Trump ‘demanded a straight-up quid pro quo’ from Kim Kardashian, later broke with her over Biden: Book
by Judy Kurtz - 11/13/23 9:27 AM ET

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He welcomed her into the Oval Office in 2018, but former President Trump reportedly had a much different response after the 2020 presidential election when Kim Kardashian called asking him for a criminal justice-related favor: “Hell no.”

The episode, which included Trump hanging up on the reality TV star, is recounted in Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book “Tired of Winning.”


Kardashian made headlines in 2018 when she met with Trump in the Oval Office to discuss prison reform and sentencing. Days after the meeting, Trump granted clemency to Alice Johnson, who was serving a life sentence on nonviolent drug and money laundering charges.

“I have nothing bad to say about the president,” Kardashian said later that year. “He has done something amazing.”

Kardashian later would urge Trump to grant more commutations, according to the ABC News journalist’s book, as first reported Monday by Axios’s Mike Allen.

“A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo,” Karl said in his book.

“[Trump] would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House.”

The 43-year-old SKIMS founder “actually tried to do what Trump demanded,” according to Karl, “seeing it as a small price to pay to get justice for people she believed were serving unjust sentences. But all the players she approached declined. Trump had become too toxic.”


After Trump exited the White House in 2021, Kardashian reached out to the ex-commander in chief about snagging his support for other clemency efforts.

“Hell no, the former president told her. He wouldn’t do it,” Karl wrote.

“’You voted for Biden and now you come asking me for a favor?’ Trump told her,” the book said.


“After a few more choice words, the line went dead. Trump had hung up on her.”

While Karl noted that Kardashian never publicly endorsed a 2020 White House hopeful, she posted heart emojis on a photo of then-President-elect Biden and Kamala Harris on social media in the days after the November election.

In 2021, Kardashian said she was a mixture of both political parties.


“I believe in the rights that the Democrats want, but I believe in the taxes that the Republicans want,” she said at the time.

A spokesperson for Trump ripped Karl’s book, telling Axios, “This filth either belongs in the discount bargain bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or should be repurposed as toilet paper.”



https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4306950-trump-kim-kardashian-biden-jonathan-karl/

 

Trump loyalist bashes him for the first time as 'a traitor' and a complete idiot: book

Sarah K. Burris
November 13, 2023 9:12PM ET



Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


A Donald Trump loyalist came forward for the first time to bash him in Jonathan Karl's new book.

In an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, the ABC News reporter revealed that in his book "Tired of Winning," someone who has previously not come out publicly against Trump dropped a bomb on the former president.

"He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring," the former White House official told Karl. "He is morally bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent, and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything related to governing, history, geography, human events or world affairs. He is a traitor and a malignancy in the nation, and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy, and the rule of law."

Karl explained that the person was in the West Wing and worked alongside Trump for more than a year at a "high level." The key title is "official," indicating it wasn't a staffer or aide.

The person was "very close to Donald Trump," Karl continued, "not somebody that went out publicly and repeated the lies about the elections. He's not one of those people. But he also is not supported and publicly come out to condemn Trump either. He's not what they would call the usual suspects. This is somebody who served him, served him loyally for more than a year, and it gets to a fundamental truth about Donald Trump, that is the most piercing and searing criticism of him. The people who are sounding the alarm loudest about what a second Trump term would mean, are those who are closest to him. Some of them have gone public, and people like John Kelly, have gone public, to make this point. A lot of not. This is — you might ask, why don't they come out? Why doesn't this person come out and it's a good question,"

The fear, Karl revealed, is the retribution from both Trump and his people against him and his family.

Karl's book drops at midnight.

See the shocking excerpt in the clip below or at the link here.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-stupid-ignorant-traitor-book/

 

rump official suspected of backstabbing colleague to secure Vatican visit: book

Sarah K. Burris
November 14, 2023 7:31AM ET



Pope Francis meets with Donald Trump March 2017 (Photo: Screen capture)


Donald Trump's administration circumvented Vatican protocol during a 2017 visit.

According to a new book by Jonathan Karl, "Tired of Winning," when the administration was headed to the Vatican in March of their first year, they were told just 10 members of his entourage could join him.

Deputy chief of staff, Joe Hagin, was handling the logistics, told Trump that it might be a good idea to bring those who "helped you get here," meaning the presidency.

"Trump jotted down the names on a piece of paper and handed it to Hagin. The list included his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as several high-level White House staffers, including H. R. McMaster, Gary Cohn, Hope Hicks, Dina Powell, and Dan Scavino," Karl wrote.

There is a story about press secretary Sean Spicer being snubbed from the list of White House members attending the meeting. Spicer, a devout Catholic, expected to be there, just as other press secretaries had. He even brought his rosary, hoping to have it blessed. Trump didn't care and still left him off the list.

One story that wasn't previously told, however, is that Gary Cohn and Dina Powell didn't feel like it was appropriate for them to go since they weren't Catholic.

"Hagin explained it was too late to change the names, but based on his experience on previous presidential trips to meet the pope, he said he didn’t think the Vatican would check the IDs of the president’s entourage. If they wanted to give away their spots on the visit, whoever took their places would simply have to identify themselves to the guard at the door as Gary Cohn and Dina Powell," the book says.

"With that, Powell gave her spot on the Vatican visit to Julie Radford, Ivanka Trump’s chief of staff, and Cohn let Brian Hook, a senior State Department official, take his place. Both of the substitutes were devout Catholics who were thrilled about the chance to meet the pope, even if it meant telling a little white lie to get into the room," it continues. But then it takes what Karl calls a "Trumpy turn" in the story.

"When Trump’s entourage arrived at the pope’s offices, there was a person checking names but, as Hagin had said, not checking IDs. Brian Hook was let in as 'Gary Cohn.' But when Julie Radford walked up to take Dina Powell’s spot, she was stopped in her tracks."

“No!” the Vatican gatekeeper exclaimed, according to the book. “Dina Powell has already gone in!”

As it turns out, another person in Trump's team learned about the plot and went in before Radford, the "Dina Powell," claiming to be Dina Powell.

"When confronted by her colleagues, the official denied lying her way into the meeting," Karl wrote. "Nobody believed her, but who would call her out? Is it really a sin to deceive your colleagues at work when they are already lying to the Vatican?"

