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Previously dismissed as a “nutball conspiracy theorist,” Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s (R) concerns over federal involvement with Jan. 6 had him wondering what one sham committee member knew, and when.

(Video Credit: Fox News)

Long left unsaid by the federal government, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s office released a report last week confirming that the FBI had 26 confidential informants within the crowd on Jan. 6, 2021.

After former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney (R) previously leveled accusations against the senator for his line of questioning, Lee joined Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo where he once again challenged what details she had been privy to that had been kept hidden from the public.

Acknowledging that he couldn’t speak to what Cheney may or may not have known, the senator told Bartiromo, “But what I do know is this: It’s very strange that she would call people who were raising these questions nut jobs, nut cases, whatever it is that she wanted to say, when she herself, as a member of this Jan. 6 investigative committee, had access to a lot of information.”

“This begs the question: Did she know, in fact, that what Mr. Horowitz put out recently, in the inspector general report, did she know this already? If so, why was she up there, calling into question the sanity of anyone even raising the question?” he went on.

The host had reminded that in Nov. 2023, Cheney had reacted to Lee calling her out over “other stuff–what you deliberately hid from us…” when she’d shared familiar footage of clashes from outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Positing the question, “P.S. How many of these guys are feds? (As if you’d ever tell us),” earned the lawmaker the response, “Hey @BasedMikeLee — heads up. A nutball conspiracy theorist appears to be posting from your account.”

On Saturday, the senator returned to that post with the caption, “Liz Cheney called me a ‘nutball conspiracy theorist’ for asking questions about FBI’s involvement on January 6th…The DOJ Inspector General’s report confirmed that I had good reasons to ask these questions, which Christopher Wray repeatedly dodged.”

Rumblings of “preemptive pardons” from President Joe Biden, who set a new precedent in executive clemency with the blanket pardon for his own son, Hunter Biden, had Lee wondering who might be under consideration before he commented on destroyed documents related to the Jan. 6 investigation.

“As far as who might have destroyed what, I don’t know,” he told Bartiromo. “But this does make me wonder what role [Cheney] might have had in it, as well as other members of the committee.”

Meanwhile, Cheney had been silent on social media since the morning after Election Day when she’d called on “Citizens across this country, our courts, members of the press and those serving in our federal, state and local governments” to be the “guardrails of democracy” under a second administration with President-elect Donald Trump.

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