‘Never Trump’ Republican puts pressure on former president ahead of Capitol riot anniversary
Anti-Trump Republican Liz Cheney wants to purge her party of Donald Trump, accusing her fellow conservative lawmakers of “trying to enable the former president.” Republican voters, however, still favor Trump in massive numbers.
One of the strongest anti-Trump voices in the Republican party, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), marked the upcoming anniversary of the Capitol Hill riot by talking to multiple cable news networks to call for Trump to be excommunicated from the party.
Cheney also implored the GOP to keep the Democrat-run January 6 Committee – derided by both Trump and Republican leadership as a “sham” – operational should they retake control of the House in November.
“We as Republicans have a choice to make … we can either be loyal to Donald Trump or be loyal to the Constitution,” she told CBS News on Sunday. “We cannot be both. And right now there are far too many Republicans who are trying to enable the former president, embrace the former president, look the other way and hope that the former president goes away, trying to obstruct the activities of this committee, but we won’t be deterred.”
On CBS, Cheney says the Republican Party must choose between being loyal to Donald Trump or the Constitution, "but we cannot be both."