In her memoir,\u2062 former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., \u200dfalsely portrayed former President Donald Trump as\u200b the mastermind behind the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. She claimed\u2063 that Trump resisted calls to deploy the National Guard. However, The \u2063Federalist exclusively reported<\/a> on Friday that evidence suppressed by Cheney’s committee actually showed that Trump pushed for more troops.<\/p>\n

In her December book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning<\/em><\/a>, Cheney revealed how the select committee discovered that the White House was warned about the potential for violence leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. The committee learned of these warnings through records obtained by the Secret Service.<\/p>\n

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Cheney wrote in her book that it was clear the Secret Service had briefed those\u2063 in the White House about the threat. \u200cShe stated\u200c that the information was being conveyed up the chain, including to Mark Meadows and\u2063 President Trump.<\/p>\n
Cheney portrayed \u2062Trump as negligent\u200b regarding the need for\u200c security in Washington on the\u200b day \u200dof the electoral count. She emphasized the weight of the intelligence received and found it hard\u2063 to believe that anyone\u2063 in the White House could have\u2063 failed\u200d to recognize the obvious danger.<\/p>\n
However, the Trump administration did recognize the risk and actively\u200b sought to\u2063 deploy 10,000 National Guard troops to reinforce D.C. police. This information was covered up by Cheney.<\/p>\n
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Last week, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway revealed<\/a> that Cheney’s\u200c committee concealed testimony from former White House \u200cDeputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato. Ornato stated \u2062in his first interview with House \u2063investigators on Jan. 28, 2022, that he overheard \u2064Meadows urging D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser\u200b to mobilize as many National Guard troops as needed.<\/p>\n
Ornato also testified that President Trump suggested the need for 10,000 troops\u200c to\u2062 maintain peace during the public rallies and \u200dprotests scheduled for January 6, 2021. He \u200ddescribed the White House’s frustration with the slow deployment of assistance by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on that\u200c day.<\/p>\n
The committee \u2064kept Ornato’s\u200b testimony hidden from the public and launched a press campaign<\/a> to discredit him\u200d as a \u200bwitness. However, Cheney cited Ornato’s testimony in her book as evidence of the White House’s dismissiveness towards the security situation in Washington on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n
Cheney invited skeptics to read the Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th \u2063Attack on the United\u200c States Capitol and specifically \u2064mentioned the recorded examination of Tony \u2063Ornato by Chief Investigative Counsel Tim Heaphy\u200d on November 29, 2022. She emphasized that they knew.<\/p>\n
But Cheney conveniently \u200bleft out\u200c Ornato’s Jan. 28 interview where he stated that Trump actually sought 10,000 National Guard troops to secure the Capitol. Rep. Barry Loudermilk,\u200b R-Ga., who is investigating the Jan. 6 committee, criticized \u200cthe committee for\u2063 withholding Ornato’s testimony and stated that it proves\u2062 Trump did offer 10,000 troops, which was turned down.<\/p>\n
Ornato revealed that Mayor Bowser rejected the request for additional Guard troops in Washington, D.C. Meadows wanted to ensure that she had enough guardsmen. The request for assistance ultimately\u2064 resulted in a few hundred unarmed troops being deployed \u200dto offer rudimentary assistance to District police.<\/p>\n
Bowser’s letter to \u2063the commanding general\u2064 of the local National Guard stated that no \u2063DCNG personnel would be armed during \u200cthe mission and they would not engage in domestic surveillance, searches,\u2062 or seizures of US persons. It is worth noting that Bowser\u2063 had previously opposed additional federal troops<\/a> in D.C. during the 2020 \u2063riots.<\/p>\n
When the White House \u200dfaced delays in deploying \u2064more Guard troops, Chief Meadows\u2063 contacted the Department of Defense. Ornato recalled Meadows informing him that National Guard troops would be at Joint\u2063 Base Andrews in case they were needed.<\/p>\n
The select \u200bcommittee, led by Cheney, refused to\u200b investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to additional Guard troops at the Capitol. Pelosi was reportedly concerned\u2063 about the “optics” of reinforcements after\u200d Democrats criticized the use\u2063 of federal troops in Washington during the 2020 riots.<\/p>\n
Cheney herself discouraged the Pentagon from taking action \u200dby \u200borganizing an \u2063op-ed by former defense\u2064 secretaries days before the riot\u200d to condemn troop mobilization. \u200dOrnato described Meadows’ frustration with the Defense Department on the day of the riot, emphasizing the urgency of the situation.<\/p>\n
