Before riot, Trump said 'we got to get rid' of Rep. Liz Cheney

[My Pet Orangutan]

Before riot, Trump said ‘we got to get rid’ of Rep. Liz Cheney. Now she supports impeaching him.

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Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third-ranking member of the House Republican leadership, became the most prominent congressional Republican to call for Trump’s impeachment. “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” Cheney said in a statement. “I will vote to impeach the president.”

Six days earlier, Cheney was in the House chamber, urging that Republicans reject efforts pushed by Trump and many in her party to challenge the electoral college results that had determined Trump had lost his reelection bid. She did not know that she was being attacked by Trump, who was delivering the speech that would incite a mob to storm the Capitol, until her father reached her by phone in the House cloakroom.

“We got to rid of the weak Congresspeople, the ones that aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world,” Trump said in the speech, singling her out as he urged the mob to march to the Capitol.

After being informed of the president’s tirade by her father, Cheney walked out on the House floor, still hoping to stop the effort backed by Trump to overturn the electoral college votes. Then she heard a mob banging on the chamber’s doors and a shot fired, and realized that an attempted insurrection was underway. She hustled to a secure location and later called Fox News.

“There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob,” Cheney told the network where she once worked and whose pundits had long supported Trump. “He lit the flame."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cheney-trump-house-impeach/2021/01/12/648c677a-54d2-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html

Crossing Darth is nuts, but MF45 is barking.

[My Pet Orangutan]

1. Kick.

[LisaL]

2. Well, good.

Lets hope more republicans vote to impeach.

[My Pet Orangutan]

3. Darth is such a sweet and forgiving guy.

Trump really must be off his rocker.

[Zorro]

4. Never cross Darth Cheney's daughter if you're a Republican

[LudwigPastorius]

5. I wonder if Dick is going to call in some markers from his shadier pals.

Trump will still be under Secret Service protection for a while, but knowing him, he'll want to ditch them for his own security detail. (In his mind, it's not about professionalism, but perceived loyalty.)

That might give Dick Cheney a chance to strike.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a headline in a month, or so, about how Trump had a fatal heart attack on the golf course at Mar-A-Lago.