Liz Cheney

Phyllis Schlafly wrote A Choice Not An Echo that was prophetic about the Trump/Never-Trumper struggle

Elizabeth “Liz” Cheney
U.S. Representative from Wyoming's At-Large Congressional District From: January 3, 2017 – present
Predecessor	Cynthia Lummis
Successor	Incumbent (no successor)
Information
Party	Republican(Disputed)
Spouse(s)	Philip Perry
Religion	Methodist

Elizabeth Lynne “Liz” Cheney (born July 28, 1966)^[1] is the outgoing At-Large representative of Wyoming, who unsuccessfully relied heavily on donations by California and other out-of-state liberals.^[2] Called the "Wicked Witch of the West" after the frightful villain in the Wizard of Oz, Cheney spent most of 2022 trying to get Donald Trump prosecuted for non-existent crimes.

Cheney was defeated in a landslide humiliation of 66-29% in her own primary on August 16, 2022.^[3] The following month this sore loser announced that she would campaign for Democrats against some Republicans, which she then did but she was so politically toxic that this boosted the pro-Trump candidacies of Kari Lake and others.

Cheney obtained an appointment by Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the partisan Pelosi Panel witchhunt investigating the January 6 Capitol protests after a bi-partisan panel had been voted down. Originally elected as a Republican, on May 12, 2021, Cheney was removed from her leadership position within the House GOP conference. The Republican Party of Wyoming voted in November 2021 to no longer recognize her as a Republican due to her persistent unjustified ranting against Donald Trump and his supporters.^[4] Cheney lost to her Trump-endorsed rival Harriet Hageman on Jan. 22, 2022 by a vote of 59-6 among GOP leaders in Wyoming.^[5] Liz Cheney is the neoconservative daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

In December 2021, Cheney violated basic standards of decency by releasing private text messages provided by Mark Meadows, and then Cheney misleadingly pretended they implicated President Trump when he was not even a sender or recipient of any of the texts. Cheney has gone on a rampage against Meadows and other Republicans, voting to hold Meadows and others in contempt for possible imprisonment.

Since 2017 she has pretended to represent Wyoming in Congress, despite not really living there. Cheney is an heir to a fortune garnered by her father Dick Cheney in $45 million paid to him by the globalist defense contractor Halliburton, as he advanced the neocon agenda prior to becoming Vice President.^[6] Her inflated view of herself may have resulted from her role occasionally filling in for Bill O'Reilly on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor.

Cheney opposed standing up against Democrat election fraud on Jan. 6, 2021, and espoused Leftist talking points demonizing President Trump and Trump supporters as "white supremacists" and "domestic terrorists."

Married to an attorney who is a partner at a wealthy liberal D.C. law firm, Cheney has served in the State Department as a senior Middle East advisor. A neoconservative and RINO, Cheney has attacked and opposed President Trump and many prominent conservatives using lamestream media agitprop to appease the D.C. establishment. After her election to Congress, she served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, but many prominent House Republicans and Wyoming constituents called on her to resign after her disgraceful siding with Dems in their unjustified second impeachment of President Trump. She even "quietly orchestrated a Washington Post op-ed by 10 living former defense secretaries cautioning that then-President Trump might attempt to politicize the military."^[7] As a result, she was removed from her leadership post by House Republicans in May 2021.^[8]

Capping more than a year of estrangement from conservatives and general failure, Cheney lost the GOP primary election to Hageman on August 16, 2022. Hageman's margin of victory over Cheney was nearly 40 points, one of the worst defeats for an incumbent politician in American history.^[9]

United States House of Representatives[edit]

Cheney raised $7 million for her 2022 reelection campaign, with only $202,980 of it from Wyoming.^[10]

2016 election[edit]

On February 1, 2016, Cheney announced her candidacy for the Wyoming at-large open seat vacated by Rep. Cynthia Lummis in the House of Representatives as a Republican. She won the primary and later general election held on November 8, 2016.^[11]

Opposition to Trump and conservatives[edit]

Following remarks by adamant conservative Steve King that were completely misconstrued by liberals and the MSM to falsely portray him as "racist",^[12] Cheney joined the establishment smears against him and called for his resignation.^[13][14] King quickly pushed back at Cheney's slanderous claims.^[15]

Cheney again attacked Rep. King in mid-August 2019 after he bluntly argued against only allowing abortions for children who were conceived out of rape,^[16] calling on him to resign. This was concurrent with other attacks against the representative, all of which misconstrued his obvious point and instead tried to portray him as a misogynist.^[17]

