Liz Cheney urges GOP to choose between Donald Trump and US Constitution

House Select Committee panelist Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, blasted former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 US Presidential Elections and called on fellow GOP members to choose between loyalty to the former President and the US Constitution.

Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on Wednesday, Cheney warned against partisan attacks threatening American democracy, and said, “My fellow Americans, we stand at the edge of an abyss, and we must pull back.”

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“As the full picture is coming into view with the January 6 committee, it has become clear that the efforts Donald Trump oversaw and engaged in were even more chilling and more threatening than we could have imagined,” she added.

“We have to choose, because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and be loyal to the Constitution. We must not elect people who are more loyal to themselves, or to power, than they are to our Constitution,” the 55-year-old appealed.

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Cheney’s comments come at a time when she, despite being the voice of reason among Republicans, has become a pariah in the GOP after opposing Trump. Cheney faces Trump-backed Harriet Hageman in Wyoming’s primaries on August 16.

The comments also come in the backdrop of the ongoing hearings pertaining to the investigation into the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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Thus far, six live, televised hearings have been held to gather witness testimonies and evidence against the former President for his role in instigating the deadly riots in Washington DC, hearings that have led to explosive revelations by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and British documentary film-maker Alex Holder.

The hearings are expected to resume again in mid-July as House lawmakers will be on a break till July 12.