The staffer has not yet been revealed.

Pope Francis looked positively miserable when photos were taken, glaring into the cameras. Even in videos where he walked Trump into his office for a chat, the normally cheerful man who once washed the feet of youth prisoners, cast his eyes downward. The Trumps were ridiculed for the photo as everyone appeared miserable.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-vatican/

 

You might see some around here asking how low can they go. Or go lower. When the reality is their is no low Trump and his treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans will not sink to because they have no bottom.


‘Just call him a child abuser’: Trump told Walker to use slur against Warnock, book says
Martin Pengelly in Washington
Tue, November 14, 2023 at 9:42 AM MST·2 min read
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As Herschel Walker faced defeat by his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock in a high-stakes US Senate election in Georgia last year, Donald Trump advised the Republican candidate: “Just call him a child abuser.”

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At first, Walker did not take the former president’s advice, letting go his sole debate with Warnock – a church pastor – without raising the slur.


But according to Jonathan Karl, ABC News’s chief Washington correspondent and the author of a new book on Trump’s Republican party, “all bets were off once the race went to a run-off”.

“‘Y’all know what he did at that camp?’ Walker falsely told a crowd of supporters in late November. ‘This young man said there was sexual abuse and there was physical abuse. I’m like, Who did that? It has to be Senator Raphael Warnock, because he was responsible for it.’”

Trump’s advice to the former college football and NFL star, and Walker’s garbled recounting of the slur, is reported in Karl’s new book, Tired of Winning, published in the US on Tuesday.

Karl’s source is an unidentified senior Walker adviser who witnessed the conversation, which Walker put “on speakerphone so his team in the room could hear the strategic wisdom that was about to be offered”.

The claim against Warnock concerned alleged abuse in 2002 at a Maryland summer camp run by a church where he was then senior pastor. The allegation surfaced – and was used by the Republican Kelly Loeffler – during Warnock’s first victorious Senate run, which ended with a runoff win in January 2021.

Karl writes that a camper alleged a counselor threw urine at him and locked him outside overnight, as a punishment for wetting his bed.

“The story was horrible,” Karl writes, noting a reported financial settlement. “But labeling Warnock a ‘child molester’ was ridiculously wrong. There was no allegation of sexual abuse and no allegation whatsoever against Warnock himself. He was the pastor at the church, not the director of the camp.”

As reported at the time by the Baltimore Sun, Warnock and another church official were arrested after “a state trooper said the ministers prevented her from interviewing counselors as she investigated” the alleged abuse.

But the charges of interfering with an investigation were dismissed.

In 2020, when Loeffler brought up the incident, a spokesperson for Warnock told CNN: “The truth is he was protecting the rights of young people to make sure they had a lawyer or a parent when being questioned. Law enforcement officials later praised him for his help in this investigation.”

Karl also notes Walker’s own struggles with allegations of domestic violence and reports he paid for an abortion.

Warnock won the runoff, helping Democrats retain the Senate.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/just-call-him-child-abuser-164244832.html

 

Furious Trump reacts to book's bombshell revelations — with one particularly upsetting him

Sarah K. Burris
November 15, 2023 2:28PM ET



Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump (Twitter)


Donald Trump hit back at writer Jonathan Karl for a book published this week that's revealed dozens of bombshells about the former president.

But one revelation got particular focus from Trump — the ABC News reporter's claims involving Kim Kardashian.

While Trump did several taped interviews for the new book, "Tired of Winning," he said that the story that he requested Kardashian help him meet NFL players was "fake news."

"Failed ABC Fake News reporter Jonathan Karl just wrote another bad book. He works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent - Some people have it, and some people don’t," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

He went on to call Kardashian, "The World’s most overrated celebrity," and said that it was her pledge that she would "leverage her celebrity to get football stars to come to the White House."

His version differs from Karl's in the book, which detailed Kardashian's efforts to get Trump's support for her campaign to secure criminal justice reform.

"During the final days of the Trump presidency, Kim Kardashian pushed for more pardons and commutations," wrote Karl. "A source familiar with the conversations tells me Trump listened to her requests and demanded a straight-up quid pro quo. He would grant the commutations, he told Kardashian, if she leveraged her celebrity connections to get football stars who were friends of hers to come visit him at the White House."

"Trump was clearly stung by the refusal of Bill Belichick, head coach of the New England Patriots, to visit him at the White House days earlier," the book continued. "Trump had long considered Belichick a friend and supporter, and had offered him a Presidential Medal of Freedom — the federal government’s highest civilian honor. After January 6, however, Belichick announced he would not come to the White House to receive the award. He was 'flattered' by the offer, he said in a statement, but was turning it down because of 'the tragic events' of the week prior."

"Above all,” he said, “I am an American citizen with great reverence for our nation’s values, freedom and democracy.”

Trump goes on in his Truth Social post to claim he had no trouble getting players to come to the White House.

"If there was even a slight reluctance, I would immediately withdraw the invitation, there would be NO Negotiation - But this did not happen often," claimed Trump.

In the first two years of Trump's presidency, 20 major league sports teams were invited to the White House after championships, but only half agreed to come, The Fieldston News said in 2020.

While he refused to invite some teams, many made it clear they wouldn't have visited even if they were invited. There were also several team members of the 10 that did come to the White House who refused to attend.

Trump goes on to say that, though he helped with some of Kardashian's commutation request, they were only for those who were "deserving." It was more for Kanye West, Kardashian's then husband, than it was for her, he said, adding she "probably voted for Crooked Joe Biden, and look at the mess our Country is in now."

While West was part of the criminal justice reform lobbying group, it's Kardashian who has used her fame to press the issue for years. Kardashian, who was just revealed to have a net worth of $1.7 billion, came to the White House in May 2018 to appeal for a pardon for Alice Johnson, who was convicted of running a Memphis cocaine trafficking organization in 1996 and sentenced to life imprisonment

Trump gave the pardon and then promoted his criminal justice chops in a 2020 Superbowl ad.

But when asked about Johnson and Trump's demand for the death penalty for drug dealers in a June 2023 interview with Fox's Bret Baier, he seemed to forget Johnson and her case altogether.

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"Baier reminded Trump he had recently announced a plan to impose the death penalty for drug dealers," Karl's book recalls.

“But she’d be killed under your plan,” Baier said.

