https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-enough-evidence-refer-trump-criminal-charges-cheney-says-rcna23778

By Christina Zhao

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has enough evidence to refer President Donald Trump for criminal charges, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Sunday.

“It’s absolutely clear that what President Trump was doing — what a number of people around him were doing — that they knew it was unlawful. They did it anyway,” Cheney, the vice chair and one of two Republicans on the committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union" when host Jake Tapper asked her whether the panel had enough evidence to make a criminal referral for Trump. Cheney said the panel has not made a decision about moving forward with the referral.

The New York Times reported that the committee has concluded that it has enough evidence to make a criminal referral but that its leaders were divided over whether to do so.

"I think what we have seen is a massive and well-organized and well-planned effort that used multiple tools to try to overturn an election," Cheney said. The committee has "got a tremendous amount of testimony and documents that I think very, very clearly demonstrate the extent of the planning and the organization and the objective."

She added: "The objective was absolutely to try to stop the kind of electoral votes, to try to interfere with that official proceeding. And it’s absolutely clear that they knew what they were doing was wrong."

She referred to a ruling in a civil suit involving the committee last month, in which a federal judge found that based on evidence, Trump most likely "attempted to obstruct the joint session of Congress" on the day of the attack, which would be a crime.

“The illegality of the plan was obvious,” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote of Trump and lawyer John Eastman’s plan to have then-Vice President Mike Pence determine the results of the 2020 election. “Every American — and certainly the president of the United States — knows that in a democracy, leaders are elected, not installed. With a plan this ‘BOLD,’ President Trump knowingly tried to subvert this fundamental principle."

The Jan. 6 panel made similar allegations in a court filing in the case last month, saying it had a "good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States."

The Jan. 6 panel made similar allegations in a court filing in the case last month, saying it had a "good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States."

So Cheney says that Trump was extorting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by urging him to do the right thing and investigate Hunter Biden's influence peddling dealings with Joe Biden in Ukraine?

Cheney and you still want to victimize and persecute Trump's whistle-blowing that was right all along? And if Trump's request would have happened it would have changed this sad course of history under the Biden's which we are going through now into one of continued peace and prosperity.

Need I remind you that this pathetic impeachment of Trump was overturned and why shouldn't the whistle-blower of the phone call who was wrong be prosecuted?

"From 2017 to 2021, Cheney voted in line with Trump's position 92.9% of the time, supporting him more consistently in House votes than even his former chief of staff Mark Meadows.[76] In 2019, according to the New York Times, Cheney publicly feuded with Rand Paul over who was "Trumpier". According to The Atlantic, she was a "loyal Trumpist" and helped build "the party of Trump".

Whether she loses her seat or not in November, she will be a part of history as one of the few conservative leaders in Congress who had a spine, and wasn't afraid to oppose Trump and his unethical attempts to overthrow a democratic election. She is a leader in every sense of the word--who saw wrong and risked her career to do the right thing.

Excuse me Liz Cheney, when she said, "The objective was absolutely to try to stop the count of electoral votes,...". That was a lie and she knows it. It was to legally stop the counting of still legally contested votes.

In fact, the official count of Electoral votes had already been halted before any incursion into the Capitol. I watched the proceedings of the Electoral Vote count in the joint session of Congress on my TV. And when AZ was called, House Rep. Paul Goscar objected to the count and his objection was in writing and signed by a Senator, Ted Cruz.

VP Mike Pence immediately stopped the count and was supposed to call for a debate on the objection before the count could resume. At that point the session was halted.

Don't these liars know we have memories and video evidence?

The count would never have resumed if AZ's votes were ruled in debate that they would have to be sent back.

So Cheney says that Trump was extorting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by urging him to do the right thing and investigate Hunter Biden's influence peddling dealings with Joe Biden in Ukraine?

Cheney and you still want to victimize and persecute Trump's whistle-blowing that was right all along? And if Trump's request would have happened it would have changed this sad course of history under the Biden's which we are going through now into one of continued peace and prosperity.

Need I remind you that this pathetic impeachment of Trump was overturned and why shouldn't the whistle-blower of the phone call who was wrong be prosecuted?