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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Liz Cheney: controversial NBC hire Ronna McDaniel enabled Trump ‘depravity’

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Liz Cheney was vice-chair of the House January 6 committee. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

The Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “enabled criminality and depravity” in her support for Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, the former congresswoman Liz Cheney said as controversy swirled over McDaniel’s media role.

“Ronna facilitated Trump’s corrupt fake elector plot and his effort to pressure Michigan officials not to certify the legitimate election outcome,” Cheney, a Republican who was vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, wrote on social media.

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