'What’s the harm?' Cheney says Trump aide dismissed concerns as election challenge planned

Sarah K. Burris
December 5, 2023 3:06PM ET



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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed on Monday evening that she secretly listened in on a campaign call by Donald Trump's team on coordinating Jan. 6.

She shared the details in her book,"Oath and Honor."

Jenna Ellis began explaining how the objections to the election result would unfold in the joint session of Congress.

She said that Pence could ask: “Which of these two slates have been certified as correct?” Then, she explained, that Pence could refuse any votes for those states.

"This would, of course, have thrown our nation into turmoil," Cheney writes. "Then Jenna explained that some Republican members of Congress were already aware of these plans.

"She was saying out loud that this was a plan to obstruct or delay the lawful counting of electoral votes. And that some members of Congress were in on it."

ALSO READ: Why Donald Trump should absolutely fear the 14th Amendment

Ellis then turned the call over to Jason Miller, a long-time Trump ally who created a social media network for conservatives.

"Miller described what he called 'an uptick in activity' in calls from state legislatures to 'address concerns,'" writes Cheney. "That was not even remotely true. The Trump campaign had been trying for weeks to coax state legislatures to change their votes. It was already well publicized that not a single one had done so.

"Jason Miller said that Republican objectors would be 'calling out details of fraud and irregularities' and 'working to overturn election results,'" Cheney recalls. "Yet Miller knew then, as he was saying these things, that the campaign had no genuine evidence to prove the election had been stolen. Indeed, Miller was scrambling at the time to try to find any basis to support the Republican objections.

Pausing, Miller said, “What’s the harm? What are the Democrats so afraid of?”

Cheney unleashes.

"The harm? How about the shattering chaos that would ensue if the vice president refused to count certified electoral votes? We would be in completely uncharted territory."



https://www.rawstory.com/jason-miller-liz-cheney/

 

Cheney’s memoir tops charts, quickly sells out on Amazon
by Sarah Fortinsky - 12/05/23 5:19 PM ET

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Former Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) highly anticipated memoir officially launched Tuesday and soared to the top of bestseller lists.

By midday Tuesday, Amazon marked it as “temporarily out of stock,” though it was still accepting orders.


The book clinched the No. 1 spot on the overall bestseller list of books on Amazon and topped three other categories on Amazon: Memoirs, Political Leader Biographies, Women in History.

Cheney has been on a media tour for her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” which warns of the danger to democracy that a second term with former President Trump in the White House would bring. Trump is the leading GOP candidate for president in 2024.

The book also details the state of the Republican Party — especially in the lead up to the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the party’s subsequent response.

In an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on “Today” earlier this week, Cheney discussed the book, pledging to “do whatever it takes to make sure that Donald Trump is defeated in 2024,” not ruling out a potential third-party bid.

“He’s already attempted to seize power, and he was stopped, thankfully, and for the good of the nation and the republic,” she told Guthrie about Trump. “But he said he will do it again. He’s expressed no remorse for what he did.”

Cheney, a longtime conservative lawmaker who lost her reelection primary bid in 2022, added that there is “a very, very real threat and concern” that Trump would make himself a dictator if he wins the White House.


“I don’t say any of that lightly,” she said. “And frankly, it’s painful for me as someone who you know has spent their whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as Republican, to watch what’s happening to my party, and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has, you know, basically determined that that the only thing that matters is him his power, his success.”

The book also provides new details about Trump’s response to the Capitol riot. She recalled then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) telling her that he went to Mar-a-Lago after the attack because Trump was depressed and not eating.

Trump fought back against these allegations, in recent social media posts, saying he was not depressed, but angry, and that he, in fact, was eating a lot after the Capitol riot.


In a statement to The Hill, a spokesperson for the book’s publisher, Little, Brown and Company (LBC), praised the book’s initial success, writing, “Cheney’s book has generated historic demand



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4343850-cheney-memoir-tops-charts-sells-out-amazon/

 

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Must Watch TV: Liz Cheney to Appear on Fox News After Slamming Network on CNN

Colby HallDec 8th, 2023, 11:05 am
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Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney was once a paid contributor for Fox News. But in her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, she is unsparing in her criticism of the network and the role she believes it played in enabling former President Donald Trump’s false election claims and the January 6 riot.

Like every writer of a political memoirs, she has appeared on the cable news networks in the service of book sales, with one notable exception: Fox News.

In Thursday’s Reliable Sources newsletter, CNN’s Oliver Darcy asked rhetorically, “Will Cheney appear on Fox News during her book tour? As she noted, she was once a paid contributor at the network. But now she is, effectively, persona non grata.”


