During an interview with ABC News on January 2, 2021, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney declared that Donald Trump should never be permitted to run for the presidency again. She cited Trump’s alleged failure to to stop the January 6th storming of the Capitol.
“The Briefing Room at the White House is just a mere few steps from the Oval Office,” declared Cheney. “The president could have at any moment walked those very few steps into the Briefing Room, gone on live television, and told his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol to stop, and he failed to do so.”
Cheney then proceeded to accuse Trump of inciting the raid, despite the multiple examples of footage showing the rioters being invited to enter the building.
The Congresswoman asserted that Trump was “clearly unfit for future office” and “can never be anywhere near the Oval Office ever again.”