Trump Blasts ‘Totally Corrupt’ Liz Cheney After She Was Given Award By Biden

President-elect Donald Trump slammed former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Friday after she was given an award by President Joe Biden this week for her controversial work with the Democrats on the unofficial, partisan January 6 committee.

Biden awarded Cheney on Thursday with the Presidential Citizens Medal, the second highest award a president can give to civilians, because of her work in trying to take down Trump.

Trump called Cheney “totally corrupt” and noted that she and the rest of the committee “destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.”

“Cheney has the distinction of losing her Congressional seat by the largest margin in History!” Trump wrote. “The people of Wyoming understood how bad for our Country she was, but Biden rewarded her only because she hated ‘TRUMP.'”

Trump called Cheney a “low intelligence” person and a “dishonest thug” along with everyone else on the committee.

“Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the help which was offered for security. She is responsible, and admitted as much, for all to see, on her daughter’s tape,” Trump said. “They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America. January 20th cannot come fast enough. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Biden gave Liz Cheney a Medal yesterday, even though she has proven to be totally corrupt. She, “Bennie” Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th. Cheney has the distinction of losing her…

— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) January 3, 2025

Cheney responded to Trump’s statement by suggesting he was a communist, saying: “Donald, this is not the Soviet Union.”

Cheney said that as Trump takes office, “the American people need to reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to protect the America we love from you.”

Cheney served as the vice chair of the unofficial House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2020, riot at the U.S. Capitol. During her time on that committee, Cheney communicated with an anti-Trump witness behind her lawyer’s back, The Daily Wire reported, an astounding ethical violation for which Cheney faced no legal consequences. Biden aides have discussed a pre-emptive blanket pardon to protect Cheney from any inquiries or indictments from the incoming Trump administration that stem from her actions working against Trump. Biden aides have also discussed such pardons for Anthony Fauci and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who perpetuated the Russia collusion hoax against Trump.

Texts from Cheney show that she communicated with the J6 committee’s “star witness,” former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Cheney communicated with Hutchinson without her attorney Stefan Passantino’s knowledge.

“Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson’s juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were later found to be false, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book ‘Oath and Honor’ about the riot,” the New York Post reported in October.

Cheney also campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harris in the closing weeks of her losing campaign. Given Biden’s seeming attempts to undermine Harris’ campaign, rewarding Cheney could be seen as a double win for the outgoing president.

Biden is also bestowing the award on Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who led the J6 committee with Cheney. In 2005, Thompson, along with 30 other Democrats, protested the certification of Ohio’s election results even though then-Sen. John Kerry had already conceded the election.