Liz Cheney Was a Republican…

… even before Donald Trump started …

Liz Cheney Likens Trump to Dictator after He Suggests She Face Firing Squad

THE GUARDIAN: Former congresswoman says Trump ‘wants to be a tyrant’ following former president’s comments

Donald Trump has called former congresswoman Liz Cheney a radical war hawk and said she should face being under fire with rifles “shooting at her” – prompting the anti-Trump Republican to warn the public against dictatorship and a presidential candidate who “wants to be a tyrant”.

Cheney recently endorsed Kamala Harris and has campaigned with her, trying to persuade Republicans who don’t want Trump to win another term in the White House in this election to vote for the Democratic ticket of the US vice-president and her running mate, Tim Walz. » | Maya Yang and Joanna Walters in New York and Chris Stein in Glendale, Arizona | Friday, November 1, 2024

Trump Reposts Image Calling for Military Tribunals against Liz Cheney

Jun 2, 2024 | Donald Trump on Sunday reposted on his social media account an image calling for military tribunals for former Rep. Liz Cheney.

The Lincoln Project: Liz Cheney on The View

Jan 10, 2024 | Liz Cheney speaks with integrity and conviction. And she's right to say that history will judge Trump's MAGA enablers.

Liz Cheney: I Will Never Vote for Donald Trump Again

Dec 4, 2023 | Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney joins TODAY to talk about her new memoir, “Oath and Honor,” and the risk former President Donald Trump could have on democracy if he is reelected in 2024. “A vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in,” she says.

Rep. Liz Cheney: “Trump Is Not an ‘Impressionable Child’ and Is Responsible for His Actions” | #shorts

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Trump Is ‘Single Most Dangerous Threat’ to the US, Warns Republican Liz Cheney

THE GUARDIAN: Moderate, whose opposition to former president had cost her a congressional seat, considers a 2024 presidential run

Liz Cheney speaks during a hearing to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, in Washington on 13 October 2022. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Donald Trump is “the single most dangerous threat” the US faces as he seeks a return to the Oval Office, according to Liz Cheney, the moderate Republican whose opposition to her party leader’s presidency had cost her a congressional seat she held for six years.

“He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things that he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people … he will do,” Cheney – the daughter of former congressman, defense secretary and vice-president Dick Cheney – said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “There will be no guardrails. And everyone has been left warned.”

Cheney’s fiery remarks come as the former president fights more than 90 criminal charges for subversion of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden, retention of government secrets after his presidency, and hush-money payments to the porn actor Stormy Daniels. He is also grappling with civil lawsuits over his business affairs and a rape allegation deemed “substantially true” by a judge.

Though his popularity with the general public is low, he maintains substantial polling leads in the race to clinch the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election. » | Ramon Antonio Vargas | Monday, October 23, 2023

Liz Cheney Now Supports Same-sex Marriage

Sep 26, 2021 The Republican Congresswoman tells 60 Minutes she has reversed her 2013 statements about same-sex marriage: “I was wrong.”

Liz Cheney Considers Run for President after Republican Primary Defeat

THE GUARDIAN: Wyoming congresswoman says ‘It’s something I’m thinking about’ after losing to Trump-backed challenger

Liz Cheney, who is vice-chair of the House January 6 committee, has vowed to ‘do whatever it takes to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office’. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images
Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney has announced she is considering her own run for the White House in an all-out effort to prevent Donald Trump from winning another term as US president.

Cheney decisively lost her Republican primary race on Tuesday night and will lose her seat in the US Congress.

The Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman beat Cheney by almost 40 points as Wyoming voters took revenge for her voting to impeach Trump and for focusing on her role on the January 6 House select committee.

The panel, of which Cheney is vice-chair and one of only two Republicans, is investigating Trump’s role in fomenting the insurrection at the US Capitol by his supporters on 6 January 2021, in a vain attempt to stay in office following his defeat by Joe Biden.

Cheney was asked on NBC’s Today show on Wednesday morning whether she was thinking of running for president. She did not respond to the question directly but, when pressed a second time, admitted she was.

