Liz Cheney: 'Republicans cannot be both loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution'

[RAB910]

Rep. Liz Cheney, speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday, said it’s time for Republicans to make a choice: Donald Trump or the Constitution.

The vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee leaned into her message just a day after White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s stunning testimony unveiled new details about the highest echelons of the White House in the final days and hours before the violent Capitol attack.

In taking the stage at the Reagan Library in California, Cheney didn’t shy away from her newfound role as the face of the anti-Trump GOP and a relic of the Republican Party before the dominance of Trump, who she said is “attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic.” The Wyoming Republican, who has yet to rule out a run for president in 2024, spoke in a manner that paves the path for a presidential run.


She ran through the Jan. 6 committee’s damning weeks of testimony that has illustrated Trump’s multi-pronged attempt to hold on to power and his bubbling rage. Cheney mentioned Trump’s summoning of rioters to Washington, D.C., and Hutchinson’s claim that Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Trump felt that “Mike deserves it” as rioters called for the death of then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6. Cheney took aim at Republicans and elected officials who have “made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man.”

“It’s undeniable. It’s also painful for Republicans to accept. And I think we all have to recognize and understand what it means to say those words, and what it means that those things happened,” Cheney said to the crowd at a site long associated with traditional Republican values as reflected in Reagan’s presidency.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/29/liz-cheney-republicans-trump-constitution-00043374

[Lovie777]

1. Republicans don't believe in the Constitution either . . ..

like the Bible where they pick certain verses distort them for their own image.

I do not trust Republicans.

[efhmc]

2. What was the crowd's reaction, I wonder?

[Stuart G]

5. According to a video posted here, she recieved a "standing ovation when she said those words"

[Martin68]

3. Well, that's a no brainer...for anyone with brain.

[Stuart G]

4. K & R.. Here is a link to her speech

A link to her speech:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017746800

[Stuart G]

6. Some of the most important words ever spoken by any politician..Like Kennedy's words, or better

like Lincoln said, "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not parish from this earth."

So, You don't think so?...Give it time..that is what will be remembered about Donald Trump..that one sentence...Why?

That sentence describes Donald Trump totally and exactly. His actions totally contradicted the U.S. Constitution.

Am I correct that Trump tried to stop a peacefully demonstration? Is that right? Am I telling the truth?