Liz Cheney defends Trump impeachment vote after Wyoming State GOP censures her!

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Dear Commons Community,

Representative Liz Cheney, R-Wy., yesterday defended her vote for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment a day after her own state party officially rebuked her.

“The oath that I took to the Constitution compelled me to vote for impeachment, and it doesn’t bend to partisanship; it doesn’t bend to political pressure,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.”

On Saturday, the Wyoming Republican Party voted 74 to eight to censure Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, who was one of only a handful of GOP lawmakers to vote for Trump’s impeachment for allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 riot that stormed the Capitol. At the time, Cheney issued a scathing statement against Trump for his “betrayal.”

“The notion that the election had been stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie, and people need to understand that..We need to make sure that we as Republicans are the party of truth, and that we are being honest about what really did happen in 2020 so we actually have a chance to win in 2022 and win the White House back in 2024.”

She added that Mr. Trump “does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward.”

The remarks made plain that Ms. Cheney, a leading Republican voice trying to push the party back toward its traditional policy roots, had no intention of backing off her criticism of the former president after two attempts last week to punish her for her impeachment vote. In Washington, her critics forced a vote to try to oust her as the chairwoman of the House Republican conference, but it failed overwhelmingly on a secret ballot. And on Saturday, the Wyoming Republican Party censured her and called for her resignation.

Answering that call, Ms. Cheney said on Sunday that she would not resign and suggested that Republicans in her home state continued to be fed misinformation about what had taken place. It came a few days after she privately rebuffed a request by the House Republican leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, to apologize to her conference for how she handled herself around the impeachment vote, according to two people familiar with the exchange, which was first reported on Sunday by Axios.

“People in the party are mistaken,” she said on Fox News of the Jan. 6 attack, which, together with nearby protests, killed five people, including a Capitol Police officer. Referring to the Black Lives Matter movement, she added: “They believe that B.L.M. and antifa were behind what happened here at the Capitol. That’s just simply not the case, it’s not true…”

Stick by your convictions Ms. Cheney.  You are doing the country and your party a great service.

Tony 

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