When President Joe Biden gave former GOP U.S. Representative Liz Cheney and Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi the Presidential Citizens Medal yesterday, he omitted a few salient items about their pasts, recent and distant.
The two hate-Trumpers received the award for their work on the select committee that “investigated” the mostly peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, the so-called J6 Committee.
Cheney tampered with a witness and must be investigated for suborning perjury from that witness, a report from the House Oversight Committee concluded. Thompson is an unrepentant insurrectionist who defended cop killers and terrorists who planned to wage war against the United States government.
Liz Cheney
Biden honored Cheney because, in serving as vice chairman of the J6 Committee, she “raised her voice — and reached across the aisle — to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible if we work together.”
Biden must have been mighty impressed with Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, because he wouldn’t let go of the clearly uncomfortable renegade Republican’s hand.
Fortunately for Cheney, he didn’t sniff her hair or plant one of his patented, ambush kisses.
Also fortunately for Cheney, the far-left media (and Biden, of course) ignored the conclusion of the Oversight panel’s probe into the J6 Committee’s “failures” and “politicization.”
The report shows that Cheney unethically communicated with key witness Cassidy Hutchinson, who then lied to the committee about the events of January 6. The committee also reported that Hutchinson altered her testimony to fit the committee’s bogus “insurrection” narrative.
“Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, numerous federal laws were likely broken by Liz Cheney, the former Vice Chair of the January 6 Select Committee, and these violations should be investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” the committee reported:
Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that … Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge. This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.
As well, the committee wants the FBI to probe Cheney “for violating 18 U.S.C. 1622, which prohibits any person from procuring another person to commit perjury,” the report says:
Based on the evidence obtained by this Subcommittee, Hutchinson committed perjury when she lied under oath to the Select Committee. Additionally, Hutchinson was interviewed by the FBI as part of its investigation into President Trump. This Subcommittee sought a copy of the FBI report 302, documenting this interview and Hutchinson’s statements, but the FBI has refused to produce this vital document. The FBI must immediately review the testimony given by Hutchinson in this interview to determine if she also lied in her FBI interview, and, if so, the role former Representative Cheney played in instigating Hutchinson to radically change her testimony.
Cheney’s contacting Hutchinson without her attorney’s knowledge is the subject of an America First Legal ethics complaint to the Washington, D.C., bar.
Bennie Thompson
The irony of Thompson’s running the “insurrection” committee is that Thompson was an insurrectionist himself. That was before he became a Democratic politician.
As The New American reported in October 2021, citing Just the News, Thompson was a key supporter of the terrorist Republic of New Africa outfit (RNA). He joined a news conference that fingered “law enforcement for instigating clashes with the group that led to the killings of a police officer and the wounding of an FBI agent,” the website reported.
The FBI had warned that RNA was “threatening ‘guerrilla warfare’ against the United States.”
When local authorities arrested RNA members who were involved with a fugitive who had stolen a car, Thompson accused police of trying “to stop the Republic from building its community.” That “community” included several southern states in which RNA expected to seize power.
“Thompson suggested the group be left alone if it was law abiding,” Just the News reported:
But by the time Thompson had uttered those words, the FBI had already determined the group had engaged in multiple violent crimes, and posed a national security threat with its stated plan to take over the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia to create a secessionist new country for African-Americans.
The sheriff who led the arrests told a far different story than Thompson’s, saying officers who went to execute an arrest warrant were met with resistance and that officers found a large cache of weapons and ammunition inside the group’s facility.
RNA members later opened fire on FBI agents and local police when they raided an RNA house. That gun battle ended with the murder of policeman Louis Skinner.
The New York Times reported that Thompson’s pals were ready for war. The group booby-trapped the front door and set “a Vietcong-type bunker and a tunnel with firing ports.”
None of that was too much for Thompson, even years later.
In 2013, Thompson supported and campaigned for former RNA vice president Chokwe Lumumba for mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. He also “officiated” at Lumumba’s installation, Just the News reported.
Other Recipients
Another estimable character who received the medal was Evan Wolfson, a homosexual who thinks he is married to a man. Wolfson helped “win the fundamental right to love, marry, and be themselves.” (That’s far-left code for sodomite “marriage.”)
A recipient who deserved the award was the late Joe Galloway, the intrepid civilian journalist. He received a Bronze Star for heroism for his actions during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam in 1965. With the commander at that battle, then-Lieutenant Colonel Harold Moore, Galloway wrote We Were Soldiers Once … and Young.