Former President Trump and his allies are pushing back on former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) ahead of the release of her new book, which includes stark warnings about another Trump presidency.
Cheney, one of two Republicans who served of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, said Monday on NBC’s “Today” show that “a vote for Donald Trump may mean the last election that you ever get to vote in.”
Previously, Cheney told CBS News’s John Dickerson that the U.S. is “sleepwalking into dictatorship,” adding that congressional Republicans “have been co-opted.”
Trump on Monday responded to one book excerpt from Cheney in which she said former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) had told her Trump was depressed and not eating after the Jan. 6 attack.
“That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a top Trump ally, responded to Cheney’s warnings about a second Trump term on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying “a continuation of the Biden presidency would be a disaster for peace and prosperity at home and abroad” and stating “Liz’s hatred of Trump is real.”
Cheney, whose book “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning” releases Tuesday, also told NBC that she’ll decide whether to launch a presidential bid within the next couple months. The Iowa caucuses are Jan. 15.
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