Liz Cheney Slaps Down Trump’s Try To Redefine 2020 Election As ‘THE BIG LIE’

Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 presidential election.

His refusal to acknowledge that reality, buttressed by his ― and his enablers’ ― countless mendacity about it and baseless makes an attempt to overturn it, culminated within the lethal Jan. 6 rebel on the U.S. Capitol, and Trump’s subsequent second impeachment.

Home managers summed all that up on the second impeachment trial with one phrase, repeated time and again. They described it as “the large lie.”

The shorthand appears to have been efficient, as a result of Trump is now making an attempt to assert it for himself and overwrite its which means with one he likes higher ― not not like what he did with the time period “faux information.” However Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the third highest-ranking Home Republican, retains reminding him that information matter.

“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney tweeted Monday, roughly an hour after Trump issued an announcement wherein he described the reputable 2020 election outcomes as “THE BIG LIE.”

“Anybody who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE,” Cheney continued, aping Trump’s use of all caps. These individuals are “turning their again on the rule of legislation, and poisoning our democratic system,” she wrote.

Cheney’s remark is noteworthy given her management position within the GOP and her sustained efforts to steer different Republicans away from Trump’s lie in regards to the election outcomes ― which have made her an outlier within the get together.

Her stance on Trump has put her at odds with a lot of her Republican colleagues, together with Home GOP Chief Kevin McCarthy (Calif.).

Republicans lashed out after President Joe Biden fist-bumped Cheney, together with at the very least 20 different individuals, within the Home chamber earlier than he addressed a joint session of Congress final week. Cheney stood her floor, citing the significance of civility in politics ― even amongst individuals who disagree.

“I disagree strongly w/ @JoeBiden insurance policies,” she tweeted afterward, “however when the President reaches out to greet me within the chamber of the US Home of Representatives, I’ll at all times reply in a civil, respectful & dignified means. We’re completely different political events. We’re not sworn enemies. We’re Individuals.”