But Mediaite has learned that Cheney will be appearing on Fox, for an interview with Bret Baier on Special Report later this month.


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An interview between Cheney and Baier will be a notable one. During a Thursday appearance on The Lead With Jake Tapper, Cheney responded to Baier, who has dismissed concerns that Trump would refuse to leave the White House if re-elected. Cheney told Jake Tapper:

Well, I would say first in response to Bret, he already tried to seize power once. So, you know, it shouldn’t be hard for anybody to imagine that he will do it again. And that’s exactly what he was doing on January 6, and no president has ever done that before. With respect to sort of the mechanics of how he would do this, Donald Trump will refuse to obey the rulings of the courts, he’s already made clear that he will not abide by the rulings of the courts. And if you think about that, in the context of elections, you know, he can — and he’s also, frankly, already suggested postponing elections.

She also went after Fox News, lamenting the loss of Charles Krauthammer before saying “there’s no question” that Fox News “played a damaging and dangerous role” in spreading disinformation about the January 6 attack on the Capitol and not debunking election lies, particularly by Trump.

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Now, Cheney will be appearing on Fox. She was booked earlier this week to appear on the December 18 edition of Special Report.

Liz Cheney was long a ubiquitous presence on Fox News. Still, since her lead role in the House Select Committee that investigated Trump’s role in fake electors and Jan 6, her appearances on the network have effectively zeroed out.

Her December 18 appearance will almost certainly be must-watch TV.


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/must-wa...ar-on-fox-news-after-slamming-network-on-cnn/

 

Mention ‘Liz Cheney 2024’ and things get very, very awkward on Capitol Hill

Matt Laslo
December 8, 2023 7:07AM ET



Then-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chairwoman of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, speaks during a Constitution Day lecture at American Enterprise Institute on September 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. Cheney spoke on a variety of topics, including the threat former President Donald Trump poses to the Republican Party and American democracy. Drew Angerer/Getty Images


WASHINGTON – Liz Cheney may be flirting with a 2024 presidential run, but – at least on Capitol Hill – it doesn’t seem anyone wants to take her to the dance.

The former co-chair of the Select January 6 Committee, Cheney – who represented Wyoming for three terms in Congress while also serving as a House Republican leader – continues making waves on cable news as she promotes her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, especially when she has left the door open for a third-party run in some of her media hits.

“I think that the situation that we’re in is so grave, and the politics of the moment require independents and Republicans and Democrats coming together in a way that can help form a new coalition, so that may well be a third-party option,” Cheney told USA TODAY.

When Cheney’s book tour takes her to Washington, D.C., next week, she’ll be in the running for the loneliest women in Washington these days. And everyone in Washington is lonely.

The mini-dynasty of the Cheneys — Dick and Liz — may be over. At least within the Republican Party – the very party the Cheneys re-created in their own neoconservative image in the past two bomb- and Saddam-laden decades.

“Cheney 2024?” Raw Story asked several prominent members of Congress.

“I don't have particular views on the Democratic primary,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) dismissively quipped to Raw Story.

“I think RFK Jr. is a more interesting third-party candidate,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Raw Story.

“I think it’s a great idea,” Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) told Raw Story through a laugh.

Even among Wyoming politicians, any historic Cheney love now seems lost.

“I’ve got to give a speech right now,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) told Raw Story as he walked to the Senate floor for a perfunctory immigration speech Wednesday.

It’s not just Republicans.

“Oh my gosh, it's the least – look, I have a lot of respect for Liz Cheney – I’m not thinking about presidential politics right now. I've got too much on my mind … that we’ve got to get done,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told Raw Story Wednesday. “So I think I'll just leave it at that.”

As Cheney has maneuvered the awkward anti-Donald Trump tightrope — seeming to throw water on a third-party run, even while stoking third-party presidential chatter — Cheney’s got a cheering squad behind her. And not just the MSNBC and CNN punditry.

Democrats have learned to love this new Liz Cheney – even as just a few years ago, most Democrats decried her and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for their expansionist and militaristic view of U.S. foreign policy.

The attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 changed everything in Washington, it seems.

“There's a different priority now,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) told Raw Story. “She embodies a commitment to the most important priority and that's protecting our democracy.”

“Even if that means torturing other people abroad?” Raw Story pressed.

“Well, no.”

“That's what her and her dad advocated for over the years.”

“That's correct,” Welch said. “She has foreign policy things I disagree with. She has tax policy, economic policies I disagree with, but there's nobody I respect or admire more for standing up to Trump at great personal peril – she was headed to becoming speaker and she stood on principle rather than clinging on to ambition.”