“Huh?” Trump replied.

“As a drug dealer,” Baier explained.

“No, no. No. Under my, oh, under that? Uhh, it would depend on the severity,” Trump fumbled.

“She’s technically a former drug dealer,” Baier explained. “She had a multimillion-dollar cocaine ring.”

“Any drug dealer,” Trump replied.

“So even Alice Johnson?” asked Baier.

“She can’t do it, okay? By the way, if that was there, she wouldn’t be killed, it would start as of now,” Trump insisted.

Just a week ago, Trump's daughter, Ivanka was invited to party with Kardashian for her birthday.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-trashes-kim-kardashian/

 

if you have read this thread you know this is well documented, But now it is getting more refined.

Trump to John Kelly. Why can't my generals be more like the German generals?

Kelly to Trump. Which ones?

Trump to Kelly Hitler's Generals were loyal.

Kelly to Trump you know they tried to kill him three tines.

 

Trump Trashed Iowa Evangelicals as ‘So-Called Christians’ and ‘Real Pieces of Sh*t’: New Book

Joe DePaoloNov 23rd, 2023, 2:48 pm
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As he tries to lock up a victory in the 2024 Iowa caucus, a new book is bringing to light statements previously made by former President Donald Trump trashing the Hawkeye state’s evangelicals.

According to The Guardian — which obtained a copy of the upcoming book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta — Trump bashed Iowa evangelicals in the throes of the 2016 Republican primary while he was battling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The comments came during the fallout from the former president’s infamous gaffe when he referred to a Bible verse from “two Corinthians.”

Alberta writes that Trump “began to speculate that there was a conspiracy among powerful evangelicals to deny him the GOP nomination. When Cruz’s allies began using the ‘Two Corinthians’ line to attack him in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, Trump told one Iowa Republican official, ‘You know, these so-called Christians hanging around with Ted are some real pieces of shit.’”


According to Alberta, Trump went on to “use even more colorful language to describe the evangelical community” in the years that followed.


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https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...d-christians-and-real-pieces-of-sht-new-book/

 

'I was dumbfounded': Bob Woodward reveals when Trump officials exposed his pandemic lies

Matthew Chapman
November 24, 2023 7:23PM ET



President Donald Trump and Bob Woodward


The following article is based on an interview that was replayed on MSNBC after its initial airing.

Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward opened up further about the "Trump Tapes" on MSNBC Friday with anchor Ari Melber, specifically documenting how he discovered Trump was lying to the public about the hazards posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We've spoken about this. Now we're sharing it with viewers," said Melber. "What do you think this all shows?"

"It shows a negligence to a national security problem for the country, a national health problem," said Woodward. "And it turns out in the reporting — and this is on tape — that Trump National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien and his deputy, Matt Pottinger, went to Trump in early January — that's the year that Trump is running for re-election — and O'Brien tells Trump, the coming virus will be the biggest threat, be the biggest national security threat to your presidency. Now, I've covered 16 national security advisers going back to Henry Kissinger and never heard that stark, dramatic warning that O'Brien gave. His deputy, Matt Pottinger, an expert on China, had been there seven years as a Wall Street Journal reporter, told the president, I have contacts in the medical underground that tell me in China that this is going to come in a way that there will be 650,000 deaths. A wake-up call."

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Upon learning this, said Woodward, "Trump ... spent months and months saying, oh, no, it's going to go away. So six months later, this is the moment you capture here where he says, oh, we've got it under control. and you can hear this in his own voice. And I say to him, under control? 140,000 people have died in this country since the virus, since it came. That's six months of no action."

"Was it clear from your access to him and those conversations at the time that he had absorbed some of these warnings?" asked Melber. "That he did know it was going to be that bad?"

"Well, it took me months to learn about the warnings from his national security advisers," said Woodward. "When I learned about it, I was dumbfounded. And we were in the middle of the crisis. And he still was not acting. This idea of, we have it under control, it was never under control. It intentionally was never under control. And the problem with Trump is, I think he looks at democracy as enemy territory, to be quite frank. Because that's the people. And he always wants it to be about him. And you listen to eight hours, and it's all about, oh, no, no, no, everything is fine, I know what I'm doing. And when you lay it all out, he did not know what he was doing, and he didn't care."

Watch the video below or at the link.





https://www.rawstory.com/woodward-dumbfounded-trump/

 

That is most definitely a very significant comma. It shows Mike Pence has definitely flipped on Trump and is more than willing to cooperate with Jack Smith.



'Commas matter': CNN legal analyst breaks down crucial new piece of evidence against Trump

Matthew Chapman
November 28, 2023 8:56AM ET



Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


Former Vice President Mike Pence is saying that a typographical error in his book obscured a serious moment in which he admonished former President Donald Trump against his plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Specifically, the former vice president told special counsel Jack Smith's team about the errant insertion of a comma in the statement "You know, I don't have the authority to change the outcome of the election," which made it look as if Pence was simply explaining it wouldn't work, when in reality he was scolding Trump that he knew it was illegal and was doing it anyway.

That tiny distinction could make a huge difference in the legal evidence at Trump's trials for election interference, said former federal prosecutor Elie Honig on Tuesday's edition of "CNN This Morning."

"Can we get at the commas for a moment?" asked anchor Poppy Harlow. "You read it, 'You know, I don't have the authority to change the outcome of the election on January 6th' or 'You know I don't have the authority.' I mean, that is a huge difference, is it not? What would it do for the prosecution? Pence is saying it's the latter."

"Commas matter," said Honig. "Every word matters. Every piece of punctuation matters. Think how that changes the meaning of this sentence. It's writing with a comma, which means 'you know' in the conversational sense. You know, sir, I don't think I have the authority to do that. Without the comma, which Pence says the comma shouldn't be there, you know, Donald Trump, you know that I don't think I have the authority to throw out the election. So that comma may seem trivial but makes a difference in the meaning of the sentence."

"Pence could take the stand when this goes to trial," said anchor Phil Mattingly. "If you're Trump's lawyers, how do you cross-examine and question Pence as a witness?"

