Liz Cheney Blames Kevin McCarthy for House GOP Dysfunction: He Empowered Members Who Are ‘White Supremacists’ and ‘Anti-Semitic’

Former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney tore apart House Republicans for enabling fringe elements within the party that came into display amid the recent chaos over who will be the next speaker.

Cheney joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday’s State of the Union — where she was asked for her thoughts about what Tapper called the “fiasco” in Congress now that Rep. Jim Jordan’s speaker bid has ended in failure.

“I wish that it were surprising,” Cheney said, adding that the current situation all comes back to ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

What we’ve seen is a result of the leadership decisions that Kevin McCarthy made back after the 2020 election and certainly after January 6. Looking the other way in the face of the kind of assault on our democracy that we’ve seen from Donald Trump and his allies in the house, including Jim Jordan. elevating those members, frankly, some of whom are white supremacists. Some of whom are anti-semitic, and a number of whom were involved directly in the attempt to seize power and overturn the election.

Cheney went on to lament the threats made against Jordan’s holdouts and how they’ve been ignored by Jordan’s allies.

“Those have become part of our politics in a way that certainly they never should,” she said. “That kind of acceptance of violence is completely inappropriate and dangerous in our politics.”

Asked if she blames Trump for the escalation of violent rhetoric, Cheney said “I think you would certainly have to trace it back, in its modern version, to Donald Trump.” She referred to how the former president fueled his supporters with lies about the 2020 election before the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Watch above via CNN.