Former President Donald Trump let unfastened on former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney following her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Citing her historic defeat by a 2-to-1 margin in 2022 — and the controversial management of her father, Vice President Dick Cheney, through the U.S. invasion of the Center East — Trump referred to as the previous Wyoming Republican a “low IQ conflict hawk.”
“Liz Cheney misplaced her Congressional Seat by the most important margin within the historical past of Congress for a sitting Consultant. The individuals of Wyoming are actually sensible!” Trump wrote on Fact Social.
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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks to the press at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP through Getty Photographs)
He continued, “She is a low IQ Struggle Hawk that, as a member of the J6 Unselect Committee of Political Hacks and Thugs, ILLEGALLY DESTROYED & DELETED all paperwork, data, and proof.”
Cheney, a one-time rising conservative star within the GOP, within the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol vowed to do every thing she will to forestall Trump from returning to energy.
The previous consultant campaigned for Harris in battleground Wisconsin on Thursday — pushing a message of unity towards their mutual enemy’s marketing campaign to return to the Oval Workplace.
The marketing campaign occasion occurred in Ripon, the place a one-room schoolhouse was designated a nationwide historic landmark as a result of its position in holding a collection of conferences in 1854 that led to the formation of the Republican Get together.
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Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks at a marketing campaign occasion for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at Ripon Faculty in Ripon, Wis. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
“I’ve by no means voted for a Democrat, however this yr I’m proudly casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris,” Cheney instructed the Wisconsin viewers as she formally endorsed the Democrat presidential nominee. “As a conservative, as a patriot, as a mom, as somebody who reveres our Structure, I’m honored to affix her on this pressing trigger.”
Cheney, who has been vocal in emphasizing the significance of defending the nation’s democratic course of and of placing nation earlier than get together, was one in all solely two Republicans who served on a particular choose committee organized by Home Democrats that investigated the riot on the Capitol.
Trump’s social media remarks lumped collectively Liz Cheney and her former vice chairman father — who has additionally endorsed Harris — writing them off as “two fools” who’re “struggling gravely from Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
“Her father, Dick, was a frontrunner of our ridiculous journey into the Center East, the place Trillions of {Dollars} have been spent, hundreds of thousands of individuals have been killed – and for what? NOTHING!
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, arrives to talk at a marketing campaign occasion with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., proper, at Ripon Faculty in Ripon, Wis. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
“Effectively, in the present day, these two fools, as a result of the Republican Get together now not desires them, endorsed essentially the most Liberal Senator within the U.S. Senate, additional Left than even Pocahontas or Loopy Bernie Sanders – Lyin’ Kamala Harris. What a pathetic couple that’s, each struggling gravely from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Good Luck to them each!!!”
Cheney on Thursday warned that “our republic faces a risk not like any now we have confronted earlier than: a former president who tried to remain in energy by unraveling the foundations of our republic.”
She argued that Trump “can by no means be trusted with energy once more” and emphasised that “on this election, placing patriotism forward of partisanship shouldn’t be an aspiration, it’s our responsibility.”
“What January 6 reveals us is there’s not an oz., not an oz., of compassion in Donald Trump. He’s petty. He’s vindictive. He’s merciless. And Donald Trump shouldn’t be match to steer this good and nice nation,” Cheney mentioned.
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
