Republican US representative Liz Cheney delivered a fiery speech to call out Donald Trump and GOP leaders at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Wednesday night, receiving thunderous applause from the audience.
Ms Cheney, who is the vice-chair of the House committee investigating the 6 January riots, said Mr Trump’s efforts have turned out to be “more chilling and more threatening” than first imagined.
“Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution,” she said, to a round of applause.
As her panel subpoenaed Trump’s White House counsel Pat Cipollone, whose resistance to Mr Trump’s false claims was once again detailed at this week’s bombshell hearing with former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson, the Wyoming congresswoman warned that in Donald Trump, Americans are confronting a “domestic threat” like nothing seen before.
Meanwhile, former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has revealed a text exchange she had with Melania Trump during the 6 January attack, showing the then-first lady refusing to tweet a condemnation of the violence unfolding on Capitol Hill.