"Yeah, I think there is a couple of things," said Honig. "First of all, Mike Pence wrote a book where he came out with some of the details, many details, but not all of them. I think the argument you will hear from Trump's lawyers is, anything he didn't put in the book is what we call a recent fabrication, something he made up after the fact. He has said that at times he believed there were irregularities in the voting, though ultimately he comes around to at view there was in evidence of fraud. I think he will press Mike Pence on the fact that Donald Trump was hearing different pieces of advice from different advisors, some seen as more responsible telling Trump there is no evidence of fraud, others say there was evidence of fraud and push ahead. Defense lawyers for Trump are going to focus on the latter part."

Watch the video below or at the link here.







https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pence-2666371464/

 

Exclusive: Liz Cheney’s new book blasts GOP as ‘enablers and collaborators’ of Trump, whom one member called ‘Orange Jesus’
Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN
Tue, November 28, 2023 at 4:27 PM MST·14 min read
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In her new book, former Rep. Liz Cheney paints a scathing portrait of the Republican Party, condemning her former colleagues and party leaders as “enablers and collaborators,” who after the 2020 election were “willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump.”

The book, “Oath and Honor,” which was obtained exclusively by CNN ahead of its Dec. 5 release, is an unflinching account of what Cheney calls the GOP’s “cowardice,” and how so many were willing to support former President Donald Trump, who she calls “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”

Cheney delivers a particularly devastating takedown of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who she says told her that Trump knew he’d lost the election. Cheney is also critical of McCarthy’s successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, who “appeared especially susceptible to flattery from Trump and aspired to being anywhere in Trump’s orbit,” she writes.

The book serves both as a roadmap laying out how Cheney realized in the days and weeks following the election the dangers of what Trump and his allies were trying to do to overturn the 2020 election, as well as a stark warning that she believes the checks and balances of the Constitution will not hold if Trump is reelected in 2024.

“As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term. But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our Constitution,” the Wyoming Republican writes.

Following Cheney’s prominent role as vice chair of the House’s January 6 committee, which uncovered critical new details about Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, her book is a first-hand account of what was going on behind the scenes — and she names names.


Liz Cheney's new book "Oath and Honor." - Little, Brown and Company
Drawing from real time text messages, emails, calls and meetings, as well as personal conversations, Cheney calls out her Republican colleagues as hypocrites – who knew Trump lost but did his bidding anyway – and says their complicity is a threat to democracy.

“So strong is the lure of power that men and women who had once seemed reasonable and responsible were suddenly willing to violate their oath to the Constitution out of political expediency and loyalty to Donald Trump,” Cheney writes.

Cheney has vowed to do whatever is necessary to stop Trump from returning to the White House, including leaving open the door to a 2024 presidential run herself. If Trump is the party’s nominee, Cheney has said she will leave the GOP.

Trump spokesman Stephen Cheung told CNN that Cheney’s book belonged “in the fiction section of the bookstore.”

“These are nothing more than completely fabricated stories,” he said.

‘The Orange Jesus’
Throughout “Oath and Honor,” Cheney describes how she saw her Republican colleagues go from condemning Trump to falling back in line and supporting his claims of election fraud.

Cheney reveals for the first time that McCarthy told her just two days after Election Day that he had talked to Trump and that Trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election.

“He knows it’s over,” McCarthy said, according to the book. “He needs to go through all the stages of grief.” Cheney writes that she thought to herself, those stages of grief “seemed to involve tweeting in all caps.”

When the California Republican went on Fox News that same day and said, “President Trump won this election,” Cheney writes, “McCarthy knew that what he was saying was not true.”

Cheney also exposes how other Republicans supported Trump’s election lies even when they knew better. During a GOP conference call, Cheney writes that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan was “dismissive” of the legal process for challenging the election results and “didn’t seem to think the rules mattered.”

“The only thing that matters is winning,” Jordan said, according to Cheney.

A spokesman for Jordan, Russell Dye, told CNN, “Chairman Jordan was always concerned about the legal process for the 2020 election and how states unconstitutionally changed their laws unilaterally.”

Cheney also calls out Johnson, whose rise to the speakership came after Cheney had finished her book. Cheney recounts how Johnson pressured Republican members to support an amicus brief to throw out the election results from four states Trump had lost.

“When I confronted him with the flaws in his legal arguments,” Cheney writes, “Johnson would often concede, or say something to the effect of, ‘We just need to do this one last thing for Trump.’”

On Jan. 6, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney describes a scene in the GOP cloakroom, where members were encouraged to sign their names on electoral vote objection sheets, lined up on a table, one for each of the states Republicans were contesting. Cheney writes most members knew “it was a farce” and “another public display of fealty to Donald Trump.”

“Among them was Republican Congressman Mark Green of Tennessee,” Cheney writes. “As he moved down the line, signing his name to the pieces of paper, Green said sheepishly to no one in particular, ‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus.’”

‘Trump’s not eating’
Cheney also accuses McCarthy of repeatedly lying and choosing the “craven” path of embracing Trump. She recounts the moment she first found out that McCarthy, fearing he had lost his ability to fundraise, secretly went to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago just three weeks after the Jan. 6 attack.


Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy are pictured on January 28, 2021 at Mar-a-Lago. - Save America PAC
At first, Cheney thought the photo of the two men smiling and shaking hands was fake. But she was incredulous at McCarthy’s defense of his visit. He claimed Trump’s staff summoned him.

“Mar-a-Lago? What the hell, Kevin?” Cheney asked.

“They’re really worried,” McCarthy said. “Trump’s not eating, so they asked me to come see him.”

“What? You went to Mar-a-Lago because Trump’s not eating?” Cheney responded.

“Yeah, he’s really depressed,” McCarthy said.

Cheney reveals that other Republicans were also “angry and disgusted” at McCarthy’s visit to Trump. She writes: “Some mocked him, circulating the Trump/McCarthy photo along with the clip from the movie Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise tells Renée Zellweger, ‘You.. complete… me.’”

In response to CNN’s request for comment, a spokesperson for McCarthy said, “For Cheney, first it was Trump Derangement Syndrome, and now apparently it’s also McCarthy Derangement Syndrome.”

‘You are in danger’
One of the most compelling parts of the book is Cheney’s account of the weeks leading up to the January 6 attack and growing fears that Trump was inciting his followers to violence.

Cheney discloses for the first time that on Jan. 4, she was accidentally included on a White House surrogate call. She was alarmed as she listened in as Trump’s allies detailed specific plans to try to overturn the election by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct or delay the counting of electoral votes.

