Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) believes former President Donald Trump's potential primary win and reelection will bring the United States closer to a "dictatorship."
Cheney said in a preview clip aired from her interview with CBS Sunday Morning that "he's told us what he will do." Her answer was in response to John Dickerson asking her, “You say, Donald Trump, if he is reelected, it will be the end of the republic. What do you mean?”
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"It’s very easy to see the steps that he will take. 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," Cheney said.
"One of the things that we see happening today is sort of sleepwalking into a dictatorship in the United States," Cheney continued.
Cheney's CBS interview focuses on her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, which she concludes by calling the defeat of Trump in the 2024 election "the cause of our time."
In the book, she recounts a moment on Jan. 6, 2021, when Republicans were being asked to sign sheets for electoral vote objections — one for each state the GOP was contesting, according to an excerpt obtained by CNN.
The former congresswoman, who served as vice chairwoman of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6, wrote that most Republican members knew “it was a farce” and “another public display of fealty to Donald Trump.”
“Among them was Republican Congressman Mark Green of Tennessee,” Cheney wrote, according to CNN. “As he moved down the line, signing his name to the pieces of paper, Green said sheepishly to no one in particular, ‘The things we do for the Orange Jesus.’”
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A spokesperson for Rep. Mark Green's (R-TN) office denied that the congressman made the "Orange Jesus" comment in a statement to CNN.
“Liz Cheney’s accusation is false. She and her publishers would know this had they reached out to Rep. Green or his office," Green's spokesperson said. "There was a large crowd in the cloak room that day and Congressman Green unequivocally denies making this comment.”