The hypocrisy of former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney has been exposed by damaging texts showing that she secretly spoke with a witness on January 6th, without informing her attorney.
The texts demonstrating Cheney's communication with Cassidy Hutchinson via Signal were obtained by a congressional committee, as Breitbart News reported.
Hutchinson communicated with the ex-representative 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 6th Select Committee.
According to the New York Post, Cheney (R-WY) contacted former Donald Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin and later directly to compel further testimony and have Hutchinson appear for a primetime televised hearing about the 45th president's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“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 6th committee meeting.
In the past, she also accused former President Trump of attempting to contact a J6 witness and reported the incident to the Department of Justice. Once more, projection appears to be at play, as Cheney appears to have performed the actions she falsely alleged Trump did.
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 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,” the Post wrote.
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” stories.
“Hutchinson sent Signal messages directly to Cheney requesting ‘a private conversation’ on June 6, 2022, three days before the first televised committee hearing. 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 Post recounted.
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, saying spectacularly that the 45th president had rushed for the wheel of his Secret Service limousine, called ‘the Beast,’ to join his Capitol mob disputing the 2020 election count.
