Among the first targets of former President Donald Trump this year on his knock-off social media site Truth Social was Liz Cheney, the former GOP Congresswoman from Wyoming known for confronting Trump’s election lies from within the Republican Party. Trump made baseless allegations that Cheney was involved in extensive deletion of evidence from her time helping lead the House committee that investigated the Capitol riot and events leading up to it.
There’s no clear indication that what Trump alleges actually happened, and in fact, the panel that Cheney helped steer made a public release of a sweeping portion of evidence. “Seems like someone is starting 2024 hangry. @realDonaldTrump – you and your lawyers have had the J6 cmttee materials (linked below) plus the grand jury info & much more for months. Lying about the evidence in all caps won’t change the facts. A public trial will show it all,” Cheney posted on X, the platform formerly called Twitter.
Trump’s accusations to which Cheney was responding were direct. “Why did American Disaster Liz Cheney, who suffers from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), and was defeated for Congress by the largest margin for a sitting Congressman or Congresswoman in the history of our Country, ILLEGALLY DELETE & DESTROY most of the evidence, and related items, from the January 6th Committee of Political Thugs and Misfits,” he queried.
He has made similar claims of federal prosecutors, contending at one point to be facing materials missing from productions during discovery, meaning transfers from the federal government of various, case-related files during the routine, pre-trial period when such items are shared. Those claims amid one of his criminal cases also failed.
“In making this claim, the defendant fails to inform the Court of (or include as an attachment) the Government’s August 22, 2023, discovery production letter in which the Government details that it was producing that day exactly what the defendant now claims is missing—“relevant materials from the email boxes, mobile devices, and select files” of senior Department of Justice leadership during the defendant’s administration, broken out in the Source Log by specific custodian,” a past filing in court from the prosecution team behind Trump’s January 6-related case said. The filing is from just last month.
Seems like someone is starting 2024 hangry. @realDonaldTrump – you and your lawyers have had the J6 cmttee materials (linked below) plus the grand jury info & much more for months. Lying about the evidence in all caps won’t change the facts. A public trial will show it all. https://t.co/9IlGWIviey
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) January 2, 2024
