole thing.
Cheney is something that need to be scraped off the Republicans shoes before the stench is tracked all over the place.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Luckychosenfew 12/15/2021 2:46:14 AM (No. 1007396)
Of course they are! That was the plan all along, not to investigate but to politically make a revenge case to attempt to crucify one of the best Presidents that the USA has ever had!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
mifla 12/15/2021 5:26:35 AM (No. 1007446)
I think I have seen this movie a couple of times. I know how it ends.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
broken01 12/15/2021 9:51:59 AM (No. 1007766)
Good luck with that you witless partisan hag.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
JackBurton 12/15/2021 12:51:28 PM (No. 1008037)
Trump asked for troops and a greater Capitol Police presence. He didn't get it. Who was responsible for THAT?
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