Elections

BREAKING: Liz Cheney officially ousted as GOP conference chair

Published

2 years ago

May 12, 2021

Staff Writer

DEVELOPING

The House Republicans have officially ousted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her position as GOP Conference Chair with a voice vote Wednesday.

And it’s official: Cheney is OUT as GOP conference chair after a speedy voice vote, per sources in the room.
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) May 12, 2021

Cheney addressed reporters that were waiting outside the room where the vote took place. She told them she did not feel betrayed by her party because of the vote.

However she doubled down on her disdain for former President Trump, telling reporters she will fight against his reelection. “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office,” Cheney said.

According to a statement Wednesday morning, Trump was looking forward to her removal, calling it “a great opportunity.” “As a representative of the Great State of Wyoming, Liz Cheney is bad for our Country and bad for herself,” Trump wrote on his blog. “Almost everyone in the Republican Party, including 90% of Wyoming, looks forward to her ouster—and that includes me!”

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) echoed Trump’s statement following the vote. Gaetz called the vote “the right decision.”

The Republican Conference made the right decision today to remove Liz Cheney as Chair.
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) May 12, 2021

However Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) disagreed, calling the vote “a flashing red danger sign for our democracy.”

Political parties that promote lies and propaganda are setting their countries up for authoritarianism and fascism. The cancellation of Liz Cheney by Trump and the GOP is a flashing red danger sign for our democracy. https://t.co/deww4Ca5OR
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) May 12, 2021

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) also disagreed with the vote. “Now,” Schiff tweeted, the Republican party is “the party of lies, with one lie bigger than the rest.”

House Republicans just ousted Liz Cheney from leadership.

Because they’re now the party of lies, with one lie bigger than the rest.

She stated a simple fact: The election was not stolen.

In a party that places loyalty to Trump over principle, there is no room for the truth.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 12, 2021

Leading up to the vote, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) warned that ousting Cheney from the 3rd highest position in the party could lose the Republican party voters.

Expelling Liz Cheney from leadership won’t gain the GOP one additional voter, but it will cost us quite a few.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) May 10, 2021

Cheney railed against Utah voters for booing Romney during the state GOP conference last week.

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Elections

Biden impeachment hearing to begin this week, GOP announces first witnesses

Published

21 hours ago

September 26, 2023

Sara Carter Staff

The House Overusing Committee is holding the first impeachment hearing into President Joe Biden this Thursday and has announced the first three interview witnesses. The impeachment process will assess whether then Vice President Joe Biden received a bribe from a Ukrainian businessman to change the outcome of U.S. policy.

The committee announced three witnesses, including George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, former Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice Tax Division Eileen O’Connor, and forensic accountant Bruce Dubinsky.

“Since January, House Committees on Oversight and Accountability, Judiciary, and Ways and Means have uncovered an overwhelming amount of evidence showing President Joe Biden abused his public office for his family’s financial gain,” said Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) who also made the following lengthy statements:

“Thousands of pages of financial records, emails, texts, testimony from credible IRS whistleblowers, and a transcribed interview with Biden family business associate Devon Archer all reveal that Joe Biden allowed his family to sell him as ‘the brand’ around the world to enrich the Biden family. Joe Biden showed up on at least two dozen occasions to send signals of access, influence, and power to those who were paying the Bidens.”

“Based on the evidence, Congress has a duty to open an impeachment inquiry into President Biden’s corruption. Americans demand and deserve answers, transparency, and accountability for this abuse of public office…This week, the House Oversight Committee will present evidence uncovered to date and hear from legal and financial experts about crimes the Bidens may have committed as they brought in millions at the expense of U.S. interests.”

Just The News reports: Prompting the impeachment inquiry is an unclassified FD-1023 form that contains confidential human source information outlining an alleged bribery effort. The tip describes an arrangement in which Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky allegedly hired Hunter Biden to secure access to his father, upon whom he leaned to secure the firing of then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the firm.