The voice a little hoarse, all in blue, Republican Liz Cheney was the star of the first day of hearings of the commission of inquiry into the invasion of the Capitol on January 6. Since she agreed to participate in the work, boycotted by the staff of her party, the Democrats shower her with praise. Jamie Raskin, the Democrat of Maryland, who led Trump’s second impeachment case, praised his “Credibility” and his “Legitimacy”. Nancy Pelosi, the most influential Democrat after Joe Biden, paid tribute to her “Courage”.
At 55, the daughter of the former vice-president of George W. Bush led the opposition to Donald Trump. If she is not among the pioneers of never trumper – Republicans who have always refused to swear allegiance to the former real estate mogul – she who voted for Trump in 2016, Liz Cheney has shown rare pugnacity since refusing to recognize Joe’s victory Biden. Without fear, without reproach and without fear of knocking: “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution” that when Donald Trump urged his supporters to march on Capitol Hill, she said after the January 6 insurgency.
Is she positioning herself for the 2024 presidential election? Liz Cheney is not afraid to appear as an objective ally of the Democrats. To the point of positioning itself in press conferences alongside “the enemy”, even if it only makes common cause with them on the need to pursue the rioters and their alleged instigator. “I’ve been a Conservative since I voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984, she underlined Tuesday July 27. I disagree with each of the Democrats on this committee. “ From taxation to abortion and national security, Liz Cheney is a hawk-like Republican, like her father, the architect of the Iraq war and secret CIA prisons. “But at the end of the day, she says, we are a nation, under the protection of God. “
Parachuting in Wyoming
Liz Cheney has not always been well in court with Democrats. Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, after the invasion of Iraq, she tried to implement the great design of the neoconservatives to propagate democracy in the Arab world. After her departure from the government, she founded the Keep America Safe association, one of whose feats of arms was to attack the lawyers of Guantanamo detainees, not patriotic enough in her eyes. Ten years later, here she is rehabilitated, if not forgiven, like George W. Bush, who has become frequentable again, despite the invasion of Iraq.
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