Liz Cheney Draws Big Crowd in Iowa, Argues Trump’s J6 Trial Must Happen Before The Election: ‘He Knows How Damaging That Will Be’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) spoke at Iowa’s Drake University on Wednesday night and railed against former President Donald Trump’s “delay tactics” in trying to push his federal January 6th and election interference trial to until after the 2024 presidential election.

“Every time Donald Trump says that the select committee, you know, somehow suppressed evidence, or that there are secret or hidden evidence, people should know that Donald Trump has all of that evidence,” Cheney said, referring to a recent conspiracy theory making the rounds on the hard right.

“He has all of the transcripts from the select committee. If you go back to October of last year, the special counsel explained that they had produced everything, including transcripts, that the select committee had to return to the White House and the Secret Service,” she continued, adding:

Donald Trump has had all of that since August of 2023, and he’s had it. He also has all of the testimony that the special counsel, has has, all the testimony from the grand jury. And so Donald Trump knows what the most senior members of his administration, his vice president, his attorney general, his acting attorney general, his acting secretary of defense. He knows what all of those people said to the grand jury, and he knows how damaging that will be to him.

And so, you know, when he now is pushing this idea that a president should have complete immunity, against any criminal prosecution for anything he does in office, and he’s pushed this appeal to the Supreme Court. I think it’s very important that the Supreme Court recognize that what he’s doing is a delaying tactic, and that that the American people, it cannot be the case that a president of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and seize power. And that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial, of holding him to account before the next election. That cannot be the case. And the Supreme Court.

After a long applause from the packed event space, she concluded, “You know, I, I trust that they will deal in a responsible and expeditious fashion with this appeal and but recognize that taking action that will result in further delay in preventing the American people from seeing that evidence in open court is itself suppression of the evidence that the American people have a right to see that evidence. And the court ought to recognize that.”

During Cheney’s near two-hour appearance, she also warned that the U.S. cannot “survive” another Trump presidency.

“We know (Trump) tried once not to leave office, and he will have no incentive to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power and to leave office should he be selected again,” Cheney argued, adding:

As frustrated as I know people get sometimes with policy disagreements you might have — and I certainly have policy disagreements with the Biden administration — I know the nation can survive bad policy. We can’t survive a president who is willing to torch the Constitution.

Cheney, once the chair of the House Republican Conference, spoke as part of Drake’s Bucksbaum Lecture series and the event was moderated by Lee Ann Colacioppo – the executive editor of the Denver Post.

Watch the clip above and the full event here.

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