Outgoing RepLizCheney blasts party for treating Trump ‘as though he were a king’
Cheney, perhaps her party’s most vocal critic of Trump, is vice chairwoman of the House select committee investigating the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. She was defeated last month in a primary for Wyoming’s at-large House seat by Harriet Hageman, who Trump endorsed.
“And today, we are facing such a threat. It's a threat we have never faced before — it’s a former president who is attempting to unravel our constitutional republic,” she said.Cheney blasted Trump as “a president who has abandoned his oath,” arguing that when “men and women in positions of public trust defend the indefensible and make excuses for Donald Trump, they compromise the principles of our democratic republic.
”Our constitutional system has been defended and handed down to us by every generation since 1789,” she said. “It comes to us with a duty of inheritance. It doesn't belong to us. It belongs to our children and our grandchildren, and we must not be the generation that allows it to unravel.” “But those concerns cannot justify what the Republican Party is doing now,” she said. “The means do not justify the ends.”
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