Joe Biden shows off his last assets before Donald Trump returns to the White House. The American president will decorate, this Thursday, January 2, the former Republican elected official Liz Cheney, fierce critic of the billionaire, who has already warned that she could have “big problems” with the justice system once he has taken his functions.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney will be awarded, along with 19 other personalities, the “Presidential Medal of Citizenship”, awarded in recognition of “exemplary actions in the service of the country”, announced the White House . The outgoing Democratic president believes that the recipients “have in common the righteousness and the desire to serve others”.
Regarding Liz Cheney, the White House emphasizes that she “gave voice and transcended partisan divisions to defend the ideals of our nation: freedom. Dignity. And righteousness. Her integrity and courage remind us what is possible when we work together.”
The anti-Trump voice of the Republicans
Liz Cheney has for several years become the voice of anti-Trump within the Republican camp, but lost her seat in Congress in 2022 to a Trumpist. The former elected representative from Wyoming (north-west), and member of the parliamentary commission which investigated the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, campaigned alongside Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate defeated by Donald Trump in November.
When the Republicans regained the majority in the lower house of Congress in 2022, a handful of Trumpist elected officials set up a subcommittee responsible for investigating “the failures and politicization of the commission on January 6” . A way of returning the favor to the Democrats with regard to this commission – of which Liz Cheney was vice-president – which damned Donald Trump for his role in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
A report published Tuesday, December 17 by this subcommittee accuses the former Republican elected official of witness tampering, for having, according to them, been in collusion with a former official of the Trump administration who testified against the Republican before the committee. 6-January. Liz Cheney subsequently defended her work, calling the report by Trumpist elected officials a “sneaky and cowardly attack on the truth.” “January 6 showed the true face of Donald Trump, that of a cruel and vindictive man,” she wrote in a statement on the Bluesky social network.
Donald Trump, who will be sworn in on January 20, has threatened prosecution against those he perceives as his enemies, whether politicians or journalists. “Liz Cheney could be in big trouble based on evidence obtained by the subcommittee which states that ‘numerous federal laws were violated by Liz Cheney’ and that ‘these violations should be investigated by the FBI ‘”, the future American president recently wrote on his Truth Social platform. Several American media recently reported that Joe Biden was considering using his presidential prerogatives to pardon several elected officials and senior American officials threatened with prosecution. Preventive pardons before the end of the mandate of the Democratic president from which Liz Cheney, according to Politico. On departure, Joe Biden, humiliated by the victory of his great rival, unpopular and weakened by age, multiplies the measures intended either to consolidate his record or to establish the strongest possible contrast with Donald Trump.