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Liz Cheney

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Liz Cheney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. During her time in Congress, Cheney was known for her strong stance on national security and her opposition to former President Donald Trump, particularly following the events of January 6, 2021, which led to her being removed from her leadership position within the House Republican Conference.

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Dec 4, 2023

The other thing that people have to realize is what it means if a president of United States won't enforce the rulings of our courts.

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Dec 4, 2023

This Group Of Republicans Can't Be Counter On To Defend The Constitution

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Dec 4, 2023

He is an existential threat to democracy and folks need to wake up.

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Dec 4, 2023

Yes. I mean, I think the lesson that we've seen over the course of the last couple of years is that this group of elected Republicans can't be counted on to defend the constitution.

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Dec 4, 2023

I'm going to look at this over the next couple of months through the lens of how do we stop Donald Trump.

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Dec 4, 2023

There's nothing in the tapes that can change the facts of what happened that day.

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Dec 4, 2023

I think it's naive and a real misreading of what we've lived through to think that we can count on the guardrails that we have in place.

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Dec 4, 2023

I think we have to have the majority of the American people who are not part of sort of this -- the cult of personality around Donald Trump.

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Dec 4, 2023

I think that the overwhelming majority of Republicans understand that that's disinformation, that that's a lie.

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Dec 4, 2023

We are sleepwalking into authoritarianism and to dictatorship.

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Dec 3, 2023

A vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in. And again, I don't say that lightly. And it -- I think it's heartbreaking that that's where we are, but people have to recognize that a vote for Donald Trump…

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Nov 27, 2023

Cheney accuses Kevin McCarthy of repeatedly lying and choosing, 'the craven path of embracing Trump'.

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Nov 27, 2023

Elected officials who believe their own political survival is more important than anything else threaten the survival of our republic, no matter what they tell themselves to justify their cowardice.

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Nov 27, 2023

Liz Cheney's new book and the revelations in it about the former president, which she calls his Republican enablers and collaborators, and how she says they just could not quit him.

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Nov 27, 2023

Johnson was pressuring Republican members, especially freshmen, to support Trump.

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Oct 31, 2023

dangerous. That's how former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney described the new House Speaker Mike Johnson.

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Sep 18, 2023

I am opposed to term limits, and not for any self-serving reason, but because I think they are a bad idea.

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Aug 23, 2023

he remains a clear and present danger. When he says this over and over again, it is a campaign slogan, but it also could lead to violence.

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Jul 11, 2023

This committee has learned that the FBI acted to quote, 'discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.'

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Jul 11, 2023

Neither you nor the FBI have any legal authority to circumvent the First Amendment by using a surrogate to do your dirty work.

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Jul 11, 2023

Your office has never responded to these letters.

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