Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told her party on Wednesday evening that it must choose between the rule of the law and its leader, recognizing that it would be “painful” for the party to accept former President Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“We have to choose because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution,” Cheney said during a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute as part of its “Time for Choosing” speaker series.
Cheney has drawn the ire of many of her Republican colleagues for voting to impeach Trump and serving as the vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol. Polls show her trailing a Trump-backed challenger in her bid to keep her House seat in November.
The Wyoming Republican condemned the former president and his allies, calling him “dangerous” and “irrational” and saying Trump tried to remain in office as other Republicans served as “willing hostages.”
“As the full picture is coming into view with the January 6 committee, it has become clear that the efforts Donald Trump oversaw and engaged in were even more chilling and threatening than we could have imagined,” Cheney said.
But Cheney said she had hope for the country, arguing that young women in particular have realized the “peril” of Jan. 6.
“These days, for the most part, men are running the world, and it is really not going that well,” she said.
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“Her superiors, men many years older, a number of them are hiding behind executive privilege, anonymity and intimidation,” Cheney said of the 26-year-old Hutchinson. “But her bravery and her patriotism yesterday were awesome to behold.”
Cheney described Trump’s actions following the 2020 election as “painful” for Republicans to accept but implored her colleagues to prioritize their constitutional responsibility.
“Ultimately, that is what our duty as Americans requires of us,” Cheney said. “That we love our country more, that we love her so much, that we will stand above politics to defend her.”
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Cheney: GOP must choose between loyalty to Trump or the Constitution https://t.co/FjUmwX8SDR pic.twitter.com/sly8AZDJ9A
— The Hill (@thehill) June 30, 2022
"No party, and no people, and no nation can defend and perpetuate a constitutional Republic if they accept a leader who's gone to war with the rule of law, with the democratic process, with the peaceful transition of power, with the Constitution itself." https://t.co/MU8ul5dqC9
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 30, 2022
.@RepLizCheney (R-WY): "We have to choose, because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution." pic.twitter.com/eoYAFQEpld
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 30, 2022
Reagan Library Erupts in Applause at Liz Cheney's Blistering Evisceration of Trump Over Jan. 6 https://t.co/s3D1SSxoXm
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 30, 2022
Too late, Rep. Cheney. Most Republicans have already made their choice and it’s not the Constitution. This is why we sane, rational voters must defeat Trump and his cult.
And it’s also why you and other Never Trumpers in the party should leave and form your own party.
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