Trump contradicts Cheney, asserts he was ‘eating too much’ after Jan. 6

Former President Trump fiercely denied former Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) claim that he was “depressed and not eating” after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, saying in a social media post Monday that, in fact, he was angry and “eating too much.”

In Cheney’s new book, she recounts a conversation after the Capitol riot with then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). McCarthy allegedly told Cheney he visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after the riot because Trump was depressed and not eating.

“That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday.

“But that’s not why [Kevin] McCarthy was there,” Trump continued. “He was at Mar-a-Lago to get my support, and to bring the Republican Party together – Only good intentions.”

Trump, the leading GOP presidential candidate in 2024, continued, attacking “Crazy Liz Cheney,” one of Trump’s most high-profile and effective GOP critics. She was the vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol and has repeatedly used her platform to warn of the danger she thinks Trump poses to American democracy.

“Liz Cheney, on the other hand, went on to lose her seat in Congress by the largest margin for a sitting Congressperson in the history of the U.S. She then worked with others on the J6 Committee to delete and destroy the evidence and findings of the committee,” Trump said, repeating a baseless claim about the committee.

The committee published an 814-page final report from its investigation and published additional evidence on a publicly available government site.  

Cheney lost her reelection bid in 2022 after defiantly refuting false claims of a stolen election.

“This primary election is over. But now the real work begins,” Cheney said after losing the primary race.

“So, I ask you tonight to join me. As we leave here, let us resolve that we will stand together — Republicans, Democrats and independents — against those who would destroy our republic,” she later added.