Cheney says she left the Capitol that night with “a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach” not sure if Pence would “withstand the pressure” from Trump. “I didn’t know if we could count on him,” Cheney writes, and discloses that former House Speaker Paul Ryan also had doubts about Pence.

In a text message shortly after midnight on January 5, Ryan wrote to Cheney, “I worry he breaks but think he will not.”

The morning of Jan. 6, Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, called her after Trump said in his speech on the Ellipse that the crowd should get rid of “the Liz Cheneys of the world.”

“You are in danger,” he told her, cautioning her about speaking on the House floor that day.

Even though she was worried, Cheney writes nothing prepared her for the violence of the attack. As the rioters approached and the House went into lockdown, the Sergeant at Arms warned members they should be prepared to hide under their chairs if necessary.

“Jim Jordan approached me,” Cheney writes. “‘We need to get the ladies off the aisle,’ he said and put out his hand. ‘Let me help you.’”

“I swatted his hand away. ‘Get away from me. You f—ing did this,’” Cheney says she responded.

Jordan’s spokesman denied the incident occurred.


Supporters of President Donald Trump protest inside the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. - Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images/File
As she and her colleagues rushed out of the House chamber, Cheney writes that she immediately started to talk to then-Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries about the urgent need to impeach Trump.

On January 13, Cheney was one of only 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment. Although he never made a public statement about Trump’s impeachment, Cheney reveals that former President George W. Bush sent her a private message of support:

“Liz, Courage is in short supply these days. Thank you for yours. You showed strong leadership and I’m not surprised. Lead on. 43.”

It was often a lonely position. Cheney and her father were the only two Republicans who attended a ceremony marking the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hugged the former vice president when they arrived.

After sitting down, the two Cheneys noted the empty rows of seats on the Republican side of the chamber.

“It’s one thing to hear about what’s happening in our party, but to see it, like this, in such stark terms…” Cheney writes that her father said, his voice trailing off and shaking his head.

‘You’re killing me, Liz’
In the aftermath of Jan. 6, Cheney writes there were “a few days of clarity where most of the House Republican Conference was ready to either impeach or censure Donald Trump.”

It wouldn’t last, she notes ruefully.

She recounts how a GOP colleague, who she does not name, told her he knew what Trump had done was impeachable, but he was afraid that voting to impeach would put his wife and new baby in danger.

“I absolutely understood his fear,” Cheney writes. “But I also thought, ‘Perhaps you need to be in another job.’”

Quickly, Cheney’s vote to impeach Trump – and her blistering statement charging that he “lit the flame” of the attack on the Capitol – put a target on her back as the House GOP conference chair.

The morning of a February 2021 conference meeting, where the Freedom Caucus put forward a vote to oust Cheney, she describes a scene where GOP leaders pressured her to apologize for something – anything – to smooth things over.

“This was feeling more like middle school than the US Congress,” Cheney writes.

She refused to back down, and what followed was a four-hour meeting where colleagues attacked her for standing up to Trump. In one memorable exchange, Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania said to her, “It’s like you’re playing in the biggest game of your life and you look up and see your girlfriend sitting on the opponent’s side!”

The remark provoked a chorus of female members who yelled back, “She’s not your girlfriend!”

That day Cheney survived the vote, winning 142 to 56, but she writes the experience was best summed up by Rep. Mike Turner of Ohio who told her, “Well, I just got to spend four hours listening to a bunch of men tell a woman that she wasn’t taking their feelings into account.”

But Cheney’s days in GOP leadership were numbered.

“You’re killing me, Liz,” McCarthy said to her a few weeks later, after their final joint press conference, according to the book.


WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 27: At right, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) stands with House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as he speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol, on May 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. Calling it unconstitutional, Republican leaders have filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and congressional officials in an effort to block the House of Representatives from using a proxy voting system to allow for remote voting during the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) - Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Cheney, noting the portrait of former President Ronald Reagan on the wall, asked McCarthy how he thought Reagan, or former President George W. Bush or her father would have reacted to Trump on Jan. 6.

“This isn’t their party anymore,” McCarthy told her.

Afterward, Cheney writes: “The GOP was becoming an anti-Constitution party. And too many of our leaders were willing to accept that.”

In response to CNN’s request for comment, a spokesperson for McCarthy said, “”For Cheney, first it was Trump Derangement Syndrome, and now apparently it’s also McCarthy Derangement Syndrome” a McCarthy spokesperson told CNN.

McConnell: ‘I like where I am’
Cheney’s criticism of the Republican party extends to Senate Republicans and right-wing media personalities who she says also helped spread Trump’s lies.

The book includes new details about conversations between Cheney and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell. Cheney writes that at first, McConnell was “firm in his view that Trump should be impeached.”

“I like where I am,” McConnell told her, according to the book, following news reports that he was “contemplating” voting to convict Trump.

But by the time the Senate impeachment trial began in February 2021, “I was growing concerned that Mitch McConnell had lost his earlier resolve,” Cheney writes.

McConnell later changed course, apparently, Cheney writes, because he believed Trump would just fade away after 2020.

“Leader McConnell, who had made a career out of savvy political calculation and behind-the-scenes maneuvering, got this one wrong,” Cheney writes.

In the book, Cheney also condemns right-wing media for amplifying the disinformation coming from Trump and his allies. She notes that she urged Ryan, a member of the Fox Corp. board, to push for a show on Fox News debunking the election lies.

“Several months later, I heard the show had been in the final stages of production when it was shut down,” Cheney writes. “Someone at Fox had apparently decided not to finish it. The show never aired.”

Instead, she writes, Fox let then-host Tucker Carlson spread “intentional disinformation” about Jan. 6.

‘Visitor from another planet’
The book also includes new revelations about Cheney’s time as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee. After being ousted as GOP conference chair in May 2021, Cheney accepted an invitation from then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to join the committee.

Surrounded by Democrats at the panel’s first meeting, Cheney writes, “I couldn’t shake the feeling of being a visitor from another planet.”

Later, Cheney learned that Pelosi had dismissed her staff’s concerns about appointing the conservative Republican.

Cheney writes that Pelosi’s team “pulled together a list of the 10 worst things I had ever said about her. Speaker Pelosi took one look at the list, handed it back to her staffer, and asked: ‘Why are you wasting my time with things that don’t matter?’”

