Fifty-seven percent of American likely voters want the FBI to investigate former Representative Liz Cheney for her role in the committee that investigated the January 6 riot, according to Rasmussen Reports.
House Republicans released a report on December 17 accusing Cheney of witness tampering.
“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney,” the report says.
The report recommends the FBI investigate Cheney for these alleged violations and for “violating 18 U.S.C. 1622, which prohibits any person from procuring another person to commit perjury.”
In the report, the House GOP says Cheney tampered with January 6 Select Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson by secretly communicating with the former Trump administration worker without telling her attorney.
“Hutchinson committed perjury when she lied under oath to the Select Committee. Additionally, Hutchinson was interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into President Trump,” the report details.
Following the release of the report, Cheney said that the report “intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee’s tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did.”
“Their allegations do not reflect a review of the actual evidence, and are a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth. No reputable lawyer, legislator or judge would take this seriously,” she said, according to The Hill.
After Cheney’s statement about the House report, Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA-11) said Cheney and Representative Bennie Thompson (D-M-02) are attempting to say his “investigation disregarded the truth of January 6.”
“Cheney claims the Select Committee’s report was based on the testimony of hundreds of witnesses, whose testimony was made public. However, Cheney and Thompson did not make ALL transcripts public,” he said. “They hid transcripts of first-hand witnesses who directly refuted their ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson’s sensational story, which Cheney had personally procured.”
Also, the Rasmussen poll found that 40 percent of likely U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of Cheney. Forty-two percent of these people viewed her unfavorably, and 17 percent were not sure.
The sampling error for this poll was plus or minus 3 percent.
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Zachery Schmidt is the digital editor of The Star News Network. Email tips to Zachery at [email protected]. Follow Zachery on Twitter @zacheryschmidt2.
Background Photo “January 6 Riot” by Tyler Merbler. CC BY 2.0.
