NewsUSACheney stresses that they will prevent Trump from setting up a "circus" if he goes to testify before the House committee

Cheney stresses that they will prevent Trump from setting up a “circus” if he goes to testify before the House committee

Republicans Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, and Democrat Elaine Luria, during one of the hearings of the House of Representatives committee investigating the assault on Capitol Hill. – ROD LAMKEY / ZUMA PRESS / CONTACTOPHOTO

The vice president of the parliamentary commission that investigates what happened during the assault on Capitol Hill, Republican representative Liz Cheney, has stressed that they will not allow former United States President Donald Trump to organize a “circus” if he finally goes to testify under oath as they pretend

“He is not going to turn this into a circus,” Cheney settled in an interview for NBC on Sunday, in which he stressed that episodes like that first electoral debate against Joe Biden, in which Trump turned that into a “Food war”.

“This is too serious a set of problems,” emphasized Cheney, one of the two Republican representatives who are part of this parliamentary commission who hopes to be able to sit Trump in front of them to testify under oath about his degree of involvement in those disturbances. with which a mob of supporters of the former president tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power.

Last week, the committee formally subpoenaed Trump’s legal team to turn over a series of documents by November 4 and testify “one or more days” from November 14.

In case the tycoon does not comply, Cheney has assured that they have “many alternatives”, although he has not specified which ones. In any case, he has emphasized that Trump’s possible appearance, which could last for “several days” will be treated with “the level of rigor, discipline and seriousness that he deserves.”

Cheney is one of the few relevant figures within the Republican Party who has dared to question Trump, thus causing his fall from grace, as shown by the fact that he lost the first in Wyoming in August by more than 35 points and with it his seat. in the House of Representatives from January 2023.

In May of last year after supporting a second ‘impeachment’ against Trump, the party demoted her by stripping her of her position as president of the Republican Conference in the House of Representatives, the third highest ranking position within a formation that has given her the definitely back.

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