A former Fox News commentator and mother of five, Liz Cheney was recently seen as a political titan among elected officials. Because she was one.

Her father, the former vice president, represented Wyoming in Congress for a decade (1979-1989), which turned “Cheney” into a household name across the sprawling western state before it became nationally known. He then served as secretary of Defense during the first Gulf War — a nightly presence on the evening news.

The name recognition helped, as Liz Cheney was promoted to the No. 3 House Republican in her second term before winning 69 percent of the vote in her third and final victorious House race in 2020.

“That’s amazing,” then-Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) – now the secretary of Housing and Urban Development – told me at the time. “I don’t even know what to say — I’m speechless that somebody that has that kind of belief system is a leader in anybody’s caucus.”

The Cheneys’ Republican honeymoon proved a blip, though.

In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Liz Cheney voted to impeach Trump, which was seen as a betrayal by Trump, other party leaders and many rank-and-file Republicans. That impeachment vote set the dominos in motion, including her getting booted from the House GOP leadership team later that summer. Name I.D. flipped — Democrats now use “Cheney” and “patriot” in the same sentence, tortured record and all — even as her political career, at least temporarily, flopped.

Crossing Trump also led to Liz Cheney’s censure at the hand of her fellow Wyoming Republicans before the state party made it final and voted to boot her from the party that fall. She lost in a Republican primary and exited Congress in January.

“She's just not representative of the views of people in my state, and she's not representative of my views either,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told Raw Story. “I'm a constitutional conservative and she's more of a neoconservative, and we're just not on the same page.”

Lummis is quick to point out that Trump is no constitutional conservative either, though, like most of today’s elected Republicans, she says that doesn’t matter.

“Oddly, Trump is really kind of a populist. He's not really, you know, a constitutional conservative either, but I just feel the policies when he was president felt good on the ground – to people on the ground. And I was one of those people. When he was president, I wasn't here,” Lummis said. “So it just felt good on the ground.”

One thing on which there’s no disagreement in Washington is that a GOP civil war is raging. What the party will look like on the other end remains, mostly, unclear to Lummis. Though she knows it doesn’t look like Dick and Liz Cheney.

“Honestly, as the Republican Party transitions to wherever it's going – and I don't know where it's going – it is certainly transitioning away from, the sort of, Cheney era,” Lummis said.

Cheney’s publicist and former congressional staffers did not respond to requests for comment.

That may be because they know what Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) predicts: A credible third-party run – whether Cheney or someone else – won’t reorder America’s two-party system anytime soon. For more than a century – come Teddy Roosevelt, George Wallace, John Anderson, H. Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, Gary Johnson and Kanye West – no minor-party or independent presidential candidate has done anything more than play the role of spoiler.

“I think it's awfully hard,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told Raw Story “If you look at it, it's going to be Biden and Trump. So I don't know.”

So while Cheney 2024 is stillborn in the eyes of politicians who know her, some — particularly Democrats — still offer her respect, if not their support.

“Her goal is obviously to stop Trump. Well, I share that,” Welch said. “I'm a Biden supporter, so I'm not sure it's wise for her to run because that may help Trump. I don't know. But just, as a political figure, she is extraordinary.”


https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/liz-cheney-president-2024/

 

Liz Cheney was 'amused' when she was disinvited from the 2020 White House holiday party after demanding Trump provide evidence of his election claims
John L. Dorman
Sat, December 9, 2023 at 1:30 PM MST·2 min read
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Days after the 2020 election, then-Rep. Liz Cheney had grown increasingly concerned by then-President Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud and his rejection of the results in myriad swing states.

Her concerns reached the point where she issued a statement later that November, calling on the then-president to provide any evidence of election malfeasance and if he wasn't able to do that, to respect the integrity of the American electoral system.

And according to Cheney's new book, "Oath and Honor," she was bumped off the invite list for the White House holiday party after releasing her statement. But she wrote that she hadn't planned on going to the high-profile soiree anyway.

"A few days after I issued my November 20 statement calling on Trump to produce evidence of fraud and respect the sanctity of our elections, my chief of staff, Kara Ahern, got a call from a staffer in the White House," she wrote. "He informed her that I was off the guest list for the White House congressional holiday party."

"Invites to these parties are highly coveted by most members of Congress, but I hadn't gone during any of the previous years I'd been in Congress, and I hadn't planned to attend this one," she continued. "I was amused that whoever gave the instruction to disinvite me thought I'd view it as a punishment."

Cheney, who at the time was the chair of the House Republican Conference, had begun to inform some of her most ardent pro-Trump constituents in Wyoming that the then-president's election claims were not grounded in concrete proof and that Joe Biden had won the presidency.

