Liz Cheney Talks Trash To GOP Colleagues For Sucking Up To Trump

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is not backing down from her opposition to former President Donald Trump and what he represents. She’s taken somewhat of a step back from her home state’s GOP, The New York Times notes in a new report, although she’s still “held dozens of meetings with Wyomingites via videoconference and said she planned to attend a Lincoln Day dinner later this month,” the Times adds. Elsewhere, she has been at times conspicuously absent, leaving local party-tied events to her opponents — but she indicated that she’s not concerned. Essentially, she relayed, those in the Wyoming GOP who’ve stuck with Trump over the Constitution are a lost cause. As Cheney commented:

‘I’m not going to convince the crazies and I reject the crazies. I reject the notion that somehow we don’t have to abide by the rule of law. And the people right now who are in the leadership of our state party, I’m not trying to get their support because they’ve abandoned the Constitution.’

It’s a sentiment similar to what she said when facing down a recently passed censure resolution from the Republican National Committee. Censure doesn’t do much — it’s just a formal rebuke, basically — but the measure does show the lengths to which party leaders are apparently willing to go to shore up their support for Trump. The resolution itself even characterized events on and surrounding January 6 as “legitimate political discourse” — although party chairwoman Ronna McDaniel eventually insisted that the language wasn’t meant to apply to those who attacked the Capitol. The resolution made no such distinction. As Cheney laid things out, the “leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy,” adding: “I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump.”

Cheney is running for re-election and facing down a Republican primary challenger who is supported by both Donald Trump and the Wyoming Republican Party, which also censured her. Still, she’s persistent in her efforts to lay out the dangers of Trumpism, including through the work of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot, where she is the vice-chair. Investigators on the committee have heard from over 500 witnesses so far, and they’ve obtained a slew of records from the Trump presidency that the ex-president himself sought to keep hidden.

In the near future, committee members are planning on hosting public hearings, with Cheney insisting in the meantime that the panel is “focused on facts, not rhetoric, and we will present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face.” Notably, longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani is apparently in the process of cooperating in some form with the panel, adding yet another high-profile name to the list of those around Trump who’ve been poised to provide information to investigators. Giuliani is facing a whole host of problems, like billions of dollars worth of defamation litigation tied to his lies about the last election’s integrity.



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