Liz Cheney will not fall silent. The Wyoming Republican, attacked from all sides within her party for her obstinacy in denouncing the “Big lie” conveyed by Donald Trump that a massive fraud would have cost him his re-election, published in the Washington post, Wednesday May 5, a virulent forum against the former businessman. She warns the Grand Old Party against a potentially devastating drift.
The daughter of former George W. Bush vice president Dick Cheney has hit hard as she could be dismissed in the coming days from the leadership of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives. By reiterating his accusations, however devoid of any foundation, Donald Trump, according to her, is passing the “Message” according to which “ [il est] still the legitimate president β, “Knowing that this type of language provoked the violence of January 6”, the assault launched by some of his supporters against the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the results of the presidential election of November 3, 2020.
“I am a Republican conservative, and the most conservative of conservative values ββis respect for the rule of law”, she assures. The elected recalls that the victory of Joe Biden, was certified in accordance with the law by the States, as well as by justice each time it was seized, contrary to what Donald Trump once again affirmed in a press release published the same day.
“The Republican Party is at a turning point”
“The commitment to the peaceful transfer of power between political rivals in accordance with the law is at the heart of our republic”, continues Liz Cheney who believes that departing from it amounts to breaking with a “American miracle” as a result of membership in a “Dangerous and undemocratic cult of Trump’s personality.”
“The Republican Party is at a crossroads, and Republicans must decide if we are going to choose truth and loyalty to the Constitution”, she writes, or “Abandon the rule of law and join Trump’s crusade to undermine the foundations of our democracy and reverse the legal outcome of the last election”.
The elected Wyoming was among the ten elected Republican who voted in January in the House in favor of the indictment of Donald Trump for his role in the attack on the Capitol. They were followed in February by seven other Conservatives in the Senate who found him guilty of inciting insurgency. At first, Liz Cheney was supported by the leader of the Republican minority in the House, Kevin McCarthy, himself initially very harsh about Donald Trump’s behavior on January 6. The latter had delayed long hours before appealing to the rioters to leave the Capitol, while showering them with praise. But Kevin McCarthy now spares the former president of his criticisms, to concentrate them on the contrary against his number three.
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