It was an unexpected alliance, but Cheney says Pelosi always backed her up, and in turn, she was immediately impressed by Pelosi’s leadership.

“We may have disagreed on pretty much everything else, but Nancy Pelosi and I saw eye to eye on the one thing that mattered more than any other: the defense of our Constitution and the preservation of our republic.”

‘Purely wishful thinking’
Cheney’s book ends with a chilling warning for 2024: that Donald Trump is dangerous for the future of the country.

“Trump has told us that he thinks the Constitution can and should be suspended when necessary, that what happened on Jan. 6 was justified, that in a second Trump presidency he would seek retribution,” Cheney writes. “The assumption that our institutions will protect themselves is purely wishful thinking by people who prefer to look the other way.”

Cheney extends her admonition to elected officials surrounding Trump and Republican Party leaders.

“We have also now learned that most Republicans currently in Congress will do what Donald Trump asks, no matter what it is,” Cheney writes. “I am very sad to say that America can no longer count on a body of elected Republicans to protect our republic.”

“Oath and Honor” ends with a call to action that Cheney asserts is more important than partisan politics.

“Every one of us – Republican, Democrat, Independent – must work and vote together to ensure that Donald Trump and those who have appeased, enabled, and collaborated with him are defeated.”

Cheney concludes: “This is the cause of our time.”

This story has been updated with additional details.

CNN’s Kristen Holmes, Annie Grayer and Oliver Darcy contributed to this report


https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-liz-cheney-book-blasts-221143621.html

 

Note to american hater.
You are the only person on the planet who gives a flying fuck about anything cheney has to say.

 

'There will be receipts': Giuliani associate Lev Parnas teases tell-all book

Sarah K. Burris
November 27, 2023 10:26PM ET



Igor Fruman, Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas (Twitter)


Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who funneled campaign money from foreigners to Donald Trump, according to a Justice Department indictment. But more than their scheme, their work with Giuliani as he worked to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release in June 2022, after pleading guilty. He did work with congressional committees when asked for information in 2020.

Posting on social media Monday, Parnas announced his upcoming tell-all book, "Shadow Diplomacy: Lev Parnas’ Wild Ride from Brooklyn to Donald Trump’s Inner Circle."

"The book’s timeline spans his involvement in critical diplomatic efforts, spanning from his conversation with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro alongside the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to his solo discussions with two Ukrainian presidents and his former political allegiance with an obscure Florida Congressman who later became the state’s controversial Governor because of their friendship," the Parnas site teases.

It goes on to say that his stories will shed light on the "intricate dance between political figures, governments, and behind-the-scenes operators, including the story behind the facts that led to ex-President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial."

Parnas claims that Biden's son, Hunter, was "set up" with the seat on the Burisma board.

"It remains true that there were meetings with Rudy in early 2019 discussing the Russians having Hunter Biden’s emails, months before the same material ended up on the Hunter Biden laptop in that Delaware repair shop," Parnas wrote in a 2022 thread. "It doesn’t take a PhD to ascertain what went on here. Parnas was later arrested and then the emails magically showed up at a blind computer repairman’s shop."



https://www.rawstory.com/lev-parnas-tell-all-book/

 

Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says
Mockery over ‘Two Corinthians’ slip and endorsement battles in 2016 echo in 2024 race as Republican contenders seek first win

Martin Pengelly in Washington
Donald Trump called evangelical supporters of his rival Ted Cruz “so-called Christians” and “real pieces of shit”, a new book says.



Prominent conservative lawyers band together to fight Trump threat


The news lands as the 2024 Republican primary heats up, two months out from the Iowa caucus and a day after Trump’s closest rival this time, the hard-right Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, was endorsed by Bob Vander Plaats, an influential evangelical leader in Iowa.

The new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by Tim Alberta, an influential reporter and staff writer for the Atlantic, will be published on 5 December. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Early in the book, Alberta describes fallout from an event at Liberty University, the evangelical college in Virginia, shortly before the Iowa vote in January 2016.

As candidates jockeyed for support from evangelicals, a powerful bloc in any Republican election, Trump was asked to name his favourite Bible verse.

Attempting to follow the advice of Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, the thrice-married, not noticeably church-going New York billionaire and reality TV star introduced it as “Two Corinthians”, rather than “Second Corinthians”, as would have been correct.

“The laughter and ridicule were embarrassing enough for Trump,” Alberta writes. “But the news of Perkins endorsing Ted Cruz, just a few days later, sent him into a spiral. He began to speculate that there was a conspiracy among powerful evangelicals to deny him the GOP nomination.

Iowa caucuses, Trump told one Iowa Republican official, ‘You know, these so-called Christians hanging around with Ted are some real pieces of shit.’”

Alberta adds that “in private over the coming years”, Trump “would use even more colourful language to describe the evangelical community”.

Cruz won Iowa but Trump took the second primary contest, in New Hampshire, and won the nomination with ease. After beating Hillary Clinton and spending four chaotic years in the White House, he was beaten by Joe Biden in 2020.

Pursuing the lie that his defeat was the result of electoral fraud, Trump refused to concede defeat. He has continued to dominate Republican politics, now as the clear frontrunner to be the nominee again.


Trump has maintained that status despite having been impeached twice (the second for inciting the deadly January 6 attack on Congress) and despite facing 91 criminal charges (34 for hush-money payments to a porn star) and civil threats including a case arising from a rape allegation a judge called “substantially true”.

Evangelicals remain the dominant bloc in Iowa, 55% of respondents to an NBC News/Des Moines Register poll in August identifying as “devoutly religious”. But despite his lengthy rap sheet, Trump’s hold on such voters appears to remain strong.


In October, the Register put him at 43% support overall in Iowa, with DeSantis and the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley 27 points behind. The same poll said 44% of evangelicals planned to make Trump their first choice, with DeSantis at 22% and Haley seven points back.



Evangelicals have also stayed with Trump nationwide. According to exit polls, in the 2020 presidential election he was supported by 76% of white evangelical voters.

DeSantis and Haley must attempt to catch Trump in Iowa. Vander Plaats’ endorsement was thus a sought-after prize, if one Trump did not pursue, declining to attend a Thanksgiving Family Forum Vander Plaats hosted in Des Moines last week.




