Former House leader Liz Cheney could face the same witness tampering allegations she levied against President-elect Donald Trump years earlier, according to Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA).

Loudermilk requested that the DOJ investigate Cheney last week and appeared on "Life, Liberty and Levin" 0n Fox News to explain the request.

“I am only using Liz’s own standards that she used," Loudermilk said. "If you go back to July of 2022, in one of their televised hearings, Liz Cheney started talking about Donald Trump making a phone call to one of their witnesses. It wasn’t even successful; he just attempted to make a phone call to someone they interviewed. She then referred that to the Department of Justice of potential witness tampering just because he attempted to make a phone call.”

What she said Trump did, he doesn't seem to have done, Loudermilk said, but Cheney actually did tamper with a witness.

Changed testimony

“Now, compare that to what we have the evidence Liz Cheney actually did," he said. "She did communicate with Cassidy Hutchinson. She did acknowledge it was inappropriate communications. After she communicated with Cassidy Hutchinson, then Cassidy Hutchinson changed her testimony.”

Hutchinson gave 24 hours of testimony as a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows.

After the testimony, she allegedly talked to Cheney, fired her lawyer, and changed her testimony based on what Cheney said.

Cheney helped her find a new attorney, and her previous attorney was not aware that Cheney was talking to his client.

Cheney could face jail time

“This is why we’re saying, ‘Look, I cannot make that determination, but the Department of Justice can,'” Loudermilk said.

The subcommittee led by Loudermilk cited 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which prohibits witness tampering. Cheney could get 20 years in jail if she is found to have violated the law.

She is not protected by the Constitution's speech and debate clause because her actions did not have bearing on the legislative process.

Democrats and a few select Republicans like Cheney have thrown the book at Trump, or tried to, but they should be careful in how they accuse him, since in many cases they are guilty of the same supposed crimes.

And they cannot expect mercy or even fair justice when they have tried so hard to bring him down.

It's just another example of how they unfairly use laws and the justice system to target opponents, and it's only fair that they would be targeted in return if that's how they want to play the political game.