‘Bait and switch’: Liz Cheney book tears into Mike Johnson over pro-Trump January 6 brief

Oath and Honor, obtained by the Guardian ahead of release, says House speaker snuck baseless claims of electoral fraud past Republican signatories

In a new book Liz Cheney, the anti-Trump Republican accuses Mike Johnson of dishonesty over both the authorship of a supreme court brief in support of Donald Trump's attempt to overthrow the 2020 election and the document's contents, saying the US House speaker duped his party with a bait and switch".

As I read the amicus brief - which was poorly written - it became clear Mike was being less than honest," Cheney writes. He was playing bait and switch, assuring members that the brief made no claims about specific allegations of [electoral] fraud when, in fact, it was full of such claims."