The hypocrisy of disgraced former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has been exposed by damaging texts showing that she secretly spoke with a “star witness” in the Democrats’ anti-Trump on Jan. 6 “investigations.”
Cheney, a member of the Democrats’ Jan. 6 House Select Committee, spoke with the witness without informing her attorney.
The texts reveal that Cheney communicated with anti-Trump witness Cassidy Hutchinson via Signal, an encrypted messaging app.
The messages were obtained by a congressional committee, as Breitbart News reported.
Hutchinson communicated with the ex-congresswoman both directly and via her political strategist, Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
During Hutchinson’s brief fame, Cheney allegedly assisted her in hiring new attorneys who would have been more receptive to the viewpoint of the House January 6 Select Committee.
According to the New York Post, Cheney contacted President Donald Trump’s former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin.
Cheney also later directly contacted Hutchinson to compel further testimony.
She sought to have Hutchinson appear for a primetime televised hearing about the 45th president’s alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests.
“Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson’s juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were later found to be false, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book ‘Oath and Honor’ about the riot,” the media outlet said.
The actions and communications of Cheney are being characterized as ethical violations.
In an ironic turn of events, Cheney requested criminal referrals for “anybody who attempted to influence witness testimony” during the January 6 committee meeting.
In the past, she also accused Trump of attempting to contact a Jan. 6 witness and reported the incident to the Department of Justice.
Once more, an act of projection appears to be at play, as Cheney appears to have performed the actions she falsely alleged Trump was guilty of.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who is the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, is furious about the texts’ discovery and claims that Cheney “apparently defied her ethical responsibilities” as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, which he described as acting more like an inquisition panel than a body seeking truth.
“Hutchinson began texting with Griffin in April 2022, two months before the made-for-TV hearings aired, claiming she had additional evidence that might be relevant to the select committee’s investigation,” the Post wrote.
“The two met at Griffin’s Georgetown home and reportedly discussed that Trump had ‘agreed’ with the Capitol mob’s chants of ‘Hang Mike Pence’ during the melee that temporarily halted the certification of the 2020 electoral count.”
Griffin wrote on Signal on April 28, 2022, that Cheney’s coordination of further testimony for May 17, 2022, without her then-lawyer Stefan Passantino was unethical.
“Her one concern was so long ad [sic] you have counsel, she can’t really ethically talk to you without him,” Griffin told Hutchinson at the time.
Hutchinson would go on to testify for a third sitting the following month, providing “unverified” anti-Trump stories to feed the corporate media machine.
“Hutchinson sent Signal messages directly to Cheney requesting ‘a private conversation’ on June 6, 2022, three days before the first televised committee hearing,” the Post recounted.
“Around the same time, Hutchinson rejected Passantino as her counsel, and lawyers from Alston and Bird, Jody Hunt, and Bill Jordan, began representing the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pro bono.”
The media site reported that Loudermilk’s panel noted a “dramatic change in testimony and eventual claims against President Trump using second- and third-hand accounts.”
Hutchinson testified three more times before the Jan. 6 committee.
During her salacious testimony, Hutchinson falsely claimed that the 45th president had rushed for the wheel of his Secret Service limousine, called “the Beast.”
These claims were debunked by Secret Service agents and witnesses, however.
It later emerged that Hutchinson wasn’t in the vehicle at the time and was just repeating a rumor she heard – an important detail that wasn’t mentioned during the hearing.
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