On Monday, announcing his decision to endorse DeSantis, the president of the Family Leader, which seeks to “inspire the church to engage government for the advance of God’s kingdom and the strengthening of family”, pointed to the conclusion he hoped his followers would reach.

Speaking to Fox News, Vander Plaats said: “I don’t think America is going to elect [Trump] president again. I think America would be well served to have a choice, and I really believe Ron DeSantis should be that guy. And I think Iowa is tailor-made for him to win this.”

Trump’s rivals may yet take encouragement from Register polling, should evangelicals begin to doubt Trump. In the October poll, 76% of Iowa evangelicals said they had a positive view of DeSantis, while 62% said they liked Haley.


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/23/trump-iowa-evangelicals-pieces-of-shit-book-says

 

Really, American hater, don't fear religion or God.
Fear St. Peter.
He told Shooter, last time they played golf, that when you get to the pearly gates they'll be closed and a sign posted on them that says;

"You can't hate Heaven more than that"
With an arrow pointing down, just for you.

 

Bombshell Book Reveals Trump WH Plotted To Overturn Election in Jan 4 Conference Call — With Cheney On The Line

Tommy ChristopherNov 29th, 2023, 1:19 pm

Then-President Donald Trump “accidentally” included then-Rep. Liz Cheney on a White House conference call with Trump surrogates to plot overturning the 2020 election, according to Cheney’s upcoming book.

Cheney has been dropping bombs and nuggets via CNN’s exclusive first look at her forthcoming book Oath and Honor, with colorful details about the events surrounding the January 6 attack on the Capitol that Trump incited.

The details contained in the piece by CNN correspondents Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, and Elizabeth Stuart have made waves with on-air segments about Trump’s “Orange Jesus” nickname, Kevin McCarthy’s trip to Mar-a-Lago to comfort a supposedly fasting Trump, and more.


But one of the most intriguing revelations in the article barely earned a mention so far.

Gangel’s team exclusively obtained an advance copy of the book ahead of a Dec. 5 release, and among the revelations is significant information on a pair of phone calls to which Cheney was a firsthand witness.
The first mention is of a conference call with House Republicans in which Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) made a damning declaration:

During a GOP conference call, Cheney writes that House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan was “dismissive” of the legal process for challenging the election results and “didn’t seem to think the rules mattered.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/bombs...an-4-conference-call-with-cheney-on-the-line/

“The only thing that matters is winning,” Jordan said, according to Cheney.

Another call Cheney describes seems to have more potential:

One of the most compelling parts of the book is Cheney’s account of the weeks leading up to the January 6 attack and growing fears that Trump was inciting his followers to violence.

Cheney discloses for the first time that on Jan. 4, she was accidentally included on a White House surrogate call. She was alarmed as she listened in as Trump’s allies detailed specific plans to try to overturn the election by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct or delay the counting of electoral votes.

It’s not clear what documentation Cheney has for the call, or whether the book itself contains more quotes from the call, but even that tease is major.


Gangel gave that passage only a brief mention in an appearance on Tuesday’s edition of The Lead, as she described the book to host Jake Tapper:

Watch above via CNN’s The Lead.

 

More proof that Fox News is not a news organization. They are the PR firm for the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican party.


Fox News host made desperate plea for Liz Cheney to 'bury the hatchet' with Trump: book

Brad Reed
November 30, 2023 1:33PM ET



Donald Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney (R- WY) -- Photos by Saul Loeb and Andrew Harnik for AFP)


Weeks after former President Donald Trump was linked to a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building in a desperate bid by his supporters to overturn the election result, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) showed no signs of letting the matter drop.

In fact, the New York Times reports that Cheney writes in her upcoming book that many of her Republican colleagues were disturbed by her unwillingness to let bygones be bygones as rioters sent them fleeing for their lives on January 6th, 2021.

In one instance, Cheney claims that Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called her to try to set up a meeting between her and the former president.

“No thanks,” Cheney replied. “Not interested," she wrote in her upcoming book, Oath and Honor.

ALSO READ: A convicted January 6 attacker faces prison. So he went to Mar-a-Lago to see Trump first.

Kilmeade wouldn't let it drop, however, and insisted that she and Trump needed to "bury the hatchet" for the good of the party, writes the Times.

“Trump tried to overturn an election,” Cheney replied. “He went to war with the rule of law. He violated his oath to the Constitution.”

"I know," Kilmeade acknowledged, according to her recollection. "But what if he is our only hope to beat Kamala?"

Cheney would go on to serve as co-chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol and she would vote to recommend criminal charges be leveled against the former president. She was also removed from the Wyoming GOP.



https://www.rawstory.com/liz-cheney-trump-2666406015/

 

'Orange Jesus' and a note from George W. Bush: 5 takeaways from Republican Liz Cheney's book
Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
Tue, December 5, 2023 at 3:23 AM MST·5 min read
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is one of former President Donald Trump’s most vocal critics. But she has few kind words for other prominent Republicans in her new book.

Cheney was a major figure in the GOP during her three terms in the House, serving as chair of the House Republican Conference for two years. She also served as the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 Committee, which investigated the Capitol attack at the end of Trump’s term in the White House.

In her book “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” released Tuesday, Cheney criticizes Trump and targets House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and other Republicans who have stood by the former president.

However, excerpts from her book obtained by multiple outlets show she also received some praise from both Democrats and Republicans.

Here are 5 top takeaways from Cheney’s memoir.

Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump and the 2020 election
Cheney said she was in touch with McCarthy in the days after the 2020 race for the White House, according to a copy of her book obtained by CNN. The then-Wyoming lawmaker claimed that McCarthy said Trump acknowledged he lost the election to now-President Joe Biden.

Publicly, the former president has falsely claimed that the election was stolen from him.

“He knows it’s over,” McCarthy said, according to a section of the book from by CNN. “He needs to go through all the stages of grief.”

Cheney also criticized McCarthy in her book for visiting Trump at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The former House speaker told Cheney after she questioned him about the trip that Trump’s aides were “really worried” about him, and Trump wasn’t eating at the time, according to CNN.

Trump in a Monday post on his platform Truth Social denied Cheney’s claims.

‘We just need to do this one last thing for Trump’
Cheney in her book also took aim at other Republican lawmakers for their response to the 2020 election, including their questioning of the legitimacy of the race.

