{"id":495360,"date":"2021-05-11T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=495360"},"modified":"2021-05-11T07:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T11:36:13","slug":"pelosi-producing-oppo-research-for-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-to-attack-republican-leaders-gop-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-producing-oppo-research-for-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-to-attack-republican-leaders-gop-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Producing Oppo Research For Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger To Attack Republican Leaders: GOP Source"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpelosi-producing-oppo-research-for-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-to-attack-republican-leaders-gop-source%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=495360&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\/2021\/05\/NP-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A top source close to Republican leadership in the nation\u2019s capital says that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is producing opposition research for Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to attack House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over the party\u2019s decision to vote this week on Cheney\u2019s position as Conference Chair, the No. 3 spot in House Republican leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pelosi-mccarthy-republicans-ca32a4a2-ac6b-4289-9e14-2c9186b0214b.html\">reported<\/a> late on Monday evening that Pelosi was \u201cfeeding oppo research against\u201d McCarthy \u201cso others can use the same harsh rhetoric to frame the Republicans as the party of dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s shameful that Pelosi has nothing better to do with her time than produce oppo for Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger,\u201d a top source close to GOP leadership told The Daily Wire. \u201cAnd it\u2019s telling that Cheney and Kinzinger are stupid enough to let themselves be used like that. Goodbye and good riddance to both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that the attacks would ramp up this week as Republicans are set to oust Cheney on Wednesday morning from her leadership position after she refused to quit attacking former President Donald Trump instead of focusing on galvanizing support to unite in opposition to Democrat President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that House Democrats \u201cmust react to Republican efforts to remove\u201d Cheney and that, according to a Democrat House aide, Pelosi is directly responsible for 95% of the messaging.<\/p>\n<p>The report gave the following examples of Pelosi\u2019s office ramping up its \u201copposition research\u201d attacking McCarthy and other Republican leaders over the drama surrounding Cheney:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The subject line from one such email, dated May 4, read: \u201cFrom the GOP Leadership: Help Wanted\u00a0<em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0Non-Threatening Female.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The next day her office sent another email, titled: \u201cMcCarthy\u2019s Rules: Punishing Truth, Rewarding Lies, Embracing Extremism &#038; Bigotry.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pelosi has even taken to praising Cheney \u2014 one of the most conservative members of Congress \u2014 in an effort to undercut Republican leadership.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI do commend Liz Cheney for her courage, for her patriotism,\u201d\u00a0Pelosi said\u00a0last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheney recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post where she directly called out McCarthy, which comes after McCarthy backed her over an effort by some to out her from the position earlier this year, with at least one McCarthy ally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shes-a-liability-republicans-intend-to-oust-liz-cheney-from-house-leadership-by-months-end-report-says\">suggesting<\/a> that he saved her last time. Cheney\u2019s op-ed came at roughly the same time\u00a0that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/liz-cheney-orchestrated-secret-media-campaign-to-counter-trump-rhetoric-while-he-was-in-office-report\">revealed<\/a> that Cheney had worked to orchestrate a secret campaign countering rhetoric from then-President Donald Trump. Kinzinger has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1391787055534034944\">said<\/a> that McCarthy is the one who \u201cshould have their leadership challenged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney also helped call attention to a now-disputed report from The New York Times last summer that claimed that Russian had placed bounties on U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/russian-bounty-story-falls-apart-192123174.html\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>The credibility of last summer\u2019s bombshell report alleging the Russian government was paying bounties to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan took another hit this week when a senior Biden administration official told reporters they only have \u201clow-to-moderate confidence\u201d in the intelligence behind the story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The intelligence was based on notoriously unreliable \u201cdetainee reporting,\u201d the official said on the call, meaning that it came from militants looking to get out of jail.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats say they like Liz Cheney for being a truth-teller,\u201d International security professor Max Abrahms <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxAbrahms\/status\/1390454392751640577\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter. \u201cBut she has been a major source of misinformation on issues such as the discredited Russian bounty story. No, Cheney has been embraced by the mainstream simply for being anti-Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.550314465409\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If reporting about Russian bounties on US forces is true, the White House must explain: <br \/>1. Why weren\u2019t the president or vice president briefed? Was the info in the PDB?<br \/>2. Who did know and when?<br \/>3. What has been done in response to protect our forces &#038; hold Putin accountable?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1277200077724037122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some have tried to claim that Republicans looking to oust Cheney from her leadership were engaging in \u201ccancel culture,\u201d something largely opposed on the political Right, and were thus being hypocrites by trying to force Cheney out of her leadership position.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cheney recently tried to oust a fellow Republican House member from his seat in Congress, not just a leadership position, and many were silent about the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Liz Cheney spent $ trying to throw Thomas Massie out of Congress \u2014 not remove him from leadership \u2014 I don\u2019t recall anyone in the media condemning her for ideological litmus tests, purity, etc,\u201d writer Zaid Jilani tweeted. \u201cCheney was in an unusual position of being in leadership while trying to unseat a member of her party, which is much more extreme than shuffling leadership which happens all the time. I don\u2019t remember anyone busting out their violin for Massie.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.758064516129\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cheney was in an unusual position of being in leadership while trying to unseat a member of her party, which is much more extreme than shuffling leadership which happens all the time. I don&#8217;t remember anyone busting out their violin for Massie. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mFn4J1os36\">https:\/\/t.co\/mFn4J1os36<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZaidJilani\/status\/1391836704076599298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McCarthy wrote a letter to Republican House members on Monday, saying that the party \u201cneed[ed]\u201d a new leader to fill Cheney\u2019s spot because she was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/it-begins-mccarthy-writes-letter-to-house-republicans-about-liz-cheneys-future-in-leadership\">focused<\/a> on \u201crelitigating the past\u201d instead of focusing on helping the party take back the House.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top source close to Republican leadership in the nation\u2019s capital says that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is producing opposition research for Reps. 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