GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were formally censured on Friday by the Republican National Committee (RNC) over their vocal criticism of former President Trump and participation in the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi convened last year.
The censoring resolution was unanimously passed on Thursday at the RNC’s winter meeting in Salt Lake City through the resolutions committee along with four other motions, including one to hold China accountable for Covid-19.
The resolution condemned Cheney and Kinzinger for participating, as it says, in the persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse by sitting on the Jan. 6 panel, noting RNC will immediately cease all support of both Cheney and Kinzinger due to their destructive behavior.
Many GOP members found Cheney and Kinzinger’s sitting on the Jan. 6 committee unacceptable, saying their focus on the insurrection and on Trump flies in the face of the GOP, and have excoriated them.
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel stressed that Cheney and Kinzinger crossed a line choosing to join the Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse that had nothing to do with violence at the Capitol.
Their behavior has been deemed damaging to the Republican Party and the institution of the US House of Representatives and inconsistent with the position of the RNC.
Though it is the strongest effort thus far to specifically punish the two GOP House lawmakers, indicating how Republicans’ rhetoric around the riot has shifted over the past year, the censure stopped short of calls to boot Cheney and Kinzinger from the Conference.
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