Print this article Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) participates in a news conference with House Republican leadership at the U.S. Capitol, March 9, 2021.
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Representative Liz Cheney has likely talked herself out of a Republican leadership position.
Cheney was already on the hot seat early this year for breaking with most of her party and voting to impeach President Donald Trump, saying of the January 6 Capitol riot, “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” Despite a move against her, Republicans ended up voting to retain her as conference chair in early February.
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April 16, 2021
U.S. intelligence agencies debunked on Thursday what was treated as blockbuster election-year reporting last summer of an anonymously sourced story in The New York Times claiming the Kremlin placed bounties on American troops in Afghanistan.
President Donald Trump, went the tale, deliberately downplayed the aggression to appease Russia and accelerate the timeline to withdraw U.S. forces. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, currently number three in House leadership, was a primary purveyor of the fake news.
“The United States intelligence community assesses with low to moderate confidence that Russian intelligence officers sought to encourage Taliban attacks on U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan in 2019 and perhaps earlier,” a senior administration official said, according to the readout of a call with reporters in the Daily Beast.
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