Posted on 12/09/2023 8:23:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, who is warning about the potential dangers of a second Donald Trump presidency, said Americans should take his recent dictator remark "literally and seriously."
Trump raised alarms earlier this week when he declined to flat out reassure the public that he wouldn't abuse power if he is elected, instead telling Fox News host Sean Hannity he wouldn't be a dictator "except on Day One."
Some Republicans have suggested Trump was making a joke but Cheney -- who had a lead role in investigating his actions after the 2020 election and on Jan. 6, 2021 -- disagreed.
"I think we have to take everything that Donald Trump says literally and seriously," Cheney said in an interview with ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl, which will air Sunday on "This Week."
"And I think that we saw, frankly, what he was willing to do already after the 2020 election in the lead up to Jan. 6, after Jan 6," she continued. "People need to remember that when Donald Trump woke up on the morning of Jan. 6, he thought he was going to remain as president. And we saw the extent to which he was willing to attempt to seize power when he lost an election."
Cheney called it "wishful thinking" to believe that Trump would "now abide by the rulings of the courts or be stopped by the guardrails of our democracy."
It cost Cheney her congressional career to take on Trump, who she's characterized as an existential threat to American democracy and perhaps the "most dangerous" person to ever occupy the Oval Office. Trump, hitting back in social media posts this week, called her comments "unhinged" and said she is suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
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The current coordinated campaign to paint Trump as planning a dictatorship completely lacks credibility. If Trump declared himself dictator the woke senior officers of the Obama/Biden military leadership would arrest him with the applause of the media, 100% of Democrats in Congress and most of the RINO GOP members of Congress.
Given the woke orientation of the military leadership, the FBI, the intelligence agencies, Congressional Democrats, much of the federal judiciary, the media, the government bureaucracy, and corporate boardrooms the odds of Joe Biden successfully declaring himself a dictator, and functioning as one, are much higher than Trump’s chance for success. In fact the greatest peril to “our democracy” may be a Trump victory on election night 2024 followed by Biden and the Congressional Democrats declaring a national emergency, nulliffying the election and suspending the Constitution, perhaps followed by the installation of Gavin Newsom as dictator for the “length of the current national emergency.”
“Liz Cheney is like that crazy homeless lady on the street who is gesturing wildly and randomly shouting nonsense to no one in particular.”
Trump’s truth trumps Biden’s bald face lies, Cheney’s too for that matter.
All too true. I would make the distinction that being a kook is the source of Liz Cheney’s rottenness. It would have been far better for all if Liz’s kookery had led simply to her stuffing her house with cats, Hummel figurines, and collections of decorative spoons.
Liz, sweetheart, nobody cares what you have to say. The good patriots of Wyoming have spoken and the only thing I can discern is that they don’t like you very much. How badly did you lose your primary anyway? If memory serves, it was about 25 to 75. Think of it this way darling, you have more time to go quail hunting with your Daddy, just don’t get downrange or you’re liable to get a face full of number 8 birdshot.
She did not want to address his closing the border and drill baby drill.
The Biden Junta ignores unfavorable Court decisions, and does what they’ve been told is not permissible.
13 more months and the mass executions begin.
Treachery comes with a price. Lizard and Kinzinger know what’s coming. Their fates are sealed. They will not escape the punishment headed their way.
I hope Emperor Trump holds a raffle for the lucky citizen to be an executioner for a day. It’s going to be glorious.
“ Thanks to idiot Hannity.”
What?!
Liz Cheney just another Hillary wind up doll.
So dictator for a day then.
In other words:
How dare Donald Trump threaten to use the exact same rules we are using against him, against us if re-elected.
Doesn’t Lying Liz know America stopped believing anything Cheney says a long time ago.
Big Mistake, Liz. Big. huge. Like your mouth
The tree should be watered....
Liz, STFU and go away. Take that “literally and seriously”.
WILL SOMEONE-—ANYONE -—PLEASE 51-50 this woman???
Just look at her face. She looks terrified. Will say anything to prevent her lies from being exposed.
This us fast becoming a clown show.
She’s a fool, and a liar.
She smells like desperation
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