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.

“And that's kind of an embarrassing thing if you're the guy on your knees.”
thehill.com/homenews/house…
“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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When McCarthy called Trump and said the Capitol was under siege, POTUS initially blamed Antifa, JHB says.

McC pushed back and said the rioters were Trump supporters.

“Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump replied.
.@HerreraBeutler told constituents during town hall that Trump’s call with McCarthy on 1/6 was “chilling”

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JHB also told her local paper, The Daily News, last month about the McCarthy/Trump call on 1/6.

“The President said, ‘Kevin, they’re not my people.’”

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.@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
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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
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"Over 2.3M women have been forced to leave the workforce entirely, including 1 million moms." cbsnews.com/news/covid-cri…
"Women's labor force participation rate is now just about 57 percent, the lowest level in 33 years.

"For women of color, the situation is even worse."
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