Representative Liz Cheney slammed House of Representatives GOP whip Steve Scalise and blamed him for assisting an “attack” on the United States after a controversial interview over the weekend. 

Scalise, who is second in command in the House from the Republican side, repeatedly denied admitting that the 2020 Presidential elections were not “stolen” in an interview with Fox News.

While sharing an interview on Twitter, Cheney wrote, “Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American people that this is not true. Perpetuating the Big Lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic.”

Scalise, a lawmaker from Louisiana, dismissed the elections and continued to play down the legitimacy of the 2020 elections, which put Joe Biden in the White House earlier this year. 

He said, “I have been very clear from the beginning. If you look at a number of states, they did not follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president”, according to reports from Associated Press.

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Scalise added in the Fox interview, “That is what the United States Constitution says. They don’t say the states determine what the rules are. They say the state legislatures determine the rules.”

Cheney has acquired the reputation of being a critic of former United States President Donald Trump after the elections last year. The Wyoming lawmaker was ousted from her position of being the number 3 Republican in the House of Representatives.

She is also one of the 10 GOP lawmakers in the lower legislative house to vote in favour of impeaching the former President, who was accused of inciting violence in the Capitol complex on January 6 earlier this year.

Cheney  is serving on a House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection, on Sunday slammed Scalise for spreading Trump’s “Big Lie.”