Liz Cheney calls new House speaker ‘dangerous’ for January 6 role

Liz Cheney said: ‘It’s a concerning moment to have him be elected speaker of the House.’ Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters

The new Republican speaker of the US House, Mike Johnson, is “dangerous” due to his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the former Wyoming Republican congresswoman and January 6 committee vice-chair Liz Cheney said.

“He was acting in ways that he knew to be wrong,” Cheney told Politics Is Everything, a podcast from the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “And I think that the country unfortunately will come to see the measure of his character.”