Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney is being accused of violating a legal ethics rule by being in contact with a former Trump administration official before she testified before the House Jan. 6 committee.
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, released text messages Tuesday that had been exchanged in 2022 between Cheney, then vice chairwoman of the Jan. 6 select committee, and Cassidy Hutchinson, who had served as assistant to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration.
Among other things, Hutchinson alleged during her testimony that then-President Donald Trump lunged toward the steering wheel of the presidential limousine after his speech on the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, saying he wanted to go to the Capitol.