President Donald Trump said on January 6, 2021, during a riot by supporters in the US Capitol, that Vice President Mike Pence “deserves” to be hanged for not casting ballots for Joe Biden and MP Liz Cheney (R – Wyo.) Said at the congressional hearing on Thursday night. At the first hearing of a House of Representatives select committee on the uprising, the nine-member committee investigating the Capitol uprising last year categorically blamed Trump for the violence that unfolded more than 17 months ago. The attack killed five people and injured 140 law enforcement officers. The commission noted that Trump was informed that he had lost the 2020 presidential election several times, but lied to the American people that his defeat was due to fraud. In her inaugural statement, Vice President Cheney, who voted for Trump’s ouster and was ousted as the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, promised the world that she would hear the testimony of “more than half a dozen former “White House officials in the Trump administration were all in the west wing of the White House on January 6.” “You will hear testimony that ‘the president really did not want to abolish anything’ by stopping the uprising or asking his supporters to leave,” Cheney said. “You will hear President Trump shouting and being ‘really angry’ with advisers who told him he needed to do more.” Jan. 6 commission accuses Trump of “slaughter” in US Capitol Cheney then said that the president showed his support for the mob in favor of Trump on January 6, 2021, who started shouting “Hang Mike Pence!”. Aware of the rioters’ shouts of “hang Mike Pence”, the president responded with this sentiment: “Maybe our supporters have the right idea.” Mike Pence “deserves it,” Cheney said. At a Jan. 6 hearing on June 9, MP Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Said President Donald Trump said Vice President Mike Pence “deserved” the hanging. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post) Cheney did not specify who or how many people testified that Trump supported his supporters’ calls to hang Pence. A Cheney spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Washington Post reported last month that House select committee had gathered evidence that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had remarked to others that Trump had shown his support for Pence’s hanging. The account of Meadows’s comment on Trump’s reaction to Pence was given to the committee by at least one witness, according to people familiar with the investigation – but these people did not describe the tone in which the comment was made. They spoke on condition of anonymity to be more honest about a sensitive issue. The Jan. 6 panel is said to have backed Trump’s hanging during the uprising. Representatives of Trump and Pence did not immediately respond to requests for comment. On Friday morning, Trump denied on Truth Social, his social network, that he supported the hanging of Pence. “I NEVER said, I did not even think to say, ‘Hang Mike Pence,’” he wrote. “This is either a fabricated story by someone who wants to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!” Cheney’s opening remarks helped set the tone for a presentation that served as a raw reminder of the mob’s unbridled violence that day. The footage and testimony played at Thursday’s hearing showed what Caroline Edwards, a U.S. Capitol police officer who was seriously injured in the uprising, described as a “massacre.” “The violence was not accidental,” said committee chair Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) At the start of the hearing. “This is Trump’s last, most desperate opportunity to stop the transfer of power. “And finally, Donald Trump – the president of the United States – incited a mob of internal enemies of the Constitution to come down to the Capitol and undermine American democracy.” After the dramatic first night, the January 6 panel plans many more high-profile auditions Trump spoke to those around him about Pence as he watched on television the rioters besieging the Capitol, The Post reported earlier. Minutes after Pence and his family were threatened by the mob in favor of Trump and forced to leave the Senate, Trump wrote on Twitter that the vice president did not have the “courage”. “Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what needed to be done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states the opportunity to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones they were previously asked to certify. “, Wrote Trump. “The US demands the truth!” Trump has continued to falsely claim that Pence had the power to overturn the 2020 election by counting congressional votes, which he did not do. Such false allegations helped fuel the chant to hang Pence on the Capitol Uprising. Cheney’s statement about what Trump allegedly said about Pence was one of the most revealing moments of a night full of them. Journalist Ben Jacobs wrote on Twitter that “breathing noises were heard in the room” when Cheney spoke of Trump’s alleged support for Pence’s hanging. Cheney received support from both conservatives and liberals on social media for what he described as a “balanced, sober, methodological” opening statement. “Liz Cheney’s presentation will remain, in my judgment, in the history books: Congress at its best, Truth at its best, American democracy at its best,” wrote Bill Christol, the longtime conservative commentator who divorced. with the GOP for Trump. Joyce Vance, a law professor at the University of Alabama, agreed: “If you are the Minister of Justice, you want a jury of Liz Cheney.” It’s incredible to watch this presentation by Liz Cheney, of all the GOPers. One of the most amazing — but most basic — profiles of political courage we have ever seen in our lives. – Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) June 10, 2022 Towards the end of her speech, Cheney, whose decision to join the Democrats on its panel’s gave her a major primary challenge and Trump’s hatred, sent another message to fellow Republicans who rejected the commission’s work. Among them was Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Who told Fox News this week that most Americans would not attend the hearings, calling it “junk.” “I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the defenseless,” Cheney said. “The day will come when Donald Trump will leave, but your dishonesty will remain.” Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman contributed to this report.