While Trump has his claws in the great majority of Republican legislators, a few -- Mitt Romney among them -- are willing to speak up to defend Liz Cheney.
A Representative from Wyoming and the daughter of a former vice president, Cheney has been adamant in refusing to go along with Trump's lies about how he "really" won the 2020 election. While I admire her guts, it's liable to cost her her leadership position as #3 among House Republicans.
The second Cheney supporter is Adam Kinziger of Illinois. On Face the Nation on CBS yesterday, he called on his fellow Republicans to "Tell people the truth and quit peddling in conspiracies, because that's what we've seen in this party." Words like that, it seems, are enough to make Trump shriek for revenge.
"What the reality is as a party, we have to have an internal look and a full accounting as to what led to January 6," the Illinois Republican said. "Right now, it's basically the Titanic. We're like in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck, telling everybody it's fine, and meanwhile as I've said, Donald Trump is running around trying to find women's clothing to get on the first lifeboat."
He continued, "I think there's a few of us saying, 'Guys, this is not good, not just for the future of the party, but this is not good for the future of this country.'"
Let's hope that the "few of us" number more than two!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/adam-kinzinger-liz-cheney-gop-peddling-in-conspiracies-face-the-nation/?fbclid=IwAR2ahtYTQYRvYELnkIOIxkYdo7Na6GHwWJB2VyuQfVLAauyJAS47C89bRm4
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