Former No. 3 Home Republican Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) recirculated Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) assertion on the Jan. 6 Capitol assault after the present Home GOP Convention Chair reportedly deleted it off her web site.
On Tuesday, Cheney shared on X, previously generally known as Twitter, a hyperlink to Stefanik’s now-deleted assertion about Jan. 6.
After sharing Stefanik’s assertion, it was deleted from the New York congresswoman’s web page, which now solely displays the “ERROR” message.
On Saturday morning, Cheney posted on X that she was knowledgeable that Stefanik deleted her assertion about Jan. 6 the place she known as for the Jan. 6 perpetrators to be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the regulation.” Cheney additionally shared the screenshot of Stefanik’s assertion.
In her assertion on the Capitol riot, Stefanik characterised the violence as “anti-American” and known as it a “tragic.”
“That is really a tragic day for America,” Stefanik mentioned within the assertion on Jan. 6, 2021. “I totally condemn the harmful violence and destruction that occurred right now at the US Capitol. Individuals have a Constitutional proper to protest and freedom of speech, however violence in any kind is completely unacceptable and anti-American. The perpetrators of this un-American violence and destruction have to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the regulation.”
Stefanik has since modified the way in which she describes those that stormed the Capitol.
Throughout an look on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in early January, she stated she had “considerations concerning the remedy of Jan. 6 hostages.”
Cheney, who was one of many lawmakers main the probe into investigating the Capitol assault, just lately called Stefanik a “whole crackpot.” The previous Wyoming congresswoman has been a staunch critic of former President Trump and allies who promoted false claims concerning the 2020 election that President Biden received.
She has additionally called Stefanik’s labeling of Jan. 6 rioters a “shame” and “outrageous.”
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