Liz Cheney's book will be out soon. CNN has a peek. Here's some Jan 6th-related bits.
The book, “Oath and Honor,” which was obtained exclusively by CNN ahead of its Dec. 5 release, is an unflinching account of what Cheney calls the GOP’s “cowardice,” and how so many were willing to support former President Donald Trump, who she calls “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”
The book serves both as a roadmap laying out how Cheney realized in the days and weeks following the election the dangers of what Trump and his allies were trying to do to overturn the 2020 election
Cheney discloses for the first time that on Jan. 4, she was accidentally included on a White House surrogate call. She was alarmed as she listened in as Trump’s allies detailed specific plans to try to overturn the election by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct or delay the counting of electoral votes.
On Jan. 6, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney describes a scene in the GOP cloakroom, where members were encouraged to sign their names on electoral vote objection sheets, lined up on a table, one for each of the states Republicans were contesting. Cheney writes most members knew “it was a farce” and “another public display of fealty to Donald Trump.”
“Among them was Republican Congressman Mark Green of Tennessee,” Cheney writes. “As he moved down the line, signing his name to the pieces of paper, Green said sheepishly to no one in particular, ‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus.’”
In the aftermath of Jan. 6, Cheney writes there were “a few days of clarity where most of the House Republican Conference was ready to either impeach or censure Donald Trump.”
It wouldn’t last, she notes ruefully.
The book also includes new revelations about Cheney’s time as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee.
Surrounded by Democrats at the panel’s first meeting, Cheney writes, “I couldn’t shake the feeling of being a visitor from another planet.”
