House January 6 select committee vice-chair Liz Cheney said the panel’s upcoming hearings will disprove Republican claims that the probe is “tainted and political”.
In an opinion column published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, the Wyoming Republican representative said the select committee will use public hearings to show lies told by former president Donald Trump and his allies “provoked the violence on January 6th,” the day a mob of the ex-president’s supporters stormed the Capitol in the worst attack on America’s legislature since the 1814 Burning of Washington.
