During a Sunday morning TV appearance on CNN’s State of the Union show, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) told host Jake Tapper that the committee continues to negotiate with the well-connected conspiracy theorist’s lawyer in an attempt to get her to testify about her role in the insurrection.
Ginni Thomas, the wife of the stoutly conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who played a pivotal role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election, now faces the threat of a subpoena to force her to testify before the Jan. 6 Committee.
The committee sent her an interview request in a June 16 letter but that was outright rejected by her lawyer in a formal reply on June 28 signed by her lawyer, Mark R. Paoletta. In the response letter, Paoletta told the committee “there is no story to uncover here” and questioned the committee’s mission by waving around his credentials as the former top investigative lawyer with the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he worked on nearly 200 investigative hearings over a decade.
The committee has already interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses who worked in the Trump administration, his election overturning campaign, and the many groups with fascist ties who plotted to keep Trump in power.
Cheney on CNN acknowledged that her role as co-chair of the Jan. 6 Committee—and her willingness to break from fellow Republicans who remain loyal Trumpists—could cost her reelection in Wyoming this year. But she called the historic congressional investigation “the single most important thing I’ve done professionally.”
“I believe that our nation stands on the edge of an abyss. We have to think very seriously about the dangers we face… and we’ve got to elect serious candidates,” she said.
She also said she has yet to decide whether she will run for president next year to stop Trump from making a comeback.
“At this point, I’ve not decided about 2024. And I’m very focused on the substance of what we have to do on the select committee,” she said.
