Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

by Liz Cheney

It is important to compare the Trump team’s knowledge at the time with what Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and John Eastman said at the president’s January 6 Ellipse rally before tens of thousands of angry supporters whom Trump was directing to march to the Capitol. Their speeches continued to fraudulently claim that Dominion Voting Systems machines had corrupted the election. Rudy Giuliani urged “trial by combat,” while Donald Trump said this: “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules.” Donald Trump has frequently returned to this notion—that his election-fraud allegations justified unconstitutional and illegal acts: “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”