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Liz Cheney says Donald Trump's 'dictator' remark should be taken 'literally and seriously'
ABC News / Disney ^ | December 8, 2023 | ByAlexandra Hutzler

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; cheney; cheneycrimefamily; coupaccomplice; drillbabydrill; energy; halliburtonwhore; lection2024; lizardcheney; moronicdem; rinosedition; shesrightyouknow
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The current coordinated campaign to paint Trump as planning a dictatorship completely lacks credibility. If Trump declared himself dictator the woke senior officers of the Obama/Biden military leadership would arrest him with the applause of the media, 100% of Democrats in Congress and most of the RINO GOP members of Congress.

Given the woke orientation of the military leadership, the FBI, the intelligence agencies, Congressional Democrats, much of the federal judiciary, the media, the government bureaucracy, and corporate boardrooms the odds of Joe Biden successfully declaring himself a dictator, and functioning as one, are much higher than Trump’s chance for success. In fact the greatest peril to “our democracy” may be a Trump victory on election night 2024 followed by Biden and the Congressional Democrats declaring a national emergency, nulliffying the election and suspending the Constitution, perhaps followed by the installation of Gavin Newsom as dictator for the “length of the current national emergency.”


41 posted on 12/09/2023 9:04:06 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on )
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To: Obadiah

“Liz Cheney is like that crazy homeless lady on the street who is gesturing wildly and randomly shouting nonsense to no one in particular.”

Trump’s truth trumps Biden’s bald face lies, Cheney’s too for that matter.


42 posted on 12/09/2023 9:04:12 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Right Brother

All too true. I would make the distinction that being a kook is the source of Liz Cheney’s rottenness. It would have been far better for all if Liz’s kookery had led simply to her stuffing her house with cats, Hummel figurines, and collections of decorative spoons.


43 posted on 12/09/2023 9:04:27 AM PST by Rockingham (`)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Liz, sweetheart, nobody cares what you have to say. The good patriots of Wyoming have spoken and the only thing I can discern is that they don’t like you very much. How badly did you lose your primary anyway? If memory serves, it was about 25 to 75. Think of it this way darling, you have more time to go quail hunting with your Daddy, just don’t get downrange or you’re liable to get a face full of number 8 birdshot.


44 posted on 12/09/2023 9:04:56 AM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She did not want to address his closing the border and drill baby drill.


45 posted on 12/09/2023 9:05:30 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Biden Junta ignores unfavorable Court decisions, and does what they’ve been told is not permissible.


46 posted on 12/09/2023 9:21:54 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

13 more months and the mass executions begin.

Treachery comes with a price. Lizard and Kinzinger know what’s coming. Their fates are sealed. They will not escape the punishment headed their way.

I hope Emperor Trump holds a raffle for the lucky citizen to be an executioner for a day. It’s going to be glorious.


47 posted on 12/09/2023 9:23:24 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Rappini

“ Thanks to idiot Hannity.”

What?!


48 posted on 12/09/2023 9:25:31 AM PST by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liz Cheney just another Hillary wind up doll.


49 posted on 12/09/2023 9:28:06 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So dictator for a day then.


50 posted on 12/09/2023 9:31:45 AM PST by pas
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In other words:

How dare Donald Trump threaten to use the exact same rules we are using against him, against us if re-elected.


51 posted on 12/09/2023 9:33:54 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

Doesn’t Lying Liz know America stopped believing anything Cheney says a long time ago.

Big Mistake, Liz. Big. huge. Like your mouth


52 posted on 12/09/2023 9:38:33 AM PST by SteelPSUGOP
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You guys will hate me for supporting Gov. DeSantis, but I will say this. If Donald J. Trump again becomes President and strings up a bunch of deep staters, I would be very happy to know that is happening.

The tree should be watered....

53 posted on 12/09/2023 9:38:46 AM PST by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liz, STFU and go away. Take that “literally and seriously”.


54 posted on 12/09/2023 9:47:11 AM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WILL SOMEONE-—ANYONE -—PLEASE 51-50 this woman???


55 posted on 12/09/2023 9:53:46 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: BrexitBen

Just look at her face. She looks terrified. Will say anything to prevent her lies from being exposed.


56 posted on 12/09/2023 9:53:48 AM PST by FES0844
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This us fast becoming a clown show.


57 posted on 12/09/2023 10:06:01 AM PST by kempster (w President of all time.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She's right. This is serious stuff. Just like when Trump attacked the secret service...No joke.


58 posted on 12/09/2023 10:07:30 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’s a fool, and a liar.


59 posted on 12/09/2023 10:11:55 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She smells like desperation


60 posted on 12/09/2023 10:17:01 AM PST by SMARTY ("A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Tennyson)
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