Cheney weighs in on Trump’s legal woes: ‘Fundamental lack of character’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said Sunday that former President Trump’s string of legal problems shows a “fundamental lack of character.”

CNN host Jake Tapper has been criticized by a judge in a New York civil fraud case in which a judge ordered him to pay a fine of about $355 million last week, and a jury in a defamation case against author E. Jean Carroll last week. Cheney was asked about Trump’s recent lawsuits, including the one in which Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million. Month.

“And if you look at these cases and these verdicts and judgments, what they all have in common is a lack of willingness on the part of Donald Trump to abide by the law, a lack of commitment to the law. “The truth is, there is a fundamental lack of decency,” Cheney said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And one of the things that’s very disturbing about this political season is that, you know, people who were once good, honorable members of Congress have obviously clearly abandoned that need. In fact. “I will choose a man of character and honor and accept him in my place,” she continued.

Cheney criticized Trump over the Carroll decision, citing the Access Hollywood tape that surfaced just before the 2016 election as a reason why the decision was “not out of the ordinary.” A jury found Trump responsible for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s, an allegation Trump has repeatedly denied.

The total fines for the civil fraud case and the Carroll defamation case totaled a whopping $438.1 million. The fine in the civil fraud case, with interest, could exceed $500 million.

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.