{"id":1515521,"date":"2022-06-14T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515521"},"modified":"2022-06-14T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T17:35:31","slug":"as-flooding-ravages-wyoming-and-shuts-down-yellowstone-liz-cheney-is-in-d-c-trying-to-indict-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-flooding-ravages-wyoming-and-shuts-down-yellowstone-liz-cheney-is-in-d-c-trying-to-indict-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"As Flooding Ravages Wyoming And Shuts Down Yellowstone, Liz Cheney Is In D.C. Trying To Indict Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-flooding-ravages-wyoming-and-shuts-down-yellowstone-liz-cheney-is-in-d-c-trying-to-indict-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515521&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Untitled-design-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After heavy rains triggered flooding and rockslides in Yellowstone National Park this week, federal officials shut down Wyoming\u2019s largest tourist destination while the state\u2019s at-large lawmaker remains fixated on an effort to indict former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the National Park Service announced a full evacuation of the park, which is larger than the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined, and closed its five entrances to visitors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to record flooding events in the park and more precipitation in the forecast, we have made the decision to close Yellowstone to all inbound visitation,\u201d said Yellowstone superintendent Cam Sholly in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yell\/learn\/news\/220613.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a> keeping the park closed at least through Wednesday. \u201cWe will not know timing of the park\u2019s reopening until flood waters subside and we\u2019re able to assess the damage throughout the park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time that Wyoming\u2019s largest attraction shut down, the state\u2019s sole congresswoman, Liz Cheney, was in Washington D.C. conducting the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/13\/second-j6-hearing-criminalizes-republicans-for-election-objections-after-democrats-made-them-for-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">second episode<\/a> of her beloved Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/10\/the-j6-inquisition-is-an-obvious-soviet-style-show-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soviet-style show trial<\/a> to prosecute Trump and his supporters. So far, a single <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLizCheney\/status\/1536750650406608897?s=20&#038;t=hW2mnl435frgNtcg3w2M1g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a> Tuesday afternoon is the extent of Cheney\u2019s public addressing of the flooding that\u2019s shut down her state\u2019s top recreational space which drew<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/aboutus\/visitation-numbers.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> 4.9 million visits<\/a> last year and added more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyomingnewsnow.tv\/2021\/06\/15\/tourism-yellowstone-creates-560-million-economic-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$444 million<\/a> to local communities in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding is \u201cprobably the worst thing that\u2019s happened disaster-wise since the fires of \u201988,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jhnewsandguide.com\/news\/environmental\/local\/historic-flooding-damages-yellowstone-infrastructure-strands-gateway-community\/article_244ada4e-5462-5a03-a9e2-c20b70a5ab2c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Jeff Olson, a resident of Cheney\u2019s adopted hometown, in an interview with Jackson Hole News &#038; Guide. \u201cTo have all five entrances closed because of one event during the summer season? It\u2019s crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1988, fires ravaged the park all summer burning down about 800,000 acres, or more than a third of the park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/yell\/learn\/nature\/1988-fires.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to the National Park Service. <\/p>\n<p>The last two <a href=\"https:\/\/cheney.house.gov\/press-releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press releases <\/a>from Cheney\u2019s office, however, are each transcripts of her remarks in Monday\u2019s Jan. 6 hearing. Despite the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R42346.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half<\/a> of her state is under the jurisdiction of the federal government, the Wyoming lawmaker is also no longer on the House Natural Resources Committee, having instead embraced her vendetta against Trump and his supporters as a hallmark of her time in the lower chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney has faced rising criticism about her <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/03\/when-was-the-last-time-liz-cheney-set-foot-in-her-own-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">absence<\/a> from the state as she uses her remaining time in Congress to spar with Trump. The Wyoming representative serves as vice chair of the Democrats\u2019 weaponized Jan. 6 Committee, where her appointment from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed a prohibition on members appointed by the House minority leader. In April, a Federalist analysis of campaign finance data in her race against Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/20\/liz-cheney-rakes-in-more-money-from-northern-virginia-than-from-her-home-state-wyoming\/\">revealed<\/a> Cheney is relying on Beltway donors to fund a fourth term. Only 2 percent of the incumbent congresswoman\u2019s total contributions, with $10 million to spend this cycle, came among Wyoming constituents.  <\/p>\n<p>On a rare visit to the state in February, Cheney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/09\/liz-cheney-snubs-voters-to-mingle-with-reporters-instead-calling-constituents-crazies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">snubbed<\/a> voters to mingle with reporters instead. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After heavy rains triggered flooding and rockslides in Yellowstone National Park this week, federal officials shut down Wyoming\u2019s largest tourist destination while the state\u2019s at-large lawmaker remains fixated on an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}