However, Cheney never allowed Ornato’s \u200btestimony to be made public. Instead, her committee’s final\u2062 report stated that Trump never ordered the deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6 or any other day, and he did not instruct any federal law enforcement agency<\/a> to assist.<\/p>\n
Hemingway reported that Ornato’s description of events aligned with testimony from Kash \u2062Patel, the former chief of staff to the acting secretary\u200b of defense, \u200din a Colorado Supreme Court hearing. The court dismissed Patel’s\u200c testimony due to the suppression of Ornato’s corroborating information by the January 6\u200b committee.<\/p>\n
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What are the implications of Liz Cheney’s selective citation of Anthony Ornato’s testimony and her\u200d omission of Trump’s request for 10,000\u2064 National Guard troops<\/h2>\n
Title: Liz Cheney’s Misrepresentation of Trump’s Involvement in the January 6 Capitol Riot<\/p>\n
Introduction:<\/p>\n
In her memoir, former Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming has\u200d made false\u200b claims<\/a> regarding\u200b former President Donald Trump’s\u2062 role in the \u2063January\u200d 6, 2021, Capitol \u2063riot. Cheney alleged that \u200cTrump \u2064resisted calls to deploy the\u200b National Guard, \u200dbut evidence\u2062 suppressed by her committee suggests otherwise. This article aims to explore the discrepancies in Cheney’s portrayal of events and shed light on the suppressed information that contradicts her narrative.<\/p>\n
Cheney’s Discovery of White House Warnings:<\/p>\n
In her book, “Oath and Honor: A\u200b Memoir\u2064 and a Warning,” Cheney highlights how the select committee discovered that the White House was warned about the potential \u200dfor violence leading up to January \u200d6, 2021.\u2062 These warnings were conveyed through records obtained by the Secret Service. Cheney\u200d writes that \u2062it was evident the Secret Service had briefed\u2062 individuals in the White House, including Mark \u200bMeadows and President Trump, about the threat.<\/p>\n
Negligence\u2062 and Suppression\u200c of Information:<\/p>\n
Cheney depicts \u200cTrump as negligent regarding the need for security in Washington on the day of \u200cthe electoral \u200ccount. She \u2063emphasizes the weight of the intelligence received and finds \u2063it hard \u200dto believe that anyone\u200c in the White House could have\u2062 failed to recognize the obvious danger. However, evidence shows that the\u2062 Trump administration \u2063recognized the risk and actively sought\u2062 to deploy 10,000 National Guard troops to\u2064 reinforce\u2063 D.C. police. This \u200dcrucial\u2064 information was deliberately \u2063covered\u2062 up\u200c by Cheney.<\/p>\n
Suppression\u200d of\u2064 Testimony:<\/p>\n
Last week, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway revealed \u200cthat Cheney’s committee concealed testimony from\u200d former White House \u2064Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato. Ornato \u2063stated in\u200d his\u200d first interview with House investigators\u200c on January 28, 2022, \u200cthat he overheard Meadows urging \u200cD.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to\u200d mobilize as many National Guard troops as needed. \u2062Ornato also testified \u200cthat President Trump \u200dsuggested the need\u200d for 10,000 troops to maintain peace during \u200cthe public rallies and\u2063 protests scheduled for \u2064January \u200c6,\u200c 2021.\u2062 He further described \u2064the White House’s frustration with the slow deployment of assistance by Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on that day.<\/p>\n
Selective Citation:<\/p>\n
Cheney\u2062 cited Ornato’s testimony in her book \u2064as \u200bevidence of the White House’s dismissiveness towards the security situation\u2063 in Washington on January 6. However, she conveniently omitted\u200c Ornato’s January 28 interview where he stated that Trump actually sought 10,000 National Guard troops to \u200dsecure the Capitol. This omission raises questions<\/a> about Cheney’s intentions and her portrayal of events.<\/p>\n
Withheld Testimony and Discrediting Witnesses:<\/p>\n
The select committee, chaired by \u2063Cheney, kept Ornato’s testimony \u2063hidden from the public and \u200blaunched a press\u200b campaign\u200d to discredit him \u2064as a witness. This\u2063 deliberate suppression of \u2063crucial information is alarming\u2063 and undermines \u2062the committee’s credibility. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is investigating the January 6 committee, criticized the committee\u2064 for withholding\u200d Ornato’s testimony \u2062and stated that it substantiates Trump’s offer of \u206210,000\u2062 troops, which was turned down.<\/p>\n
Conclusion:<\/p>\n
The discrepancy\u200c between Liz Cheney’s memoir \u2063and the suppressed evidence brings into\u200d question her \u200cmotives and the credibility of her committee’s investigation. It is imperative to consider all available information when assessing the \u2063events of\u2062 January 6, 2021, and to acknowledge that Trump sought \u2063to deploy additional National Guard troops, contrary to Cheney’s narrative. The\u200b selective portrayal of events does a disservice to \u2062the truth and\u2062 hinders the pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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