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Published 11:18 22 Jun 2021 GMT
Congresswoman Liz Cheney reportedly spent almost $60,000 on private security after receiving death threats for opposing Donald Trump.
The 54-year-old Republican was one of 10 lawmakers who backed the impeachment of the former US president, voting alongside Tom Rice, Dan Newhouse, Adam Kinzinger, Anthony Gonzalez, Fred Upton, Jaime Herrera Beutler, Peter Meijer, John Katko, and David Valadao.
Watch Cheney speak out about Trump in the video below:Per The New York Times, Federal Election Commission records show that Cheney spent around $58,000 on security between January and March.
FEC records show that Cheney was also temporarily assigned special protection by the Capitol Police while in the District of Columbia - which is unusual for a member of Congress not in a leadership position.
Cheney was ousted from her position as House Republican Conference chairwoman after she attempted to impeach the former POTUS for his alleged role in the Capitol riots.
Per The Hill, Cheney stated during a floor speech a day before she was removed from Republican leadership: "Every one of us who has sworn the oath must act to prevent the unraveling of our democracy.
"This is not about policy. This is not about partisanship. This is about our duty as Americans. Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that.
"I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law, and joins the former president's crusade to undermine our democracy."
The Independent reports that the former POTUS previously slated Cheney after she was ousted from her position, stating: "Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being. I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party.
"She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our country. She is a talking point for Democrats, whether that means the border, the gas lines, inflation, or destroying our economy."
Trump also disparaged her father, former VEEP Dick Cheney, adding: "She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our great military, the worst decision in our country’s history."
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Published 14:35 12 May 2021 GMT
House Republican conference chair Liz Cheney has been from her post of conference chair after a voice vote by party members.
Cheney was removed from the position for refusing to buy into Donald Trump's stance that the 2020 election was stolen from him, NBC News reports.
During the 20-minute closed-door meeting on Wednesday, Cheney was voted out of her post after telling her party members: "We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country.
"We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language. We have seen his lack of commitment and dedication to the Constitution, and I think it's very important that we make sure whomever we elect is somebody who will be faithful to the Constitution."
After the vote, Cheney vowed to do everything in her power to ensure Trump never gets near the Oval Office ever again.
She's expected to be replaced in her former role by Representative Elise Stefanik of New York. Stefanik was famously a one-time Trump critic, before becoming a Trump loyalist.
It wasn't long before Trump hit out at Cheney following the removal from her post.
The former POTUS wrote in his personal blog post: "Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being. I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party. She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our country. She is a talking point for Democrats, whether that means the border, the gas lines, inflation, or destroying our economy."
Bringing in her father, former vice president Dick Cheney, Trump went on: "She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our great military, the worst decision in our country’s history. I look forward to soon watching her as a paid contributor on CNN or MSDNC!"
Prior to the vote, Trump headed over to his personal blog - From The Desk of Donald J. Trump - to hit out at Cheney as he urged party members to vote her out.
In the blog post, he wrote: "The Republicans in the House of Representatives have a great opportunity today to rid themselves of a poor leader, a major Democrat talking point, a warmonger, and a person with absolutely no personality or heart.
"As a representative of the Great State of Wyoming, Liz Cheney is bad for our Country and bad for herself. Almost everyone in the Republican Party, including 90% of Wyoming, looks forward to her ouster—and that includes me!"
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Published 16:25 25 Jan 2021 GMT
A Republican senator has warned that former Democratic presidents could be impeached along with Donald Trump.
According to The Guardian, on Saturday, January 23, Texas Republican senator John Cornyn tweeted at House majority leader Chuck Schumer, stating that, if Republicans retake Congress in two years’ time, they could attempt to prosecute past Democrat presidents.
Watch Donald trump address his second impeachment in this White House address:Schumer tweeted: "Our plan will allow us to do President Biden’s nominations, COVID relief, and the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. As we said, we can get all three done, and we will."
But then Cornyn wrote in reply: "No, it takes unanimous consent. But you already knew that.
"BTW, if it is a good idea to impeach and try former Presidents, what about former Democratic Presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022? Think about it and let’s do what is best for the country."
This statement comes not long after Marjorie Taylor Greene, Representative for Georgia's 14th congressional district, took to Twitter to post a video claiming that she had filed articles of impeachment against Biden the day after his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States.
The Republican Congresswoman took to Twitter again, on Thursday, January 21, to post a full statement, in which she claimed that Biden was "unfit to hold the office of the Presidency."
She wrote:
"President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency.
"His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama's Vice President is lengthy and disturbing.
"President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family's pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies.'"
The Independent reports that Greene had filed articles alleging that Joe Biden moved to block vital aid to Ukraine during the Obama administration in order to protect his son Hunter from corruption charges.
The publication goes on to report that a Senate investigation by Republicans in 2020 found no evidence of corruption and no evidence that Hunter's work for Burisma had any influence on US foreign policy.
Greene initially announced her plans to file articles of impeachment against Biden on January 13. Taking to Twitter, she shared with her 281K followers: "On January 21, 2021, I'll be filing Articles of Impeachment against Joe Biden for abuse of power."
Twitter suspended Greene's account for 12 hours on Saturday after Greene consistently violated the platform's new rules that were put in place following the deadly US Capitol riot on January 6.
