Republican Consultant Liz Cheney fired a warning to members of her personal social gathering who again former President Donald Trump throughout her opening remarks for the primary hearings into the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.

"I say this to my Republican colleagues who're defending the indefensible. There'll come a day when Donald Trump is gone, however your dishonor will stay," Cheney, the vice-chair of the Home choose committee investigating the Capitol riot, mentioned.

The remarks by the Republican lawmaker bear similarity to feedback she made in January when she advised that members of her social gathering should select between being loyal to both the U.S. Structure or to Trump.

Shortly after the riot on the U.S. Capitol, which occurred whereas Congress was in the course of certifying the 2020 presidential election outcomes, the Wyoming Republican shortly condemned Trump and her GOP colleagues for spreading the unfounded declare that the election was stolen.

U.S. Representative Liz Cheney
Republican Consultant Liz Cheney has slammed members of the GOP who're backing former President Donald Trump within the wake of the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Above, Cheney speaks throughout a Home Choose Committee listening to to analyze the January 6 assault on the Capitol, in Washington, D.C. on June 9, 2022. MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Photographs

"I feel the nation wants a powerful Republican Social gathering going ahead, however our social gathering has to decide on," Cheney mentioned throughout an look on Face the Nation. "We are able to both be loyal to Donald Trump or we will be loyal to the Structure, however we can't be each.

She additionally urged her Republican colleagues in January to "be based on constancy to the Structure."

Taking an identical stand on Thursday, Cheney mentioned throughout her opening remarks: "In our nation, we do not swear an oath to a person, or a political social gathering. We take our oath to defend america Structure. And that oath should imply one thing."

"There's a motive why folks serving in our Authorities take an oath to the Structure," she continued. "As our founding fathers acknowledged, democracy is fragile. Folks in positions of public belief are duty-bound to defend it—to step ahead when motion is required."

In November, Cheney additionally known as Republican leaders who proceed to embrace Trump "prepared hostages."

She is one in every of two Republicans who sit on the nine-member January 6 panel.

Cheney mentioned the panel's hearings this month will hear testimony, stay and on video, from greater than a half dozen former White Home employees within the Trump administration, all of whom have been within the West Wing of the White Home on January 6, 2021.

"All People ought to bear in mind this truth: On the morning of January 6, President Donald Trump's intention was to stay President of america regardless of the lawful final result of the 2020 election and in violation of his Constitutional obligation to relinquish energy," she mentioned.

Trump "oversaw and coordinated a complicated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and forestall the switch of presidential energy. In our hearings, you will note proof of every component of this plan," Cheney added.

"As People, all of us have an obligation to make sure what occurred on January sixth by no means occurs once more, to put aside partisan battles to face collectively to perpetuate and protect our nice Republic," the congresswoman mentioned.

The investigation into the January 6 assault continues to be ongoing.