But her warnings about Trump as an active lawmaker peaked in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. After voting to impeach Trump for incitement of insurrection for his role on January 6, 2021, she remained his most forceful critic in GOP leadership and was eventually removed from her leadership role by the larger conference that year.

She later served on the House January 6 committee as its vice chair and continues to warn against Trump's renomination as the GOP standard-bearer in 2024, arguing that he would not uphold democratic principles or leave office after a second term if he were to return to the White House.

Business Insider reached out to a Trump spokesperson for comment.

Read the original article on Business Insider


https://www.yahoo.com/news/liz-cheney-amused-she-disinvited-203052131.html

 

Oath and Honor review: Liz Cheney spells out the threat from Trump
Lloyd Green
Sun, December 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM MST·5 min read
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Donald Trump stands ready to knife US democracy. A year ago, he called for terminating the constitution. He has since announced that if re-elected, he wants to weaponize federal law enforcement against his political enemies. He has suggested that Gen Mark Milley, former chairman of the joint chiefs, be executed for fulfilling his duty.

Related: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory review: Trump and his evangelical believers

This is a man who reportedly kept a bound copy of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside, very nearly managed to overturn an election, and certainly basked in the mayhem of the January 6 insurrection. He said Mike Pence, his vice-president who ultimately stood against him, “deserved” to be hanged for so doing.


This week, Trump said he would be a dictator “on day one” of a second term. All bets are off. Take him literally and seriously.

The New York Times and the Atlantic report that Trump aims to make the executive branch his fiefdom, loyalty the primary if not only test. If he returns to power, the independence of the justice department and FBI will be things of the past. He is the “most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office”, Liz Cheney writes in her memoir.

“This is the story of when American democracy began to unravel,” the former congresswoman adds. “It is the story of the men and women who fought to save it, and of the enablers and collaborators whose actions ensured the threat would grow and metastasize.”

Cheney, formerly the No 3 House Republican, was vice-chair of the House January 6 committee. She has witnessed power wielded – not always wisely. Dick Cheney, her father, was George W Bush’s vice-president and pushed the Iraq war. Before that he was secretary of defense to Bush’s father and, like his daughter, represented Wyoming in the House.

Liz Cheney delivers a frightening narrative. Her recollections are first-hand, her prose dry, terse and informed. On January 6, she witnessed Trump’s minions invade the Capitol first-hand.

Subtitled “A Memoir and a Warning Oath”, her book is well-timed. The presidential primaries draw near. The Iowa caucus is next month. Trump laps the Republican pack. No one comes close. Ron DeSantis is in retrograde, his campaign encased in a dunghill of its own making. Nikki Haley has momentum of a sort but remains a long way behind.

Cheney’s book will discomfit many. Mike Johnson, the new House speaker, is shown as a needy and servile fraud. Kevin McCarthy, his predecessor, is a bottomless pit of self-abasement. Jim Jordan, the hard-right judiciary chair from Ohio, is ham-handed and insincere.

Johnson misled colleagues about the authorship of a legal brief filed in support of Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, as well as its contents and his own credentials. He played a game of “bait and switch”, Cheney says. Johnson, she writes, was neither the author of the brief nor a “constitutional law expert”, despite advising colleagues that he was.

In reality, Johnson was dean of Judge Paul Pressler School of Law, a small Baptist institution that never opened its doors. Constitutional scholar? Nope. Pro-Trump lawyers wrote the pro-Trump brief, not Johnson, Cheney says.

At a recent gathering of Christian legislators, Johnson referred to himself as a modern-day Moses.

McCarthy, meanwhile, is vividly portrayed in all his gutless glory. First taking a pass on Johnson’s amicus brief, he then predictably caved. Anything to sit at the cool kids’ table. His tenure as speaker, which followed, will be remembered for its brevity and desperation. His trip to see Trump in Florida, shortly after the election, left Cheney incredulous.

“Mar-a-Lago? What the hell, Kevin?”

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

Trump not eating. Let that claim sink in.

This year, at his arraignment in Fulton county, Georgia, on charges relating to election subversion there, the former president self-reported as 6ft 3in and 215lb – almost 30lb lighter than at his last White House physical.

OK.

Turning to Jordan, Cheney recalls his performance on January 6. She rightly feared for her safety and remains unamused.

“Jim Jordan approached me,” she recalls.

“‘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 fucking did this.’”

Jordan’s spokesperson denies the incident.

