Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday hit back at former Rep. Liz Cheney for her recent comments attacking him.
“Crazy Liz Cheney, who may be responsible for destroying the evidence from the J6 Unselect Committee, making all cases, past and present, highly questionable, AT BEST, is suffering from a massive case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” Mr. Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “She just lost her Congressional Seat by the largest margin EVER, now is desperately looking for something else to do. Her unhinged statements are becoming a THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
Ms. Cheney has been a guest on multiple news shows discussing her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.” In the book she writes about the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the Capitol and the Republican Party under Mr. Trump.
In her interviews, she has warned against the reelection of Mr. Trump.
“A Trump vote is not acceptable,” Ms. Cheney said on NBC’s “Today” show Monday. “I hope there are options and alternatives that reflect the important challenges that we’re facing and that reflect leadership to meet those challenges, but that choice can never be Donald Trump because a vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in.”
She added, “I don’t say that lightly, and I think it’s heartbreaking that that’s where we are, but people have to recognize that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote against the Constitution.”
She also said if Mr. Trump wins a second term he would refuse to leave office after the four years are up.
“There’s no question. Absolutely. He’s already done it once,” she said. “He’s already attempted to seize power, and he was stopped, thankfully, and for the good of the nation and the republic. But he said he will do it again. He’s expressed no remorse for what he did.”
Ms. Cheney said on CBS’ “Sunday Morning” show, “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.”
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was one of the nine House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump after Jan. 6. She also served as vice chairwoman on the House select committee that investigated the event.
She lost her Wyoming election in a landslide last year to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman.
“It’s painful for me as someone who, you know, has spent their whole life in Republican politics, who grew up as Republican, to watch what’s happening to my party,” Ms. Cheney said, “and to watch the extent to which Donald Trump himself has, you know, basically determined that the only thing that matters is him, his power, his success.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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