Ms Cheney made the statement after the US House Select Committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol voted to hold Seve Bannon in contempt of Congress. The former Trump aide was summoned to testify before the committee, but refused to do so. The panel has argued that Bannon knew what was going to happen on January 6th as the day before he said on his podcast: "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow".
"This is a prescription for national self-destruction. All of us who are elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law, and to ensure that nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again", she said.
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Addressing the crowd, Donald Trump and other speakers at the rally reiterated claims about the election being stolen. Trump also called on his supporters to "march" on Congress.
"You are the people that built this nation. You have to get your people to fight", the president told his supporters.
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On Monday, Donald Trump sued the House Select Committee investigating the 6 January attack, arguing that the documents sought by the body for the probe are protected by executive privilege.
"The Committee's request amounts to nothing less than a vexatious, illegal fishing expedition openly endorsed by [President] Biden and designed to unconstitutionally investigate President Trump and his administration. Our laws do not permit such an impulsive, egregious action against a former president and his close advisers", reads the lawsuit filed Monday in the US District Court in Washington, DC.