Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney (WY) just dropped another embarrassing truth about her colleagues, confirming during an interview on CNN on Friday that the GOP is indeed a party of cowards.
The Wyoming Republican told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” that several Republican members of Congress told her that they voted against impeaching Trump out of cowardice, because they feared for their own lives.
“There are more members who believe in substance and policy and ideals than are willing to say so,” Cheney said as she cited the impeachment vote earlier this year, in which she was one of only 10 House Republicans who voted to hold Trump accountable for the Capitol riot.
“If you look at the vote to impeach, for example, there were members who told me that they were afraid for their own security — afraid, in some instances, for their lives,” she said. “And that tells you something about where we are as a country, that members of Congress aren’t able to cast votes, or feel that they can’t, because of their own security.”
Cheney, whose criticism of former President Donald Trump led to her ouster from House Republican leadership, said her role as a member of Congress obligated her to oppose the widespread lie of fraud in the election and she believes that “we’ve had a collapse of truth in this country.”
“We’ve seen an evolution of, you know, a general situation where conspiracy theories are rampant, where good people in a lot of instances have been misled and believe things that are not true,” Cheney continued. “And so, I think that we all have an obligation to make sure we’re doing everything we can to convey the truth, to stand for the truth and to stand for the Constitution and our obligations.”
Trump and his lies seeking to undermine the federal election system are an “ongoing danger” to the country, Cheney said.
“He may try, but he won’t succeed,” she said when asked if she thought Trump would try in 2024 to purge from the party people like her and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who was adamant in defending the results of the presidential election as well as the integrity of the state’s voting system.
She pointed to “the role individuals have to play in defending the system, and how important that is — our system held, the institutions held. There’s an ongoing danger and we’ve got to continue to stand up against it.”
“I think it’s important for us to have people in leadership who are conservative and I think it’s also really important for us to have people in leadership who are committed to the truth and committed to the Constitution,” she said.
Watch a portion of the interview below, via CNN.
“We have to save the party,” Rep. Liz Cheney says about the future of the GOP.
“It’s really important for all of us to get to the bottom of what happened in 2020, what happened on January 6th, and to go forward looking towards truth.” https://t.co/Fum5O4Dr7P pic.twitter.com/UKRh3dMo4i
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