‘I Hope Every American Watches That Clip’: Liz Cheney Stunned By Ex-Trump Pentagon Official Promising to Attack Media Critics
Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), once the chair of the House Republican Conference, spoke to CNN’s Jake Tapper this week about her new book and doubled down on her warning that former President Donald Trump returning to power would be a grave danger to American democracy.
At one point during the interview, Tapper asked Cheney about the threats made by some of those tapped to be top officials in a next Trump White House – particularly involving using the power of government to punish domestic enemies.
“During that period between Donald Trump losing and Joe Biden becoming president, the inauguration, Kash Patel, who served on Trump’s National Security Council, became chief of staff to the Pentagon,” Tapper began.
“And earlier this week, he said this on Steve Bannon’s podcast. Take a listen,” Tapper said before introducing the clip:
We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly. We’ll figure that out.
“So Patel said he would follow the facts and the law. But this is a preview for what would happen in a second Trump term. Axios is reporting today that a Trump cabinet would likely include Patel, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon and others. What do you think when you hear that? What do you hear when you think about a second Trump term?” Tapper asked Cheney.
“Look, I hope every American watches that clip that you just showed,” Cheney replied, adding:
Because if you imagine the people who are on the absolute fringe, the people who are the least responsible, people who may well be unstable, and you imagine giving them supreme and ultimate power, that’s what Donald Trump would do. He would take somebody like Kash Patel making assertions like that and give him authority. I don’t know their talking about, you know, Kash as the head of the CIA, potentially.
Now, one of the things that we also know is that Donald Trump tried to appoint him to other positions before he made him chief of staff at the Pentagon and reportedly the CIA director, then gina Haspel, threatened to resign. That’s the only reason that Kash didn’t end up at the CIA earlier. But these are people who have no there’s no fitness for any appointed position, they have no place exercising any kind of authority. But those are the types of people who would be around Donald Trump if he were reelected.
Watch the full clip above via CNN.
