Cheney, an imposing member of the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol uprising by Trump supporters, warned against falling into partisan attacks that could dismantle the country’s political fabric and urged her audience to go beyond politics. “My fellow Americans, we are on the brink of an abyss and we must retire,” said former Vice President Dick Cheney, 55, in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. “As the full picture unfolds with the Jan. 6 commission, it has become clear that the efforts overseen by Donald Trump were even more creepy and threatening than we could have imagined,” Cheney said. “We have to choose, because Republicans can not be loyal to Donald Trump and be loyal to the Constitution,” he said. “We must not elect people who are more loyal to themselves or to power than to our Constitution.” Opposing Trump, Cheney has become an outsider in a Republican party that easily hosts conservatives such as Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Bobbert, both ardent allies of Trump. Following the ousting of the party leadership in the US House of Representatives, a reprimand by the Republican National Committee and no longer recognized by her state party, Cheney faces a showdown with Trump in the 16 Republican Republican primary. of Wyoming. Trump has made it the main target of his campaign for revenge against his perceived Republican foes, and she is following in the polls Republican challenger Harriet Hageman. In a speech of applause and applause, Cheney praised the bravery of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who testified at a public hearing on Tuesday that Trump knew the crowd of supporters he had invited to Washington, D.C. assault rifles. when he urged them to march on the Capitol and tried unsuccessfully to join them. The mob invaded the Capitol in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. “Her superiors – men, many years older, many of them – are hiding behind executive privileges, anonymity and intimidation. “But her bravery and patriotism yesterday were terrible,” Cheney said. Hutchinson was a top aide to Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. She testified about her conversations with him and with former White House adviser Pat Shipolone, who has now been summoned by the committee. The Morning and Afternoon Newsletters are compiled by Globe editors, giving you a brief overview of the day’s most important headlines. Register today.