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

Mitt Romney has announced his retirement as a senator from Utah. Patrick McHenry, the former acting House speaker from North Carolina, has also decided to quit. Both men voted to certify Joe Biden’s win in 2020. In a Trump-centric Republican party, that is a big problem. In plain English, Congress is a hellscape. The cold civil war grows hot.

Related: ‘Bait and switch’: Liz Cheney book tears into Mike Johnson over pro-Trump January 6 brief

Cheney briefly mentions Kash Patel, a former staffer to Devin Nunes, a congressman now in charge of Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform. In the waning days of the Trump administration, Patel was chief of staff at the Pentagon. In a recent interview with Steve Bannon, Patel made clear that in a second Trump term, bureaucrats and the press will be targets.

“We will find the conspirators in government … and the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we are going to come after the people in the media … we are putting you all on notice.”

Trump is a would-be Commodus, a debauched emperor, enamored with power, grievance and his own reflection. Gladiator, Ridley Scott’s Oscar-winning epic, remains a movie for our times.

“As a nation, we can endure damaging policies for a four-year term,” Cheney writes. “But we cannot survive a president willing to terminate our constitution.” Promoting her book, she added that the US is “sleepwalking into dictatorship”.

Trump leads Biden in the polls.


https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/oath-honor-review-liz-cheney-070043787.html

 

This is an example of just how brilliant Liz Cheney is being in her interviews. But I have to also give Stephen Colbert a ton of credit because he's the only one I have seen calling out the fact that conservative/Republicans have been on a fascist march for decades. Including her war criminal father. Which of course Cheney is not going to admit. But her response is brilliant nonetheless. I am a little embarrassed by just how much I underestimated Cheney's intelligence.



Cheney and Colbert Battle Over Trump: ‘You and I Are Just Not Going to Agree’

Jamie FreveleDec 12th, 2023, 11:23 am





The book tour of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) continued Monday night when she stopped by CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and sat for three lively segments with the host that, at some points, got a little fiery.

After opening his show regaling his harrowing recovery from a ruptured appendix, host Stephen Colbert welcomed Cheney to the show, both acknowledging how “weird” it was to be seated across from someone with whom they had various political disagreements. But those disagreements soon, um, ruptured when Colbert asked Cheney about the Republican party’s role in the rise of former President Donald Trump, whom Cheney agreed was “using a fascist playbook.”

Colbert’s argument was that both the left and the right had ample opportunity to creep towards fascism in the United States. His question to Cheney was how the Republicans got there first. Cheney took umbrage at that.

Colbert: Why do you think, though, for the first time in our nation’s history, the Republican Party won that race and got the first fascist dictator who could possibly take office? I’m just curious if you’ve done any self-examination of your party’s leadership over the last 20 years as to why he is not an aberration, but rather an avatar.

Cheney: I think he’s an aberration. I think–

Colbert: Really?

Cheney: Yeah, I mean, look, I think what Donald Trump has done is, first of all, he he tapped into a sense among a lot of people in this country that their voice isn’t heard. But he then lied to them and he preyed on their patriotism and told them, “You know what? I’ll speak for you.”

Colbert: But very specifically through things like racism, like “Mexicans are rapists, they’re killers. They’re here to get us.” Like, that’s a very racist ideology.

Cheney: Absolutely.

Colbert: Undermining of the media. That’s a very fascist thing to do.

Cheney: Look, there’s no question that he’s using a fascist playbook.

Colbert: Right.

Cheney: But it’s also true right now, if you want to talk about, you know, for example, the disgusting anti-Semitism that is on the rise across this country. The left has a huge problem with anti-Semitism. And what we’re seeing on our university campuses, for example, and the unwillingness to stand against it.

Colbert: I would agree that anti-Semitism is a disease that runs across all cultural boundaries, not only the United States, but across the world. What I mean by, say, undermining the media is… undercutting, sort of like roughing up the referee was a project of the right for the last 20 years or undermining public institutions.

You say that people believe that our public institutions can take the punishment that Trump will give them, and that’s why he’s not as dangerous as he should be. But, I mean, the Republican Party’s mantra has been “the government is the problem” for so many years.

Cheney: Yeah, but see, this is it’s really important in my view that we not sort of slide into saying everything the Republicans have ever done, you know, is somehow the same as what Donald Trump is doing.

Colbert: I’m not saying everything. I’m saying those are breadcrumbs.

Cheney: Yeah, but I think… You and I are just not going to agree on that. I mean, I think it’s–

Colbert: I know we’re not going to agree, but do you understand why I’m asking that question?

Cheney: Yeah, but I think you should let me answer it.

