'I think it is 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,' -- Liz Cheney, GOP member of the Jan. 6 committee
Cheney, one of two Republicans on the committee investigating the Capitol riot, made the assertion on Sunday, even as she conceded that the panel's members have not agreed whether to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice."I think it is 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 told Jake Tapper during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union.
— CNN April 10, 2022 Cheney, who hails from Wisconsin, made the comments after a judge said last month in a Jan. 6-related case that Trump"more likely than not" broke the law when he"corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021." On Friday, a member of the Proud Boys, Charles Donohoe, became the group's first national leader to plead guilty to conspiracy charges related to the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill.