Disgraced and currently irrelevant former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney has called President Donald Trump “the single most dangerous threat to the US.”
In a recent interview, when asked about the upcoming 2024 race for the White House, Cheney said that the former president is “the single most dangerous threat” the US faces as he seeks a return to the Oval Office.
“He cannot be the next president because if he is, all of the things that he attempted to do but was stopped from doing by responsible people … he will do,” Cheney – the daughter of former congressman, defense secretary, and vice-president Dick Cheney – said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “There will be no guardrails. And everyone has been left warned.”
Cheney was a long-time moderate Republican and daughter of once-party leader Vice President Dick Cheney, yet her unbridled opposition to Trump cost her a congressional seat she held for six years and the respect of the powerful MAGA wing of the GOP.
Despite Cheney’s fiery and mostly irrelevant comments and an array of legal troubles, Donald Trump maintains substantial polling leads in the race to clinch the Republican nomination for the 2024 presidential election.
Cheney’s evaluation of Trump as a threat no doubt comes from her conclusions drawn as vice-chair of the House January 6th Committee, where she recommended criminal charges against the former president for his alleged role in the Capitol uprising.
“After January 6 … there can be no question that he will unravel the institutions of our democracy,” Cheney said, alluding to Trump supporters’ desperate but unsuccessful attack to prevent the certification of Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 race. “So we are facing a moment in American politics where we have to set aside partisanship, and we have to make sure that people who believe in the constitution are willing to come together to prevent him from ever again setting foot anywhere near the Oval Office.”
The House Capitol attack committee’s recommendation was one of Cheney’s last congressional acts before she was forced out of office in January. She lost her bid to be re-elected to Wyoming’s sole House seat she had held since 2017 after Trump successfully supported Harriet Hageman’s run against her in a Republican primary.