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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Let’s take the word dictator off the table, but leave in the actions and promises of Trump and those who likely will serve under him and at his pleasure that ultimately would by default make Trump very much dictator like. How many here wouldn’t want to see that?
I here this dumb biootchhhh and I just shake my head!
Does ANYONE really take her seriously!
“hear”, ughhh
Those who listen to Liz Cheney need a serious head adjustment. She’s nothing but a hate filled assistant dimmocrap.
If she isn’t that woman now Liz will certainly end up like that at this rate.
WTF?
Where is the constitutional basis for any of this? Pining for the days of imperial Rome where it became the rule of man, rather than the rule of law?
I get your view of Cheney. But, good Lord, man. Don’t forget the Constitution.
Sure, and no damage can be done in one day. Look at everything that happened in a short timeframe starting in 2009...
will someone please take her hunting.
How did this thread turn into DU?
The irrational reaction of the Left to this, as if Johnson was proposing the manner of compelled indoctrination the Left has been progressively instituting for years, and the censorship and penalization of opposition it evidences it wants to be total, exposes the Left as something to be avoided.
You mean when he said he would close the border and open drilling, Lizard?
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