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Fact Check: Is Donald Trump Right About His Liz Cheney Claim?
Newsweak ^ | Dec 7, 2023 | Newsweek's Fact Check team

Posted on 12/07/2023 8:56:27 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Donald Trump and former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney have been engaged in a war of words over her new memoir, in which she criticizes the former president and other Republicans.

Among Cheney's claims is that then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Trump became depressed and stopped eating after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, which Trump has denied.

Trump has since hit back in a series of messages including one that said she lost her Congressional seat by the largest margin in history.

A post by Donald Trump on Truth Social on Wednesday, December 6, stated that Liz Cheney "lost her Congressional Seat by the largest margin EVER."......

Donald Trump's claim is largely correct.

Cheney's margin of loss was the second-largest for a House incumbent in a primary in the past 60 years; however, the larger loss occurred in a runoff.

The only other incumbent to lose by a wider margin was South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis, who lost in 2010 by 40 points to Trey Gowdy in the runoff. Inglis trailed Gowdy by 11 points in the initial vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: california; cheney; cheneyelection; kevinmccarthy; lizcheney; trump; trumplies; wyoming
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Hard to believe newsweak didn't call Trump a liar.
1 posted on 12/07/2023 8:56:27 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trivial details

Cheney is hated in her own district when she took up the cause of the deep-state neocons, and Trump is loved. That much is obvious.


2 posted on 12/07/2023 8:59:08 PM PST by PGR88
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why would we care if he stopped eating? Sounds like a normal reaction. But as always with Trump accusations, she heard it third or fourth hand.


3 posted on 12/07/2023 8:59:26 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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Stop giving Newsweek clicks.


4 posted on 12/07/2023 9:01:58 PM PST by Owen (.)
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To: Owen

LOL, I could have linked to MSN where I found the article:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-check-is-donald-trump-right-about-his-liz-cheney-claim/ar-AA1l96Sq?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c33975e5c4404b60823a095e1d2cf5b9&ei=78

But got a lot of complaints about not using the original source. Can’t win for losing.


5 posted on 12/07/2023 9:05:23 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: Owen

I would but then would never have seen the below:

Buried within the U.S. intelligence community’s report on Russian activities in the presidential election is clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States. By targeting fracking, Putin hopes to increase oil and gas prices, destabilize the U.S. economy and threaten America’s energy independence.

https://www.newsweek.com/intelligence-putin-funding-anti-fracking-campaign-547873


6 posted on 12/07/2023 9:11:50 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

NO, no, no, please, the actual sources are always better.


7 posted on 12/07/2023 9:14:30 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Cheney's margin of loss was the second-largest for a House incumbent in a primary in the past 60 years;

Was Trump talking about all House primaries or Wyoming House primaries? A real reporter would have found out.

The Mockingbird Media is so fake they feel the need to elevate sLiz Cheney to "the 2nd largest House incumbent primary loser of all time" which is so much better than being number one. LOL

8 posted on 12/07/2023 9:23:54 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Newsweek is not really that bad. It’s much better than AP, NY Times, WaPo etc.


9 posted on 12/07/2023 9:24:25 PM PST by lasereye
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Maybe I missed it, but did NewsweAk’s “ fact check team “ investigate the FBI presence on January 6th, the allegations of quid-pro-quos of the Biden crime syndicate, the flood of illegals across the border, or the pro-Palestinian virus at U.S. universities?


10 posted on 12/07/2023 9:26:32 PM PST by BrexitBen
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...Cheney is hated in her own district ...

Wyoming only has one Congressman. Her District is the entire state of Wyoming.

11 posted on 12/07/2023 9:28:02 PM PST by Nateman (If the Pedo Profit Mad Moe (pig pee upon him!) was not the Antichrist then he comes in second.)
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claims back and forth like these remind me of elementary school taunts. For pete’s sake, enough already!


12 posted on 12/07/2023 9:30:45 PM PST by llevrok (β€œIn a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

How the entire nation is not depressed about that we have a nation wrecking government is beyond me.


13 posted on 12/07/2023 9:35:38 PM PST by inchworm (al )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

heard anything more about cheney entering the race?


14 posted on 12/07/2023 9:37:20 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: PGR88

Trivial details

Cheney is hated in her own district when she took up the cause of the deep-state neocons, and Trump is loved. That much is obvious.

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Cheney was destroyed in a Wyoming Republican Primary.(66% to 28%)
It takes a political genius to get your ass kicked by almost 40 points in Wyoming.(sarcasm)

Wyoming Republicans didn’t like her representation and promptly kicked “DC Liz” to the curb.

To any Freepers from Wyoming, the only words that come to mind is “Thank You.”


15 posted on 12/07/2023 9:39:16 PM PST by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
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To: PGR88

Cheney hated in her own state?
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee J. McCollum was from Jackson which is in Teton county, one of the two she carried


16 posted on 12/07/2023 10:16:20 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism .)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Lez the Loser


17 posted on 12/07/2023 10:23:43 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male πŸ€ͺ)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Lez still has a big boot up her butt from the election


18 posted on 12/07/2023 10:27:36 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male πŸ€ͺ)
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To: unclebankster

And that was with them courting Dems to change parties which probably at least gave her another couple of points.


19 posted on 12/07/2023 10:49:55 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: inchworm

It is because neither of the leading candidates are talking about the economic malaise because they are too busy whining about their respective perdonal/family legal woes.


20 posted on 12/07/2023 10:51:01 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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