{"id":1543268,"date":"2022-07-07T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543268"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:35:31","slug":"exclusive-key-figure-in-jan-6-events-backs-claims-that-cheney-january-6-committee-are-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-key-figure-in-jan-6-events-backs-claims-that-cheney-january-6-committee-are-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Key Figure in Jan. 6 Events Backs Claims That Cheney, January 6 Committee Are Lying"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fexclusive-key-figure-in-jan-6-events-backs-claims-that-cheney-january-6-committee-are-lying%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=1543268&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--><p>A key lawyer for President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-trump\">Trump<\/a> who helped draft memos that sought to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election told The Epoch Times that he backs the charges by a recent committee witness that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-january-6\">January 6<\/a> committee is lying to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Witness and\u00a0former Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Ken Klukowski, who testified before the committee last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/27\/exclusive-former-white-house-staffer-confirms-jan-6-committee-lied-about-doj-attorney\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a statement provided to The Federalist over the July 4 weekend, \u201cThe January 6 Committee falsely accused me on Thursday of being a go-between in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. That accusation is false both in its broad outlines and its details.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, former Trump lawyer John Eastman said he supports Klukowski\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Trump critic and\u00a0committee member Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wy.)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/06\/23\/jan-6-committee-connects-two-strands-trumps-effort-retain-power\/\">said<\/a> that the testimony only shows that\u00a0Klukowski was appointed to his DOJ position under the influence of Eastman\u2014a claim that both deny.<\/p>\n<p> Cheney\u2019s Claims <\/p>\n<p>Cheney claimed that together, they proposed to \u201coverturn the election\u201d\u2014failing to mention this was only possible if they could prove any significant allegations of elections fraud\u2014with the cooperation of Jeff Clark, a former assistant attorney general at the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s true that Clark drafted a letter that his bosses felt was inappropriate for the DOJ to present to the states over the election, according to the testimony presented in The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/27\/exclusive-former-white-house-staffer-confirms-jan-6-committee-lied-about-doj-attorney\/\">Federalist<\/a>, the connection between Clark, Eastman, and Klukowski to that letter is tenuous, according to Klukowski\u2019s statement in the Federalist and Eastman\u2019s account of his relationship with Klukowski.<\/p>\n<p>According to Eastman, while Klukowski had worked with him on a memo that asked the state of Pennsylvania to grant the Trump campaign time to investigate claims of election fraud, he was also in quarantine for three weeks after catching COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key lawyer for President Donald Trump who helped draft memos that sought to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election told The Epoch Times that he backs the charges by a recent committee witness that the January 6 committee is lying to the American people. 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