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Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has been engulfed in hypocrisy as damning texts show that she communicated with a Jan. 6 star witness behind her attorney’s back.

A congressional committee got a hold of the texts showing that Cheney was communicating with Cassidy Hutchinson via Signal. Hutchinson spoke directly to the former representative and via Alyssa Farrah Griffin, a political strategist. Cheney allegedly helped Hutchinson get new lawyers during her brief notoriety who would be more amenable to the House January 6th Select Committee’s point of view.

“Cheney (R-Wyo.) interacted with the witness, former Donald Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin — and later directly — in an effort to compel further testimony and have Hutchinson appear for a primetime televised hearing about the 45th president’s culpability for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot,” the New York Post reported.

“Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson’s juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were later found to be false, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book ‘Oath and Honor’ about the riot,” the media outlet noted.

The communications and actions of Cheney are being addressed as ethical violations. Ironically, Cheney demanded criminal referrals for “anybody who attempted to influence witness testimony” in front of the January 6th committee. She also previously accused former President Trump of trying to contact a J6 witness and referred the action to the DOJ. Once again, projection seems to be at play with Cheney appearing to have done what she falsely claimed Trump did.

House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) is incensed over the discovery of the texts and says that Cheney “apparently defied her ethical responsibilities” while she was arrogantly serving as vice chair on the Jan. 6 select committee which seemed far more like an inquisition panel than a truth-seeking body.

“Hutchinson began texting with Griffin in April 2022, two months before the made-for-TV hearings aired, claiming she had additional evidence that might be relevant to the select committee’s investigation. The two met at Griffin’s Georgetown home and reportedly discussed that Trump had ‘agreed’ with the Capitol mob’s chants of ‘Hang Mike Pence’ during the melee that temporarily halted the certification of the 2020 electoral count,” the New York Post wrote.

“In an April 28, 2022, message on the encrypted app Signal, Griffin acknowledged that it was unethical for Cheney to coordinate further testimony scheduled for May 17, 2022, without her then-lawyer Stefan Passantino present,” the outlet added.

“Her one concern was so long ad [sic] you have counsel, she can’t really ethically talk to you without him,” Griffin told Hutchinson at the time. Hutchinson would go on to testify for a third sitting the following month, providing “unverified” stories.

“Hutchinson sent Signal messages directly to Cheney requesting ‘a private conversation’ on June 6, 2022, three days before the first televised committee hearing. Around the same time, Hutchinson rejected Passantino as her counsel, and lawyers from Alston and Bird, Jody Hunt, and Bill Jordan, began representing the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pro bono,” the New York Post recounted.

“The change-up elicited a ‘dramatic change in testimony and eventual claims against President Trump using second- and third-hand accounts,’ Loudermilk’s panel added,” the media outlet said. “Hutchinson went on to testify three more times before the Jan. 6 committee, claiming spectacularly that the 45th president had lunged for the wheel of his Secret Service limousine, nicknamed ‘the Beast,’ to try to join his mob of supporters at the Capitol protesting the 2020 election count.”

In a less than wise move, Cheney wrote in her book that she had spoken to Hutchinson “directly” about getting different legal representation. She noted that Hutchinson at first was “inclined to represent herself going forward.”

“Ultimately, Cassidy decided to retain two new lawyers,” the former Republican claimed.

“That account clashed with Hutchinson’s memoir ‘Enough,’ in which she recalled Cheney gave her the names of several attorneys to choose from,” the New York Post pointed out.

“Another Signal message dated May 2, 2022, shows Griffin and Hutchinson agreeing with Passantino’s legal ‘approach’ to the earlier testimonies — before the ex-Trump aide threw him under the bus later the same year. She claimed the former White House ethics counsel was trying to protect Trump and his allies, instead of having her best interests in mind,” the media outlet continued.

“I’m your lawyer. I know what’s best for you. The less you remember, the better,” Hutchinson claimed Passantino advised.

Loudermilk’s committee charges that Cheney used Passantino as a “scapegoat,” attempting to get him disbarred to provide cover for the differences in Hutchinson’s earlier and subsequent testimonies.

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