QUOTE OF THE WEEK: The men attacking Cheney are “on their knees for Trump and she's standing up for herself,” Cheney ally @BarbaraComstock tells @TheHill.
“The women don't get the same slack that the men get," says @BarbaraComstock, who believes there is a double standard at play bc Cheney is a woman.
“And I think a lot of the men are attacking her because they resent that she's got guts and they don't.”
"I promise you there will be consequences” for ousting Cheney, @MeghanMcCain warned on "The View."
“Go ahead in this sausage-fest of MAGA up on Capitol Hill. Pull her out and put another woman in who will do and say anything ... for President Trump"
.@BarbaraComstock: “Woe to the woman who's going to be the handmaiden to what is basically a male assault on [Cheney], and has been from the start.” thehill.com/homenews/house…
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CHENEY in WaPo op-ed: The GOP "is at a turning point, and Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution" washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Cheney: "The question before us now is whether we will join Trump’s crusade to delegitimize and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election ... I have worked overseas in nations where changes in leadership come only with violence"
CHENEY calls out McCARTHY: On the House floor on Jan. 13, "McCarthy said: 'The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.'
“It will be Elise or Jackie" who will replace Cheney, one plugged-in, senior House Republican told The Hill, citing the need to have a woman at the leadership table.
.@RepTedLieu pointing out that key former Trump officials --- Mattis, John Kelly, Bolton, Mulvaney, McMaster & Farah -- blamed Trump for fomenting violence at the Capitol on 1/6
Lieu puts quote up on screen from Trump's Transpo Sec Elaine Chao, who resigned from Cabinet over the 1/6 attack.
She just happens to be wife of Mitch McConnell
Lieu says he's not afraid of Trump running for president again. He's afraid of Trump losing the presidency again and provoking another attack on Capitol