Liz Cheney blames GOP “enablers and collaborators” for ‘dangerous’ Donald Trump as CNN reports details of her new book

Liz Cheney’s new book is a damning portrait of Republican “enablers and collaborators” responsible for Donald Trump’s continued grip on the party, CNN reported Tuesday.

With Cheney’s Oath and honor Appearing next week, CNN’s Jamie Gangel received an advance copy and described it as an “unbiased” look at her former GOP colleagues. Cheney was pushed out of the Republican leadership because he continued to criticize Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“You get face-to-face meetings, Republican rallies,” Gangel said of Jake Tappers ResponsibleShe added that Cheney said she received a proxy call from Trump on January 4, 2021, where she learned “the hard concrete planning” for January 6.

That day, before the attack on the Capitol, Cheney said he was in the Republican House locker room and members were asked to sign objection forms against the electoral vote. Many members knew it was a “hoax”, and one member, Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), signed his name and told no one in particular, “The things we do for Orange Jesus,” Cheney wrote.

Cheney also wrote that then-House Republican Party Chairman Kevin McCarthy told her two days after the election that he had spoken with Trump and that “he knows it’s over.” He goes through all the stages of grief.” Cheney also wrote that she had a conversation with Mike Johnson, then a relatively unknown congressman from Louisiana, about his pressure on members to join a legal brief alleging that the election results of four states won by Joe Biden , must be discarded.

“When I confronted him about flaws in his legal arguments, Johnson often gave in or said something along the lines of, ‘We have to do this one last time for Trump,'” Cheney wrote, according to CNN.

Johnson was elected speaker of the House of Representatives in October, succeeding McCarthy after his impeachment. The new speaker has since endorsed Trump in the 2024 race.

Cheney lost the Republican primary in her re-election campaign last year, while McCarthy and other Republicans campaigned for her opponent. By then, Cheney had taken a seat on the committee as vice chairman on January 6, joining Adam Kinzinger as one of only two GOP members.

In the book, Cheney also recalled how some Republicans mocked McCarthy for his trip to Mar-a-Lago in the weeks after the attack on the Capitol and after Trump left the presidency. She wrote that she confronted McCarthy about the visit, which was a first step in restoring Trump’s popularity within the Republican Party.

McCarthy, Cheney wrote, told her he was visiting because Trump’s team was “really concerned” about him. “Trump doesn’t eat, so they asked me to come see him,” McCarthy said.

But some Republicans were angered by McCarthy’s visit and circulated a text message with a photo of McCarthy and Trump and the clip of Jerry Maguirewhen Tom Cruise’s title character tells Renee Zellweger’s Dorothy Boyd, “You complete me.”

In the book, Cheney calls Trump “the most dangerous man ever to sit in the Oval Office” and writes: “We cannot survive a president who is willing to end our Constitution.”

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement: “Liz Cheney is a loser who is now lying to sell a book that should either be in the discount bin in the fiction section of the bookstore or as toilet paper should be reused.” nothing more than completely made up stories because President Trump is the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination and the strongest candidate to defeat Crooked Joe Biden. Liz is clearly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and needs to deal with the underlying issues in her personal life.

Spokesmen for Green and McCarthy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.