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Cheney vs Trump

Former Rep. Liz Cheney responded to President-elect Trump’s threat that he would throw members who sat on the House committee that investigated rioting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in jail, calling his remarks an “assault on the rule of law.”

“Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power,”

Cheney said.

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“He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building and halted the official counting of electoral votes.

Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave,”

Cheney said.

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“This was the worst breach of our Constitution by any president in our nation’s history.

Donald Trump’s suggestion that members of Congress who later investigated his illegal and unconstitutional actions should be jailed is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”

On Sunday, Trump joined “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker for his first sit-down interview since winning the election in November.

In the conversation, he indicated he would not explicitly order those he’s appointing to top positions to go after his political enemies, but referenced jailing members who served on the House panel that investigated Jan. 6.

He called Cheney’s actions

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“inexcusable” and argued she was behind the entire committee’s operations. Trump said “honestly, they should go to jail,”
referring to the panel’s members.

As Trump prepares to enter the White House again, there’s concern he will use the Justice Department to go after his political rivals, something he spoke about during the campaign as he faced his own criminal charges.

He’s also assembling a Cabinet of loyalists, who, unlike his first administration, may not hold him back.

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, another staunch Trump critic, didn’t seem so worried about Trump’s threat. In an interview Sunday, he said he has
“absolutely no worries about being jailed by this fucker.”

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“First off, the executive branch can’t go after the legislative branch because we embarrassed him. That’s not a sin, that’s not against the law,”

Kinzinger said, later adding:

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“So, look, he’s all butt hurt right now because he was embarrassed.

He’s not going to come after us, and I’m not worried about it at all.”

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🇺🇸 The former Vice-President Dick Cheney Died 🕊

The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84. 🕯

A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. 🦅

He was a White House aide under Richard Nixon; the youngest ever chief of staff to Gerald Ford; a congressman under Ronald Reagan; secretary of defense to George H. W. Bush; and vice-president to George W. Bush.

When the younger Bush plucked him from the corporate giant Halliburton to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential election, Cheney had already survived three heart attacks ❤️‍🩹. Nor was he immune to mishap: once, while vice-president, he shot a hunting partner in the face 🎯.

Nonetheless, he became one of the most powerful vice-presidents, widely reported to wield great influence over the less experienced Bush ⚖️.

He was defense secretary during the first Gulf War (1990–1991), a swift campaign to eject Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.

A decade later, Bush and Cheney’s public rationale for war was that the Iraqi dictator was linked to al-Qaida and thus 9/11, and possessed weapons of mass destruction 💣.

By March 2003, when US and coalition forces invaded, no proof had been found for either charge — they were soon proved false.

The violence spread — according to the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, since 2001 “at least 800,000 people have been killed by direct war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan.” ☮️

The Cheney biographer Jake Bernstein said:
“There has been some rehabilitation with George W. Bush. In comparison with Donald Trump, everyone starts to look better. But Dick Cheney liked the fact everyone called him Darth Vader. I don’t think there’ll be an effort on his part to soften his image.” 🖤

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