With that, they both smiled and shook hands, and Cheney answered:
Now, look, I think that when I stood in front of my colleagues, for example, when they kicked me out of leadership, I said to them, you know, we cannot become the party of anti-Semitism and white supremacy and racism and bigotry. And if you look at the people and the symbolism that the people had who invaded the Capitol on January 6th, they had neo-Nazi insignia. The Confederate flag flew for the first time inside the Capitol on that day.

And the Republican Party, maybe what we should say is we can debate about how we got to this point. I think the Republican Party has, people who have been in the party, have a particular duty to stand against where we are today. And I also think we all have to recognize he’s using a fascist playbook. I mean, I don’t disagree with what you’re saying. He’s taking the same steps that we have seen people all around the world take in the past.

And the challenge for us as Americans is not to say to ourselves, “Well, that can never happen here. The people who are claiming that he is, you know, going to unravel the Constitution if he’s elected again are catastrophizing.” We can’t we can’t go down that path. We have to understand this is a very real threat, and there’ll be a lot of time for us to debate how we got to this place. But right now, we have to stand together as Americans to stop him. That’s the most important thing.

Watch the video above via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on YouTube.


https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cheney-...-trump-you-and-i-are-just-not-going-to-agree/

 

McCarthy told Trump that Jan. 6 rioters were ‘trying to f—— kill me’: book
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...an-6-rioters-were-trying-to-ing-kill-me-book/






Cheney calls McCarthy ‘sad’ and ‘pathetic’ for saying he’d serve in Trump administration
Nick Robertson
Tue, December 12, 2023 at 6:09 AM MST·2 min read
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Monday, calling the former Speaker “sad” and “pathetic” for saying he’d be willing to serve in a second Trump administration.

Her criticism follows McCarthy’s claim Sunday that he’d take a role “in the right position” and “if I’m the best person for the job.” The California Republican has announced he will resign at the end of the month.

Cheney was surprised and confused at his remarks.


“I can’t explain it,” she said in an interview with MSNBC. “It’s pathetic. There’s sort of an element of — it doesn’t really matter what Donald Trump has done to the country, what Donald Trump has done to the Congress, Donald Trump has done to Kevin McCarthy…”

“To him!” host Jen Psaki interjected.

“Yeah, it’s just kind of, you know, going back for more,” Cheney replied to the former White House press secretary.

She continued: “I think it’s sad, but I also think history’s going to show that Kevin’s unwillingness to do the right thing, and you know, sort of each time that decision came, did real damage.”

McCarthy was a Trump loyalist during his term as Speaker, consistently standing by the former president. But Trump didn’t return the favor when fellow Republicans ousted him from House leadership earlier this year.

Much of Cheney’s criticisms were based on McCarthy’s actions toward Trump surrounding the 2020 election.

The former Speaker blamed Trump for the violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots on the Capitol in the days after them but quickly turned face and has since sought to exonerate him.

Cheney was one of two Republicans who served on the House Jan. 6 committee, and quickly turned into one of Trump’s fiercest GOP critics.

Her comments come amid speculation that the


https://www.yahoo.com/news/cheney-calls-mccarthy-sad-pathetic-130955175.html

 

This is another aspect of Liz Cheney and her book I have never seen before. Cheney is now being interviewed by the major networks. And many of the reporters interviewing Cheney have also interviewed Trump and/or written books about him themselves. So they are playing the clips of their interviews of Trump that back up and confirm what's in Cheney's book. Which proves how credible Cheney is.

 

'Very senior' anonymous ex-Trump official deems him 'lethally incompetent': book

Maya Boddie, Alternet
December 27, 2023 7:57AM ET



Donald Trump (Photo by Gage Skidmore)


A new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party, "explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image—and the wreckage he's left in his wake," according to its summary.

Speaking with the veteran journalist Tuesday, MSNBC's The ReidOut host Joy Reid notes the book includes a quote from a former Trump official, saying, "He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring. 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 our nation and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and the rule of law."

Reid goes on to mention the 25th Amendment —which Brookings notes was originally meant "to provide for the orderly transfer of power when the president dies, resigns or is incapacitated — asking Karl, "Is Donald Trump fully there mentally?"



He replied, "It was the people that were closest to him that were talking about whether or not they needed to remove him from office because he was mentally unstable, mentally unable to carry out the duties of the president. And that is Pompeo and Mnuchin. They have both denied it. There is sworn testimony acknowledging those conversations did happen. They didn't go very far. Frankly, as he started to have people resign from the cabinet, there are fewer people in the cabinet to vote for it. But they were talking about it.

