Former Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who has been shunned by former President Trump's allies, called House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R.N.Y.) a “total freak” in an online post Tuesday. called.
Cheney was the leader of the investigation into the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. I posted a link Stefanik previously released a statement condemning the mob that stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of President Biden over Trump in 2020.
“One day she will have to explain how and why she became a total freak,” Cheney wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. She said, “History and our children are worth knowing.”
Stefanik replaced Cheney in the House Republican leadership after she was fired for voting to impeach Trump over his role in the January 6 attack. It came in 4th place.
Mr. Trump announced his support for Mr. Cheney's primary challenger in the 2022 midterm cycle, and Mr. Cheney lost the election.
Stefanik, once seen as a moderate in the House of Representatives, is now seen as a leading candidate to be Trump's running mate if he secures the Republican nomination. She has been campaigning in recent weeks, aggressively defending him from his critics.
This week, she appeared to confuse former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the 77-year-old President Trump's only rival for the Republican ticket, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. He denied the report. event. He falsely claimed that Haley was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6 and was responsible for destroying evidence that day.
“The reality is that Nikki Haley, like Nancy Pelosi, is leaning on the Democratic Party to put on a desperate performance,” Stefanik said, without directly addressing the apparent chaos during Trump's campaign this week. told.
In a book published in December, Cheney wrote that Stefanik had been a “reasonable and thoughtful” congressman but “has undergone a dramatic transformation into a Trump sycophant.”
In a statement posted to Congress, Stefanik called January 6, 2021, “a truly tragic day for America.” Website That day.that remains online.
“I completely condemn the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred at the U.S. Capitol today,” she said in a statement. “Americans have a constitutional right to protest and freedom of speech, but violence in any form is completely unacceptable and anti-American.
“The perpetrators of this un-American violence and destruction must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” she added.
A year later, on the anniversary of the attack, Stefanik posted a statement Her focus shifted to then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and security at the Capitol.
“One year later, Americans still don't have answers about why the Capitol was left so vulnerable and how to ensure this never happens again,” he said in a statement. It is unacceptable.”
In a Jan. 7 “Meet the Press” interview, Stefanik echoed Trump's comments, calling prisoners arrested for their alleged roles in the break-in “hostages.”
Stefanik's office did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment about Cheney's remarks and the apparent change in tone regarding what happened during the storming of the Capitol.
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