Cheney claimed House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, at the time dismissed legal proceedings surrounding the election, alleging that he “didn’t seem to think the rules mattered,” CNN reported. Cheney alleged the Ohio Republican also believed “The only thing that matters is winning.”

Russell Dye, a spokesperson for Jordan, told the outlet he was “always concerned about the legal process for the 2020 election.”

Cheney in the book also knocked Johnson, who did not vote to certify the results of the 2020 election.

“When I confronted him with the flaws in his legal arguments,” Cheney wrote, “Johnson would often concede, or say something to the effect of, ‘We just need to do this one last thing for Trump.’”

The former Wyoming lawmaker also said, as Republican lawmakers were encouraged to sign their names to electoral vote objection sheets, Tennessee GOP Rep. Mark Green said, “‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus,” in an apparent reference to Trump. Green’s office denied to CNN that he made the comment.

'Defend the Republic'
In an excerpt from Cheney’s book obtained by Axios, the former lawmaker described visiting her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, on New Year’s Day in 2021. As she left her parents’ home, her father told her “Defend the Republic, daughter.”

Dick Cheney has often been critical of the former president. Last year, he called Trump a threat to the nation’s future.

“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump," the former vice president said in an ad for Liz Cheney.

He also called Trump “a coward” in the ad, saying "a real man wouldn't lie to his supporters."

George W. Bush lauded Cheney for impeachment vote
Cheney in January 2021 was one of just a handful Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. Cheney in her book revealed that former President George W. Bush sent her a private message after her vote, according to CNN.

“Liz, Courage is in short supply these days. Thank you for yours. You showed strong leadership and I’m not surprised. Lead on. 43," Bush wrote, Cheney said.

While Bush, whose vice president was Dick Cheney, has been hesitant to criticize Trump in public, he did donate to Cheney and Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s reelection campaigns in 2021. Murkowski also voted to remove Trump from office after the Capitol insurrection.

Cheney lost her House seat to Harriet Hageman, a Republican endorsed by Trump.

An unexpected alliance with Nancy Pelosi
Cheney and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., don’t have much in common on paper, but the two leaders formed a bond near the end of Trump’s term in office, Cheney wrote in her book, according to a copy obtained by The New York Times.

Pelosi named Cheney to the special committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack. But the former lawmaker said she learned later that Pelosi’s staff had compiled a list of harsh comments Cheney previously made about the California Democrat.

Pelosi, in response, told her staff “Why are you wasting my time with things that don’t matter?” Cheney wrote, according to the Times.

“We may have disagreed on pretty much everything else,” Cheney wrote, the outlet reported, “but Nancy Pelosi and I saw eye to eye on one thing that mattered more than any other: the defense of our Constitution and the preservation of our republic.”


https://www.yahoo.com/news/orange-jesus-note-george-w-102313391.html

 

Well, we just can't help ourselves.
This is too good to pass up.

Know who is publishing Cheney's "blockbuster tell all book"?
Little Brown and company.
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY TO PUBLISHOATH AND HONOR: A Memoir and a Warning, by Liz Cheney | Hachette Book Group

"Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world."
​

Cheney's book is slated to sell for $32.50 and is timed to be released just before the state caucus season. Cheney was rumored to be considering a third party run for President, but those plans appear to have been sidelined by her appointment as professor at the University of Virginia. Another lucrative deal.

Now we couldn't find how much Liz was given for the advance payment, but rumors are she pocketed around $10 MILLION for it.
Hope the publisher can make their money back. Fiction doesn't very often pay well for the publisher.

 

We will have to put a marker on Liz Cheney's book sales because it looks like its going to be a work of nonfiction of lasting significance.

And lots of people are interested in what Cheney has to say

Rachel Maddow’s Interview With Liz Cheney Leads Cable News With 3.2 Million Viewers
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjo...news-with-32-million-viewers/?sh=3471eb801773

Because of things like this ad many many more.



Liz Cheney launches blistering attack on Jared Kushner in new book

Sarah K. Burris
December 5, 2023 1:32PM ET



Jared Kushner (Nicholas Kamm : AFP)


Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) writes in her new book that her impression of "wunderkind" Jared Kushner was that his self-aggrandizing arrogance didn't match reality.

After Donald Trump left the White House and Cheney and other lawmakers began the House Select Committee investigating the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, Kushner was among those called to testify.

In her new book, "Oath and Honor," Cheney begins with former Attorney General Bill Barr's testimony to the committee.

"Meadows had caught up with me and… said, 'Look, I think that [Trump is] becoming more realistic and knows there’s a limit to how far he can take this.' And then Jared said, you know, 'Yeah, we’re working on this — we’re working on it,'" Barr recalled to the committee.

Barr was concerned, she said, and Kushner's comments suggested he was pressing Trump in the right direction.

"Other testimony indicated that Kushner was also assisting Trump’s very successful efforts to spread to the public what virtually everyone in the White House knew to be election lies," Cheney writes.

"When we asked Jared if he had played any role in organizing Trump’s advertising campaign to disseminate the election lies, he said, 'Yeah, I was a creative director — so that’s a fair assumption.' I wanted to know why Jared had not done more to stop January 6."

She recalled Kushner using a quote that he'd recited many times before.

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Jared said, “I forget the journalist, but she said that the media took Trump literally but not seriously, and the voters took him seriously but not literally.”

Cheney said she got the impression that, "Jared thought this was clever. But the problem with Jared’s quote is this: Tens of millions of American voters actually took Trump’s election-fraud allegations literally. They did not see the allegations as some kind of clever parody. And hundreds of Trump supporters have now pled to or been convicted of criminal acts, sacrificing their freedom to achieve what they believed Donald Trump asked them to do. People died and scores of police officers were seriously injured."

But one thing struck Cheney with Kushner's comments — he was implying Trump knew exactly what he was doing.

"Jared’s 'clever' quote implies that Trump was knowingly playing a cynical game the entire time, intentionally misrepresenting the facts for his own purposes," writes Cheney. "Of course, there is already substantial additional evidence that Trump was acting intentionally, making false statements to motivate his supporters and, of course, to raise money from them."

You can read more coverage from Cheney's book at Raw Story here.



https://www.rawstory.com/jared-kushner-self-aggrandizing/

 

No one cares what Liz has to say except despicables seeking to use her for propaganda.

Like most politicians she sold out for money.