Liz Cheney Nukes Trump While Campaigning For Kamala Harris: ‘He Is Petty. He Is Vindictive And He Is Cruel’
Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) excoriated former President Donald Trump while campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Thursday.
Cheney, once the chair of the House GOP Conference, pulled no punches in criticizing Trump’s character and his actions during the leading up to and during to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice our Capitol to allow law enforcement officers to be beaten and brutalized in his name and to violate the law and the Constitution in order to seize power for himself,” said Cheney, who lead the House investigation into the violence that day. She added:
I don’t care if you are a Democrat or a Republican or an independent, that is depravity and we must never become numb to it. Any person. Any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power again. We must defeat Donald Trump on November 5th.
Cheney then turned to her time campaigning with her father Dick Cheney and then President George W Bush in 2004 – the last time the GOP won the popular vote.
“In that election, 20 years ago, when we were campaigning in Wisconsin and all across the country, we were campaigning as compassionate conservatives. What January 6th shows us is that there is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion in Donald Trump. He is petty. He is vindictive and he is cruel. And Donald Trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation,” she said to loud applause.
Cheney also made clear that she views Trump as a dangerous outlier in the long tradition of U.S. presidents. “In this country, under our constitution, our president has a particular, solemn obligation to ensure and guarantee the peaceful transfer of power… Every president in our history has fulfilled that duty. Every president until Donald Trump.”
Cheney repeatedly made clear during her speech that despite being a lifelong Republican she will vote for Harris. “The most conservative of conservative values is fidelity to our constitution,” Cheney said. “I have never voted for a Democrat, but this year I am proudly casting my vote for President Kamala Harris.”
“I was a Republican even before Donald Trump started spray-tanning,” added Cheney during another moment in the speech in which she also urged voters to “reject the depraved cruelty” of Trumpism.
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