Sleepwalking Into A Dictatorship?

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Liz Cheney Doubles Down Against Trump: ‘Sleepwalking Into A Dictatorship’
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Former Rep. Liz Cheney warns that a potential reelection of former President Donald Trump could lead the United States closer to a dictatorship.

She believes that the Republicans in Congress have been co-opted and that the country is “sleepwalking into a dictatorship.”

Cheney’s concerns are detailed in her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” and are based on her experiences during the events of January 6, 2021. (Trending: Disgraced Democrat Sued For Sexual Assault)


John Dickerson said, “You say, Donald Trump, if he is re-elected, it will be the end of the Republic.”

“What do you mean?,” asked Dickerson.

“He’s told us what he will do. It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take,” answered Cheney.
“People who say, ‘Well, if he’s elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all of these checks and balances,’ don’t fully understand the extent to which the Republicans in Congress today have been co-opted,” she continued.


“One of the things that we see happening today is a sort of a sleepwalking into dictatorship in the United States,” alleged the former representative.

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Liz Cheney Describes Trump’s ‘Nauseating’ Jan. 6 Plans to Rachel Maddow
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12/04/23

Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney spoke with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC for the first time Monday to explain some key parts of her forthcoming book, Oath and Honor, which contains a dire warning of a second Trump administration and castigates any members of her party who want to usher it in.


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At one point, Cheney describes how, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, she felt that Trump allies’ schemes to overturn the result would eventually run their course, and then the president would concede.

“Each time I saw something come up, and I kept thinking—and I think a lot of us kept thinking—all right, look, he’s going to bring these court challenges but, of course, once the courts have ruled, he will concede and move on,” she told Maddow.
But even after lawsuits got tossed out of court one after another, Trump and some of his closest advisers and lawyers didn’t relent, she said.

“Each time we thought we were at an end, we weren’t really at an end,” she recalled. “I think this was probably the most chilling moment where it was suddenly real that this wasn’t just some sort of a PR effort to suggest that he hadn’t lost the election. There was a very real plan to stop us from counting legitimate electoral votes. And frankly, that realization and that recognition, it was nauseating because it was so scary."

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In her book, Cheney details the more than 60 lawsuits that were lost by Trump’s campaign or others filing in support of his cause, leading to the Jan. 6 insurrection. The former lawmaker warned Maddow that Trump, who faces felony indictments in Georgia and Washington, D.C. over his attempts to overturn the election, might not adhere to court rulings should he become president again.

“If we get into a situation where you have a president who is charged with ensuring that the laws are faithfully executed, who has just this awesome power…to determine whether or not this country is going to continue to be a republic, is going to continue to function as a nation of laws, when you have a president who is willing to go to war with the rule of law, to ignore the rulings of the courts if he doesn’t agree with them, that has the potential to unravel everything,” she said.

Cheney’s book comes out Tuesday.

Read more at The Daily Beast.