Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is warning that the United States is “sleepwalking into dictatorship,” saying that if former President Trump is reelected, it could mean the end of the republic.
“One of the things we see today is sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” Cheney told CBS News’s John Dickerson.
Cheney, an outspoken critic of Trump, is releasing a book Tuesday titled “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.” The book rebukes the modern Republican Party and dives into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Cheney was the vice chair of the House select committee that investigated the insurrection.
“He’s told us what he will do. It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take,” she said of the former president in the new interview.
Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nomination, has threatened to “root out” his political enemies if he returns to the White House, telegraphing a sweeping overhaul of the federal government and criminal prosecutions for some of his opponents.
“People who say ‘well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted,” she added.
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is warning that the United States is “sleepwalking into dictatorship,” saying that if former President Trump is reelected, it could mean the end of the republic https://t.co/FtIdNGKB4D pic.twitter.com/pSmlmcooLv
— The Hill (@thehill) December 1, 2023
"Again—and I cannot emphasize this enough—this is not a prediction from me and my weirdo, Never Trump friends. This is what the people who worked for Trump believe he will do." https://t.co/U2YVNMZPED pic.twitter.com/KlVAvH9TG6
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) December 1, 2023
A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. https://t.co/ciTbnyrYcV
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 30, 2023
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