Washington – Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined “Wake Up Wyoming” earlier today to discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) cover-up of COVID-19 that led to the international spread of the virus. Click here to listen to her full remarks and see an excerpt of the transcript below:

NICK LEARNED: Over the weekend, I should say, we saw news coverage of the NHS report – China potentially involved in some degree of cover-up of the coronavirus so that they could hold on to their own supplies and stockpile of PPE, that kind of thing. You’ve talked the last couple of weeks about the role of the Chinese government regarding the spread of the virus. To what degree do you hold Beijing responsible, and how will U.S. leadership hold the Chinese government accountable?

REP. LIZ CHENEY: Yeah, they’re completely responsible. They understood that they had human-to-human transmission. They disappeared and probably killed the doctors that were trying to warn the world about it. They didn’t let international teams in, and they caused the virus to be spread globally. I think they probably assessed, once they figured out they had human-to-human transmission and they shut down travel from Wuhan into the rest of China, but they left it open from Wuhan into the rest of the world, I would imagine … that what they decided was … this was going to have a huge, detrimental impact on their own economy and they didn’t want to have the blow just to their own economy. By causing this virus to be spread globally, I think it’s entirely likely that it was an intentional economic decision on their part — they would be better off if the whole world suffered, not just China suffering. I think there is no question, but because of the lies, because of the cover-up, because of the way that they’ve operated, they caused this virus to be spread globally and they’ve got to be held accountable for that.