Former Wyoming Representative Lynn Cheney: CBS NEWS
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney says that voters have become increasingly numb to politicians warning of looming dangers to democracy, so in her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” she lays out the case for the threats to the Constitution posed by Donald Trump should he regain the White House.
Cheney talks with John Dickerson for “CBS Sunday Morning” about how the leading Republican candidate’s own words reveal his plans for a second term, and why she believes blocking Trump and preventing a Republican House majority in the next election is “the cause of our time.”
Cheney says that if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States again it will mean the end of the republic, and expresses alarm at how comfortable her party has become with the man and his lies.
In an interview about her career, Trump’s White House run, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, she holds nothing back.
“He’s told us what he will do. It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take,” she said.
People who say, “Well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances,” she said, don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been “co-opted.”
“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” she says unequivocally, even admitting that Trump uses tactics of fascism to try to gain power like tyrants and dictators he admires in other countries.
Watch the preview clip here, and read some excerpts below:
JOHN DICKERSON: You say, Donald Trump, if he is re-elected, it will be the end of the Republic. What do you mean?
REP. LIZ CHENEY: If you look at what Donald Trump is trying to do, he can’t do it by himself. He has to have collaborators. And the story of Mike Johnson is a story of, of a collaborator and of someone who knew then – and knows now – that what he’s doing and saying is wrong, but he’s willing to do it in an effort to please Donald Trump. And that’s what makes it dangerous.
DICKERSON: The Speaker of the House is a collaborator to overthrow the last election?
CHENEY: Absolutely.
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