Posted on 07/01/2020 7:51:31 AM PDT by rintintin
Rep. Liz Cheney has suddenly become one of the most outspoken GOP critics of Donald Trump.
Even more surprising: The Wyoming Republican hasn’t faced any serious blowback from the president.
Criticizing Trump is not new for Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican. But she has increasingly called out Trump over his foreign policy decisions and leadership during the coronavirus crisis — a risky move in today’s GOP, where any break with Trump can fuel a primary challenge or nasty Twitter tirade from the president.
But Cheney’s found a balancing act that few Republicans have been able to achieve. And as the prospect of a post-Trump GOP begins to come into view, her relative independence from the president could position her for another rapid rise in party leadership.
“She’s got values, she’s got guts, and she says what’s on her mind. That resonates with a lot of people,” said Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.).
In her latest rebuke of Trump, Cheney openly questioned whether the president was aware of reports that the Russians offered Afghan militants bounties to kill U.S. troops and demanded the administration take a more aggressive posture toward the Kremlin.
And a few days before, Cheney took a veiled shot at Trump by tweeting out a photo of her dad wearing a mask with the caption: “Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK. #realmenwearmasks” — the same phrase that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been using to take digs at Trump ...
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Careful, your critical thinking skills are showing.
I agree. Additionally, they all know that the alternative to reelecting Pres Trump is to install a total Deep State, globalist communist regime that will destroy America as we know it. No Republic, no Republican party or any other political opposition to a one world, unelected, elitist controlled government. All of these No Trumpers, including the Cheney family, have reaped enormous wealth from their associating themselves with the capitalist US Govt and the US Treasury. Ingrates and back stabbers and cowards who have not got the guts or spine to support the President of the US, elected by over 60 million citizens. The Cheney supporters should all be honest enough to publicly join the communist democrat party. A major pox on all of them. President Trump still standing tall, while Pelosi and Schumer bow before their globalist masters. Take a knee, Cheney family, along with the rest of the GOP woke ingrates.
Perhaps her reelection poll numbers are down?
GOP is a dead party as is the DNC.
I’m in WY, and she won’t get my vote again. Just like Mitten’s .... I think she wants to be President and is trying to position herself for the ‘I didn’t like Trump’ vote.
Maybe there’s a skeleton in her closet.
What? A "rapid rise in" a party that no one will attend?
The Never Trumper GOP-E folks really seem to think if their actions help elect a loonie socialist they will still have a party to "lead".
I, for one, will return to the ranks of the non-voting citizens.
Amen to that brother!!! Plus she is a died in the wool conservative.
Hey Liz, “(what that Buffalo police office called the woman filming police interaction with that hobo)”
Not sure attacking Trump is wise for a Wyoming politician. Though one wonders how she got elected in the first place.
"The Name You Know!"
She's establishment, so she just doesn't get it. After Trump we're not going back to the way things used to be.
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