Liz Cheney Calls Out ‘Total Crackpot’ Elise Stefanik Over Jan. 6 Denial

WASHINGTON ― Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) slammed Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) for her ongoing efforts to downplay the Jan. 6, 2021, rebel on the U.S Capitol.

Stefanik has referred to the Donald Trump supporters arrested for attacking the Capitol as “hostages” and on Tuesday known as the particular committee that investigated the assault a “sham” in a press release.

In response, Cheney, the previous vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee, pointed to Stefanik’s assertion from the day of the assault, the place she known as it a “tragic day for America” and mentioned, “The perpetrators of this un-American violence and destruction must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

Cheney described the previous assertion as a “rare moment of honesty” from Stefanik.

“One day she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot,” Cheney wrote on X, previously Twitter.

One potential rationalization for Stefanik’s embrace of the rioters who stormed the Capitol is that she is auditioning to be Trump’s vp. Stefanik campaigned for Trump in New Hampshire this week as he seeks the Republican presidential nomination. Her star has risen whereas Cheney was chased out of workplace for her frequent criticism of Trump by Republicans.

Stefanik’s sham comment is in reference to claims Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) lately made in regards to the Jan. 6 committee. Loudermilk, a md of a House Administration subcommittee conducting a counter-investigation into the particular committee, alleged in a Fox News story Monday that the committee deleted a few of its recordsdata as an alternative of turning them throughout to his subcommittee, opposite to House guidelines. It’s not clear what materials Loudermilk’s on the lookout for.

“It should come as a surprise to no one that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney’s fake committee illegally deleted records of their sham investigation and obstructed justice,” Stefanik mentioned in her assertion. “I applaud Congressman Loudermilk’s efforts to find and decrypt these deleted files and stand by his efforts to bring transparency and accountability.”

Loudermilk has mentioned his subcommittee is investigating “what really happened” on Jan. 6, insinuating that it was one thing aside from a riot by Trump supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. Some Republicans have bogusly advised it was by some means a setup by the FBI.

At the course of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Loudermilk’s subcommittee has been releasing safety digital camera footage from the assault, however blurring rioters’ faces to guard them from the Justice Department.