Karl continued, "And it's not just those 25th amendment conversations. I mean, you read that statement from an anonymous staffer. I think it's a very important statement. This was something that was given to me by the person who wrote it, and he wrote it right after all the details came out about the classified documents. This is a very senior official who spent day in and day out with Donald Trump for over a year in the West Wing. I can't give any further details to who it was, but there was a lot of attention about anonymous, and we later learned — it was Miles Taylor who worked at the department of homeland security. I will tell you this is somebody who is more senior and spent a lot more time around Donald Trump who said those words about him, because he saw first-hand how he had operated and was conveying this to me, didn't want to go public. Worried about the retribution we talked about. This is not somebody who has been out there publicly taking on the president, worried about retribution against the family, but deeply concerned about what a second Trump White House would look like."

Watch the video below or at this link.






https://www.rawstory.com/book-revea...al-deems-him-lethally-incompetent-2666810923/

 

More bullshit from that rascal "anonymous source".

Politispeak for "we either gave this a spin even we're embarrassed to admit or we just plain made it up to fit the official narrative".

 

Biden team calls Trump ‘dangerous’ after John Bolton warns against him in memoir
Alex Gangitano
Tue, January 30, 2024 at 10:20 AM MST·1 min read
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President Biden’s reelection campaign called former President Trump “dangerous” Tuesday following the release of a new edition of the memoir of leaving the page." data-wf-tooltip-position="bottom">John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser.

Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for Biden’s campaign, highlighted the new edition’s release to argue that Americans are less safe under Trump, in a statement first shared with The Hill.

“Donald Trump’s own National Security Advisor issued a stark warning about a second Trump presidency: Americans at home and abroad will be less safe under Trump. He’s already spent four years alienating our allies, cozying up to dictators, and was literally laughed at on the world stage,” Moussa said.


He argued that Trump has praised Russia President Vladimir Putin, called terrorists smart and threatened to pull the U.S. out of the NATO alliance.

“When our adversaries are rooting for your candidacy, you’re not just weak – you’re dangerous,” Moussa said.

Trump has pledged he would end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine if he’s elected president and described Hezbollah as “very smart.” Bolton, in August, also warned that Trump threatens the U.S. relationship with NATO.

Bolton’s memoir details his experiences inside the Trump White House before he left in 2019.

In the new foreword, he said he is worried that in a second term Trump would pull out of NATO, side with Russia over Ukraine amid the war and embolden China against Taiwan, according to Axios.

Bolton, a former Trump ally, also predicted Trump would pursue isolationism for the U.S. in a second term and warned that four more years would be worse than the first four years, Reuters reported.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-team-calls-trump-dangerous-172042101.html

 

.... and despicables will do whatever it takes, even destroy our democracy to stop trump.

 

Reality cannot be bullied on this. The only ones trying to destroy democracy in the United States of America are Trump and treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans including the ones here. They actually hate the United States of America and every great thing it has ever stood for. And are more than willing to end democracy here because Joe Biden was democratically elected president.

And here is more proof of that reality.


How a GOP strategist delivered 'most compelling evidence' of Trump’s 2020 corruption: book

Alex Henderson, AlterNet
January 31, 2024 10:05AM ET



Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP




In their new book "Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election," journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman take an in-depth look at Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia in 2020.

Isikoff and Klaidman discussed the book during a Wednesday morning appearance on CNN, describing the role that GOP strategist Jordan Fuchs played in bringing to light "the most powerful evidence" of Trump's efforts to take Georgia's Electoral College votes in 2020 despite the fact that now-President Joe Biden won the state.

That evidence was the now infamous post-election phone conversation in which Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" him enough votes to change the election results. Raffensperger's deputy Fuchs, according to Isikoff and Klaidman, secretly recorded the conversation.

Isikoff told CNN, "Look, absent that, we would not have the most compelling evidence of Trump's pressure campaign to alter vote totals — something that is front and center, not just in the Georgia case, but also, in Jack Smith's election interference case in Washington, D.C."

Isikoff went on to describe events leading up to the conversation and Fuchs' reasons for recording it. Fuchs, Isikoff noted, recorded it in order to protect Raffensperger.

"The Trump people had been trying to get in touch with Brad Raffensperger for weeks now, and Raffensperger was ducking the call because the Trump campaign is suing him and, you know, they're in ongoing litigation," Isikoff told CNN.

"They don't want to get on the phone with Trump…. knowing Trump's habit of perhaps distorting what would get said in any conversation between the two of them. But Mark Meadows reaches out finally to this young woman, Jordan Fuchs, a Republican strategist who…. was 30 years old at the time, who's serving as the chief of staff to Brad Raffensperger, and says the president really wants to speak."

