Liz Cheney Deserves More Than Just A Pardon

The following is part of a post by Robert Reich:

When she was a member of Congress, former Representative Liz Cheney took positions on many issues that I abhorred. I suspect you did, too. 

But on the transcendent issue of American democracy and Trump’s culpability in trying to destroy it, she’s been a rare voice of clarity and courage — and continues to be. 

Yesterday, Cheney called out Trump’s threat, which he made on “Meet the Press,” to imprison her and other members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

 

She said Trump’s threat was an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.” Precisely right. 

She rejected Trump’s claim that the select committee destroyed evidence during its investigation and his assertion that “for what they did, honestly, they should go to jail.”

Cheney went on to urge special counsel Jack Smith to make public the evidence he and his assistants have gathered in his investigation of Trump’s role in trying to overturn the 2020 election.

At a time when most current and former Republican officials are mouthing Trump’s lies or keeping quiet — because they’ve sold their souls to their political ambitions or they’re intimidated by potential violence from Trump and his MAGA thugs — Cheney continues to serve the nation with courage and honor by telling the truth about the despicable traitor who will become president six weeks from now. 

She doesn’t need a pardon from Biden because Trump’s claim wouldn’t last an instant in federal court. What she deserves from Biden is a Presidential Medal of Freedom.