Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman who ended her political career by opposing President-elect Donald Trump and most recently endorsed Kamala Harris, has been turned over for prosecution by her former colleagues.
A new report by a Republican-led U.S. House subcommittee concludes that Cheney is criminally liable for tampering with evidence introduced while she co-chaired a bipartisan select committee examining the January 6th, 2021, breach at the Capitol. The hearings, which she led alongside Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA), largely placed the blame on Trump for the violence that occurred that day. Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chair of the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, writes in the report that he believes Cheney is guilty of witness tampering, a felony that carries up to 20 years in prison.
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“Over the past twenty-four months of this investigation, my subcommittee staff have faced incredible obstacles in pursuit of the truth; missing and deleted documents, hidden evidence, unaccounted for video footage, and uncooperative bureaucrats,” Loudermilk writes in the report, a preface that covers the committee’s first report detailing security lapses in the Capitol building on J6.
“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee,