Ms Cheney made the remarks in response to revelations in a new book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman that the former president told aides he would remain in the White House even after Joe was sworn in. Biden. According to Haberman’s soon-to-be-released book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, the 45th president reportedly told aides, “I’m just not going to go away.” “We never leave. How can you leave when you won an election?” Ms. Cheney, who is one of two Republicans on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, said she was not “surprised that these are the sentiments that he reportedly expressed.” “In a lot of ways people say it wasn’t as dangerous as it really was,” he told CNN on Monday. “And when you hear something like that, I think you have to recognize that we were in no country and no territory that we had ever been to as a nation. “And if you have a president who refuses to leave the White House or who says he refuses to leave the White House, then anyone who stands aside and says somebody else will handle it is putting the nation at risk themselves, because it’s clear that , when you’re in a moment that we’re facing, everybody has to stand up and take responsibility,” Ms. Cheney said. “I think that, again, it just confirms, confirms the reality of the risk.” Meanwhile, the Justice Department investigating the riots has issued 40 grand jury subpoenas to Mr. Trump’s aides and advisers in the past week. The subpoenas, which were issued as part of a secret grand jury investigation into Mr Trump’s push to stay in the White House despite losing the election, have also targeted people who have remained close to him since his term ended on January 20 2021, including his longtime social media guru Daniel Scavino.