Isikoff continued, "She finally relents, gets Brad Raffensperger to relent…. She knows the risks that Raffensperger is facing, and she's determined to protect the boss. She's on the call, but you never hear her voice.

“She put herself on mute, and she taped the whole thing. I've talked to colleagues — they said they never would have had the guts to do what Jordan did. But as we say right in the book, it was the most consequential act of the post-election battle because it delivered the actual evidence of Trump's — the extent of Trump's pressure campaign."


https://www.rawstory.com/how-a-gop-...red-the-most-compelling-evidence-of-trumps-2/

 

Psychological projection at its finest.

He calls america a "shithole country" and a "banana republic" and promotes the propaganda of our enemies.

And declares any who are not in lockstep with his agenda hate america.

TWAT

 

Here use this:


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Bolton is confirming two things that are actually part of Trump's mental illness and is documented multiple times on this thread. One is Trump's brain is reptilian and he can only feel himself. Which means everything must glorify him. And his only instinct is to survive from moment to moment. And that can be seen in Trump's constant need for attention and always grabbing the spotlight. But the really dangerous one Bolton points out is also due to Trump's mental illness his mind bounces like a pinball and often makes decisions based on whoever he talked to last. That was obvious in Trump's constant stream of direct contradictions. But what was harder to see is how many of Trumps sycophants knew how to use that to manipulate Trump. Even on things like national security. Trump could meet with his advisors that were supposed to be experts including the DoD agree to a plan. And then one advisor would get to Trump tell him something else and that would be the action Trump took against all the advice of the experts.

It is also very important to understand what really happened in this instance. Trump went against the advice of his military and national security experts and ordered the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran vowed to retaliate up to and including all out war because to save face they had to respond with something. So to get out of all out war someone, probably Putin. brokered a deal to allow Iran to attack one of our bases in Iraq which would allow the regime to save face.
It was all very carefully planned and the US troops on the base were waned the attack was coming far in advance so they could get to their bunkers. Iran's missiles didn't even hit the infrastructure of the base let alone the bunkers. And Trump went on TV to say since no US troops were injured he would stand down and not retaliate. But the missiles were far more powerful than anyone anticipated and more than a hundred of our troops trapped in their bunkers suffered traumatic brain injuries. Some of them were wounded so badly they had to be med-evacted out to foreign countries for emergency treatment. Others were wounded so badly it ended their military careers. And then Trump and even some members here had to spend the next few weeks lying about our wounded service members belittling them and their inures trying to claim traumatic brain injuries weren't really wounds and only amounted to a few headaches. All of that is documented on this forum. All because Trump thought it would get him some good press.

https://forum.xnxx.com/threads/so-the-killing-of-general-soleimani-was-not-what-was-told.579374/



Trump once ordered an assassination for 'credit' in the press: ex-official

M.L. Nestel
January 30, 2024 11:44PM ET



Trump Photo: Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock John Bolton photo by Christopher Halloran




Donald Trump's historic assassination of a notorious Iranian terrorist was driven largely by the then-president's ego, his former national security adviser said Tuesday.

John Bolton, appearing on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins to plug the paperback version featuring a new foreword to his 2020 book "The Room Where It Happened," discussed the rationale that went into the ordering of the drone strike killing of Iran's Revolutionary Guard’s Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Bolton discussed the 45th president's inability to keep focus on the task at hand and a massive blind spot that is his oversized ego.

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"Among the many other defects, he listens to the last person he talks to," said Bolton. "He looks at decisions through the prism of how they will be reported for his performance in the press not for what the outcome is."

When it came to moving on the intelligence to take out Soleimani, Bolton recalls that for Trump the intention was to get good press.

"He did order the early exit of the head of the Iranian Quds Force, but in listening to him talk about his views on why that was important it was clear to me it wasn't simply to eliminate this major figure who was the leader of Iranian terrorist actions but because it was such a big event he would get enormous credit for it."

Three days at the start of 2020 then-President Donald Trump delivered a speech from Mar-a-Lago confirming he eliminated the Iranian general.

The intention to prop himself up at every turn doesn't sit well with Bolton.

He admits there is some vanity when it comes to a politician's legacy; yet with Trump it was the central source behind the critical moment of life and death.

"Every politician thinks of his position, but only Trump I think in American history can be said is a president who thinks only of its effect on him."

Watch below or click the link.





https://www.rawstory.com/trump-assassination-credit-press-bolton/

 

Did you hear the brief interviews with the MAGA crowd who turned out to see their king?
"Which would you prefer: Trump as dictator or Biden as president in our democracy?"
Maybe the answers were filtered and selected, but half a dozen chose the dictator!!!