Source:CNN– former U.S. Representative (Republican, Wyoming) and now author Liz Cheney, talking about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana)

Source:The New Democrat

“CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, who explains her suspicions about why Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wants to blur footage of the January 6 riot to protect rioters’ identities.”

From CNN

As my colleague Kire Schneider said on The New Democrat yesterday:

“Before you look at Liz Cheney’s opposition to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, you have to look at where she’s from politically, her family, especially her father Dick Cheney represents and what that wing of the party represents, first.

Even after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, you still had old school, center-right Republicans in Congress (House & Senate) who still believed in the rule of law and that America was more important than anything, including their own political careers. A lot of those folks are now out of Congress like former Representative Adam Kinzinger and former Representative Liz Cheney who lost her primary, but Senator Mitt Romney is still there.

Liz Cheney and her father represent the old school wing of the Republican Party, the party when it was the Grand Ole Party. They come from neoconservative wing of that party that emerged in the 1960s and 70s, but these are old school Republicans that believe in the rule of law, checks and balances, American democracy, and I could go on.

Liz Cheney and her father Dick also represent the Grand Ole Party…

And being the wannabe, right-wing authoritarian that Donald Trump wants to be, he obviously doesn’t believe in American democracy and accountability, at least as it applies to him. So it’s obvious why someone like a Liz Cheney would be in complete opposition to him.”

As Liz Cheney said about Speaker Mike Johnson and the House videotapes on Jan. 6, 2021: “The Department of Justice already has the tapes of that day.” What I would add is that people have already been arrested, prosecuted, and even testified in court, in exchange for lighter prison sentences, about their role in this attempted insurrection of 2021.

And as Liz Cheney would go onto say: “Speaker Johnson seems to be suggesting that there’s something in these tapes that could change what has already happened.”

So the Speaker is just lying about this since he knows that DOJ already has all of this evidence. But apparently Speaker Johnson thinks these MAGA members are too dumb to find their own hands, perhaps even spell their own names, and don’t already know this and that the Speaker can use this to try to keep their support.

But apparently Speaker Johnson is simply worried about keeping the support of the MAGA base of the Republican Party, and will claim that he’s with holding evidence that DOJ already has, in order to keep more of these people from having to go to prison, for their role in Jan 6. 2021. Even though several of the members are in prison today, or have just been released from prison, for their role in Jan 6. 2021.

Which tells me that the so-called establishment leaders of the Republican Party, like the freakin Speaker of the House of Representatives, (just to use as an example) doesn’t have a lot of respect for the intelligence of these right-wing, MAGA militants.