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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Liz Cheney is making a fool of herself (not the first time). On January 6, 2021, Trump could have acted as a dictator. The Secret Service told him not to go to the Capitol even though Trump wanted it. If Trump was a dictator, he would have went to the capitol against the wishes of the Secret Service.
-PJ
It’s all they have. Joe Biden is a confused, blithering moron. They have to paint Donald Trump as the literal spawn of Satan, just to level the playing field.
And her warmonger father’s tales about nonexistent WMDs in Iraq should be taken seriously with horrific consequences.
This dry cow should be tossed into the bin of History We’d Like To Forget.....along with Joe and Braaak.
Deport the bitch to China.
Or Afghanistan, I’m sure those Taliban boys would treat her “just right”.
It amazes me every day that some politician or has been either doesn't understand or refuses to understand Trump's comments. Is there anyone left in DC that has the intelligence of a 12 year old? Rhetorical question.
And as someone mentioned above, E.O.'s, unless directly affecting the Executive Branch should at the least be curtailed. I don't like that absolute authority. We've seen how the next President can undo the good of his predecessor.
And who is Lizzie to bitch after her boy-Biden killed every good thing from Trump with a pre-written stack of E.O.s to cancel Trump's E.O.s? What day was that? Oh right, Biteme's first day in office.
Trump said on his Day One he’d reverse the dictatorial edicts FJB enacted on his Day One, Lizard.
Liz: you are psychotic with TDS. We are tired of your moronic tirades. 🙄
I have yet to hear how this dictatorship is supposed to work when 99% of the deep state and establishment hate his guts.
Liz needs to get back on her meds.
Its Operation Mockingbird resurrected.
I certainly hope he was serious about closing the Southern Border and “Drill baby drill”. Lizardbrain needs to shut her pie hole and quit proving she’s just a vindictive, frustrated old woman.
Liz, still stinging from Trump calling your father a war monger, and she will never forget the slight.
Too bad it is true.
So instead of "Russia Russia Russia", the plan is "Dictator Dictator Dictator". Arrest and remove from power immediately. Absolutely in no way whatsoever will he be allowed to dismantle the Deep State.
Hey Liz, The Dictator is the guy pulling the strings in the current White House - Obama.
I take nothing queer Liz says seriously.
Like Obama, she will never go away.
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