Liz Cheney’s Latest Trump ‘Bombshell’ May Be Her Dumbest, Most Inconsistent Yet – Opinion

RedState has reported that Liz Cheney was due to interview ABC News yesterday to discuss January 6th. What else could she possibly be talking about?

Imagine being from Wyoming, having voted to elect Cheney to actually govern only to watch her hobnob with Nancy Pelosi and spin conspiracy theories about insurrection-that-wasn’t her whole term. Do you think maybe there’s some buyer’s remorse going on in the Cowboy State?

But that’s where we are, and Cheney did not disappoint once the interview aired. In what may be her dumbest “bombshell” to date, overtaking her release of the texts of several Fox News hosts, Cheney let it be known that Trump watched the breach of the Capitol Building on TV. And you may want to sit down for this, but apparently, someone testified that Ivanka Trump went into the room and asked him to “stop” the violence twice.

It is Gitmo-worthy.

Liz Cheney – We are able to testify that Ivanka his daughter went to him at least twice and asked him to end the violence pic.twitter.com/EqdSKvvmRm

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 2, 2022

January 6th fanatics will take this just as they took every random Robert Mueller “bombshell,” package it with their pre-determined narrative, and proclaim the walls are closing in. The rest of us will sit back and ask exactly what Cheney thinks she’s proving here.

Let’s game this out. Is it surprising that Trump watched what was happening? Second, even if Ivanka Trump asked him to intervene, it’s quite obvious that he did not have the ability to do so. For example, let’s imagine that I walked into the basement and asked Joe Biden to stop all the murders in Chicago. Yet, if he has no power to do so, me asking him that doesn’t then prove he’s responsible for all the murders in Chicago, right? I’m sure Ivanka Trump, seeing what was unfolding, wanted her father to do something, but reality dictated that there was essentially nothing he You couldWait for authorities to take charge.

This reality is not in dispute. Trump asked his crowd to protest, with a few of them ejecting to the Capitol. Within minutes, Trump sent out another tweet asking for respect from the Capitol Police. He did not listen in any case to the other January 6th participants. However, we believe that he was able to turn off the violence by using a simple switch. This further Twitter message would have stopped all hostilities. That’s really Cheney’s argument here?

Her accusations are also inconsistent.

Rep. Liz Cheney argues for the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. “Trump will likely again this week make the same false allegations about the election he knows are false, and the same false accusations about the election he knew caused violence on January 6. pic.twitter.com/kz0AuW0ZTt

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) January 2, 2022

Which is it then? Did January 6th represent a planned attack by Donald Trump that could not have been stopped? Or was it a spontaneous action driven by Trump’s public proclamations about voter fraud, which would dictate that he otherwise had no direct ability to stop it? Because it can’t be both. Trump could have been in control of the event, meaning that the attack occurred regardless of Trump’s public rhetoric. Or, Trump may be the cause, and the people were acting on their own initiative after having been indirectly incited.

Cheney could make a choice. This whole thing makes it seem like Cheney and her coworkers are just trying to push everything against the wall in hopes that anything sticks. As the January 6th Committee pushes forward, it becomes more apparent that the committee has nothing to offer and this entire thing is political.

Where’s the proof of a coordinated insurrection we were promised? Instead, the narrative has been reduced to an improbable insinuation that Trump didn’t order people he had no control over to do something fast enough. It’s weak, and a colossal waste of time when the country is facing a slew of real, impactful issues. It’s also going to backfire, not just on Cheney, but on the Democrat Party as well.