A Twitter spokesperson told NBC News: "The account referenced has been temporarily locked out for multiple violations of our civic integrity policy."
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Published 12:43 16 Oct 2025 GMT
The conservative reporter whom former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi snapped at outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday has now been identified.
The confrontation came as the 85-year-old California Democrat was being helped down the Capitol steps by an aide. Alison Steinberg, a reporter for LindellTV, a far-right outlet owned by MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell, pressed Pelosi about her role in Capitol security failures during the 2021 riot.
“Congresswoman Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the new January 6th committee will find you liable for that day?” Steinberg asked. “Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6th?”
Pelosi quickly cut her off: “Shut up! I did not refuse the National Guard. The president didn’t send it.”
She then turned on the reporter, asking, “Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”
Steinberg, who has previously posted images of herself protesting Pelosi, ended her questioning by saying, “The American people want to know. We still have questions. Thank you.”
The exchange reignites a long-running political battle over who was responsible for the security breakdown at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Trump and his allies have claimed he authorized National Guard deployment ahead of his rally, suggesting Pelosi blocked it. However, former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, appointed by Trump, testified to the House Select Committee that no such order was given.
“I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature,” Miller told the committee, per Yahoo.
Adding to that, official military protocol clarifies that the D.C. National Guard does not report to the Speaker of the House. According to the DC National Guard’s own website, it answers solely to the President via the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army.
Though Pelosi has denied rejecting help from the National Guard, footage filmed by her daughter, Alexandria, during the January 6 riot suggests she took partial responsibility for the lack of preparation.
In a video published by Republicans on the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Pelosi is seen speaking to her chief of staff while fleeing the Capitol: “They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepared for more," cited by Daily Mail.
“We have totally failed,” she added. “We have to take responsibility for not holding the security accountable for what could have happened.”
In the same footage, Pelosi appeared visibly frustrated. “Oh my God, I cannot believe the stupidity of this,” she said from the backseat of a vehicle speeding through the Capitol garage. “And I take the full responsibility.”
She also scolded an aide for asking about National Guard involvement mid-crisis: “You’re going to ask me - in the middle of the thing when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff - ‘should we call the Capitol Police?’ I mean the National Guard. This is ridiculous.”
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who is leading a new Republican-led select subcommittee reviewing the events of January 6, said the footage contradicts the previous committee’s conclusions and Pelosi’s own narrative.
“Pelosi’s J6 Select Committee spent taxpayer’s money chasing false political narratives and using Hollywood producers for their ‘investigation,’” Loudermilk said. “Her admission of responsibility directly contradicts their own narrative.”
He added in a statement to the New York Post following Wednesday’s outburst: “While Dems seem keen on playing political games and doubling down on the predetermined political narrative of Pelosi’s former committee, Republicans will continue to pursue the facts in an objective manner, no matter where they lead.”
Meanwhile, former Army Colonel Earl Matthews has come forward as a whistleblower for the new committee, claiming that military officials, specifically then-Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley and then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, believed Trump might try to use the military to interfere with election certification.
Matthews told the Daily Mail that Milley and McCarthy “unreasonably” assumed Trump would deploy the National Guard to stop the certification of the 2020 election results and had allegedly discussed disobeying such an order if it came.
While Wednesday’s confrontation may have ended with Pelosi walking away, the political fight over accountability for January 6 remains far from over. But as Pelosi made clear on the Capitol steps, she’s not backing down, but neither are her opponents.
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Published 13:11 10 Jun 2021 GMT
A 22-year-old man has been charged after allegedly impersonating members of Donald Trump's family and conning the former POTUS' supporters out of thousands of dollars.
According to the Justice Department, Joshua Hall made an appearance in federal court on Tuesday, June 8, after being charged with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
Per People, in November, even Trump himself was duped into believing one of Hall's accounts belonged to his sister Elizabeth Trump Grau. Hall is accused of duping hundreds of others out of more than $7,000 after promoting a fake organization.
The federal complaint against him states:
"Hall defrauded hundreds of victims by making false representations in the course of raising funds for a purported political affinity organization (the Fictitious Political Organization), for the ostensible purpose of supporting the reelection of the individual who was at that time serving as President of the United States (the President).
"However, the Fictitious Political Organization did not exist and Halll used the funds for his own personal living expenses."
As reported by The New York Times, Hall had set up a number of fake accounts for members of Trump's family in 2020. Using the profiles, he posed as Trump's older sister, his late brother Robert Trump, and his teenage son, Barron Trump.
The federal complaint goes on to allege that Hall "used those accounts to amass more than 100,000 followers on social media."
While pretending to be the 74-year-old ex-president's brother Robert, who passed away in August, Hall allegedly began taking advantage of followers of the fraudulent profile by promoting a fake organization known as "Gay Voices for Trump".
According to The Times, the organization received more than $7,000 in GoFundMe donations. However, Hall claims he never actually withdrew the GoFundMe money, yet a spokesperson for the fund-raising company says that he did.
In a statement on Tuesday, FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said Hall "led hundreds of people to believe they were donating to an organization that didn't exist by pretending to be someone he wasn't, as alleged."
Hall could be facing as much as 20 years in prison if found guilty of wire fraud and a mandatory two-year sentence for identity theft.
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Published 18:29 22 Jul 2024 GMT
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