On Monday, the Republican already filed a complaint against a daily and a pollster who had given him the loser in Iowa before the presidential election, a procedure which fueled fears of an open war against the media.
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He also appointed a loyalist to head the federal police, the FBI. In 2023, Kash Patel assured that as director of the FBI, police agencies would “go after” journalists as well as certain officials of the Biden administration.
Liz Cheney has for several years become the voice of anti-Trump within the Republican camp, but lost her seat in Congress in 2022 to a Trumpist. The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney recently campaigned alongside Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee in November’s presidential election.
“Job well done”
When the Republicans regained the majority in the lower house of Congress in 2022, a handful of Trumpist elected officials set up a subcommittee responsible for investigating “the failures and politicization of the commission on January 6” .
A way of returning the favor to the Democrats with regard to this commission – of which Liz Cheney was vice-president – which damned Donald Trump for his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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The report published Tuesday by this subcommittee accuses the former Republican elected official of witness tampering, for having, according to them, been in collusion with a former official of the Trump administration who testified against the Republican before the commission of 6- January.
Liz Cheney subsequently defended her work, calling the report by Trumpist elected officials a “sneaky and cowardly attack on the truth.”
“January 6 showed the true face of Donald Trump, that of a cruel and vindictive man,” she wrote in a statement on the Bluesky social network.
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In his publication on Truth Social on Wednesday, Donald Trump thanked the elected Republican head of the subcommittee, Barry Loudermilk, “for a job well done”.
Several American media recently reported that Joe Biden was considering using his presidential prerogatives to pardon several elected officials and senior American officials threatened with prosecution by the Republican camp once Donald Trump returns to the White House.
Preventive pardons before the end of the term of the Democratic president from which Liz Cheney could notably benefit, according to Politico.
