What Shook Liz Cheney the Most About January 6

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) explained to the Casper Star Tribune her personal experience during the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Said Cheney: “It made me very angry, the idea that this could have happened and that there were people who were trying to use violence to stop us from counting electoral votes.”

But there was one moment that struck her more than most: “One of the most troubling moments of that period of the day was when one of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle was sitting across from me and he looked at his phone and he said, ‘Liz, there’s a Confederate flag flying in the rotunda.’ And that moment was really — you realize that never happened during the Civil War.”