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12 May, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Freedom Caucus @RepKenBuck just told reporters he voted IN SUPPORT of Cheney:

“Liz Cheney was cancelled today for speaking her mind and disagreeing with the narrative that President Trump was putting forward”
Others who reportedly shouted out support for Cheney during the vote were Kinzinger and Tom Reed, who is retiring, lawmakers said.
In 1987, @RepKenBuck was the assistant minority counsel on the Iran-Contra investigation, working for Dick Cheney, then a Wyoming congressman.
@AlexGangitano on the Buck-Cheney connection rollcall.com/2018/09/14/the…
TOM REED STATEMENT: "While I will always be a proud Republican .... I intend to describe my affiliation and priority going forward as "AMERICAN."
REED just clarified to me he is NOT leaving the Republican Party or leaving the GOP Conference.
Freedom Caucus Republican says Liz Cheney was 'cancelled' thehill.com/homenews/house…

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11 May
NEW w/Lillis: CHENEY poised to become face of anti-Trump movement in GOP thehill.com/homenews/house…
“We must not be complicit in the former president’s lies,” @Liz_Cheney told @TheHill.

“Our oath to the Constitution imposes a duty to defend the foundations of our Republic from his unprecedented and ongoing assault.” thehill.com/homenews/house…
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“Everybody reconstitutes themselves,” @RepTimBurchett (R-Tenn.) told The Hill.

"I would absolutely think she would" run for the White House, he said. "People have very short memories in the political world. Never count anybody out in this game."
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10 May
.@GOPLeader McCarthy writes in letter to GOP colleagues:

"Having heard from so many of you in recent days, it’s clear that we need to make a change. As such, you should anticipate a vote on recalling the Conference Chair [Liz Cheney] this Wednesday."
McCarthy: "Despite the mainstream media working overtime against us, I believe we still have a great chance" to take back the House in 2022.

"Unfortunately, each day spent relitigating the past is one day less we have to seize the future."
McCarthy ahead of vote to oust Cheney: "We are a big tent party. We represent Americans of all backgrounds and continue to grow our movement by the day.

"And unlike the left, we embrace free thought and debate.
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6 May
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"
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5 May
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.'

"Now, McCarthy has changed his story."
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4 May
NEW w/@RealMikeLillis: Gender politics hound GOP in CHENEY drama

“If you cast the only woman out, do you want to put a white male in?”
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“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.

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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”

“The president was basically saying ‘nah, I’m OK with this’” as the Capitol was under attack, JHB said. chronline.com/news/as-impeac…
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.’”

“‘Yes they are, they just came through my windows and my staff is running for cover. Yeah, they’re your people. Call them off”
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