Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming reflected on the day when she and her Democratic colleagues may once again disagree with each other, a reference to her outspoken and often lonely position as one of the few Republicans to publicly admonish former President Donald Trump and serve commission investigating the January 6 riots at the Capitol.
“One of my Democratic colleagues told me recently that he looks forward to the day when he and I can see each other again,” Cheney said Wednesday during a speech at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. “Trust me, I share that sentiment.”
Just a day after the Jan. 6 committee heard exculpatory testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide, Cheney took the opportunity to make sharp remarks against Trump, calling him a “domestic threat” and about the current state of US politics.
“My fellow Americans, we are standing on the edge of a precipice and we must step back,” she said.
Cheney, who has represented Wyoming since 2017, was one of the few Republicans to come out against Trump and has since faced the wrath of her own party for doing so.
In May, House Republicans ousted Cheney from her role as conference chairman for rejecting Trump’s false election claims and linking the former president to the Jan. 6 riot. She was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting violence at the Capitol.
She is now one of two Republicans on the nine-seat select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots and serves as its vice chair.
In her speech, the Wyoming representative said that with her and Democrats at odds again, it would mean that the course of national politics would be adjusted.
“Because when we can once again disagree about substance and policy, that will mean that our politics have gotten right, that we’ve made a decision to reject anti-democratic forces, to reject toxicity, to reject some of the worst kinds of racism, bigotry and anti-Semitism that characterize too much of our politics today,” she said.
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