“It’s something I’m thinking about, and I’ll make a decision in the coming months,” she said. » | David Smith in Jackson, Wyoming, Richard Luscombe and Joanna Walters | Wednesday, August 17, 2022

The Lincoln Project: Cheney to Republicans

Jun 11, 2022 • "Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible – there will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain."

Liz Cheney: The 60 Minutes Interview

Sep 27, 2021 • Liz Cheney tells Lesley Stahl about running for re-election as an anti-Trump Republican in Wyoming, where her own party there has called for her resignation, and joining the House Select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot.

Liz Cheney Castigates Republican Colleagues for Backing Trump

The US representative Liz Cheney, speaking in the House a day before her expected ouster from a Republican leadership post, chastised her party colleagues for not standing up to the former president Donald Trump and his false claim that the November election was stolen. ’Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that,’ she said.

Cheney, the No 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump in January after he delivered a fiery 6 January speech to supporters, many of whom then stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to block certification of his election loss to Joe Biden

Cheney Embraces Her Downfall, Warning G.O.P. of Trump in a Fiery Speech

THE NEW YORK TIMES: “I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law,” Representative Liz Cheney said on the eve of a vote to remove her from House Republican leadership.

WASHINGTON — In the hours before facing a vote that will almost certainly purge her from House Republican leadership, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming remained unrepentant on Tuesday, framing her expulsion as a turning point for her party and declaring in an extraordinary speech that she would not sit quietly by as Republicans abandoned the rule of law.

Delivering the broadside from the House floor on Tuesday night, Ms. Cheney took a fiery last stand, warning that former President Donald J. Trump had created a threat that the nation had never seen before: a president who had “provoked a violent attack” on his own Capitol “in an effort to steal the election,” and then continued to spread his election lies.

“Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar,” Ms. Cheney said. “I will not participate in that. I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president’s crusade to undermine our democracy.”

Her defiant exit — and unmistakable jab at the House Republican leaders working to oust her — illustrates Ms. Cheney’s determination to continue her blunt condemnation of Mr. Trump and her party’s role in spreading the false election claims that inspired the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. On the precipice of the vote to remove her on Wednesday, she has embraced her downfall rather than fight it, offering herself as a cautionary tale in what she is portraying as a battle for the soul of the Republican Party. » | Catie Edmondson | Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Dick and Liz Cheney on Restoring American Exceptionalism

Sep. 01, 2015 - 6:27 - Former vice president and daughter discuss new book 'Exceptional'

Liz Cheney: Time to 'Stand Up and Fight' to Save America

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Far out in the America west, under the big skies and rough-hewn landscapes of Wyoming, near the town that William "Buffalo Bill" Cody gave his name, a race is on for the soul of America.

And it is a woman with a familiar surname in US politics that is asking for a chance to lead a renewed assault on Washington and rid America of, what she sees as, the scourge of Barack Obama, impending socialism and the grasping hand of big government.

Liz Cheney – 46-year-old daughter of former US vice president Dick Cheney – doesn't stand much over five feet tall in her cowboy boots, but from behind her sunglasses she radiates the kind of toughness that suits a place where you can still legally take a six-shooter into a bar.

It is very early days in her race for the 2014 Senate, but as Mrs Cheney takes to the stump to address a meeting of the Big Horn Basin branch of the Tea Party, she is breathing conservative fire and warning that America is facing "a moment of decision."

Just as Winston Churchill refused to "seek terms with Nazis" and "saved freedom and civilisation" in 1940; just as Margaret Thatcher saved Britain from the "ravages of socialism" and Ronald Reagan saved America from the "morass" of the Carter years, Mrs Cheney says it is now time to "stand up and fight."

The comparisons with Nazism might sound a little over-the-top, but not to Wyoming's Tea Party activists who believe with a passion that the essence of America embodied in the US Constitution, is being frittered away.

Most are over 60, and believe the America that they grew up in – hardscrabble, self-reliant, enterprising and "free" – is being suffocated by a stultifying blanket of petty regulation and political correctness that intrudes everywhere from farmyard to workplace; to classroom and beyond. » | Peter Foster in Cody, Wyoming | Sunday, August 25, 2013