After libertarian Republican representative Thomas Massie forced a vote on a pork-filled coronavirus relief bill,^[18] angering many, Cheney donated to his primary opponent Todd McMurtry.^[19] Cheney later embarrassingly demanded McMurtry return campaign contributions after racist tweets of his surfaced.^[20] Massie, after handily winning his primary, called out Cheney for the failed attempt to oust him.^[21]

Cheney defended and praised entrenched fraud Anthony Fauci after he was rebuked by Sen. Rand Paul.^[22][23]

At a House GOP conference held on July 21, 2020, Cheney faced massive criticism from the more conservative, pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus, whose members called her out on mere lip service to Trump and conservative causes.^[24] In the closed-door meeting, she sparred with several anti-establishment movement conservatives including Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Chip Roy; Gaetz later called for Cheney to resign from her position. Roy reportedly had called out the Wyoming representative for being highly supportive of Fauci, and others criticized her for backing fiscal conservative Thomas Massie's primary challenger. President Trump soon called out Cheney, tweeting that she "is only upset because I have been actively getting our great and beautiful Country out of the ridiculous and costly Endless Wars."^[25]

A neoconservative and hawkish backer of perpetual war, Cheney worked with liberal anti-Trump Democrats in early July 2020 to undermine President Trump's plans to withdraw troops from the Middle East.^[26]

Following heavy election fraud in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Cheney in late November 2020 called for Trump to concede.^[27] She later sent a memo to other House Republicans in opposition to objecting to the Biden electors.^[28] After a largely peaceful protest organized by Trump supporters in the U.S. Capitol where a small mob likely comprised partly of Antifa infiltrators and paid protesters violently broke into the Capitol building, Cheney absurdly blamed Trump for the breaking and entering, saying: "There’s no question the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob. He lit the flame."^[29]

Based upon Cheney's unreasonable support of Trump's second impeachment, more than 115 members of the U.S. House favor removing Cheney as chair of the House GOP Conference, over half of the conference no longer supports her. These Republican members want to express no confidence in Cheney’s leadership.^[30][31] Andy Biggs and Matt Rosendale are promoting a petition to hold a special conference meeting so that a debate and a vote be held on a resolution calling on Cheney to resign. Cheney survived the 2021 closed-door vote reportedly by a 145–61 tally.^[32]

Based upon her unreasonable support of Trump's second impeachment, Wyoming state Senator Anthony Bouchard has announced a primary challenge to Cheney in 2022.^[33] The Wyoming Republican Party voted on February 6, 2021, to censure Cheney for voting to impeach Trump. The vote was overwhelming, only eight members out of 74 members of the state party's central committee opposed the censure.^[34] Over the next several months, other members of the House GOP leadership began distancing themselves from the Quisling, and on May 12, the caucus voted to remove her as chair. Afterwards, Cheney remained defiant, claiming, without evidence, that Trump lacked "dedication to the Constitution," and vowing she would do everything in her power to prevent him from winning a third election as President.^[35]

2022 Congressional primary[edit]

After being booted from the Wyoming Republican Party, Cheney ran again in the 2022 GOP Congressional primary. Cheney received the endorsement of NFL Hall of Famer accused of murdering his ex-wife O.J. Simpson,^[36] and actively courted other Democrats to switch party registration and vote in the Republican primary. Ironically, Cheney ran on a platform claiming that she was "protecting democracy." Cheney was buried in a nearly 40 point loss to Republican Harriet Hageman, the largest primary defeat of an incumbent in this century.

Eagle Forum Position[edit]

During August, 2018, the Eagle Forum praised Cheney’s dedication to conservative policies and her approval for the Pres. Trump’s pro-life agenda on issues such as Title X reform and other policies. ^[37]

On May 13, 2021, the Eagle Forum commended House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans for ousting Liz Cheney from her position as Chair of the Republican Conference. Eagle Forum President Colleen Holcomb was quoted as saying: “Disagreements about political issues are inevitable and should not disqualify legislators from leadership, but when Liz Cheney blamed the violence and lawlessness of a few rogue actors on President Trump and the thousands of law-abiding Americans who gathered at the Capitol on January 6th to peacefully protest widespread election irregularities, she broke faith with the grassroots of her Party and disqualified herself from leadership.” ^[38]

Family[edit]

Cheney is married to Phillip Perry. Perry is a Partner at Latham & Watkins, a law firm with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. Latham & Watkins describes itself as “advising” the technology firm Tencent on its investment in an American company. Tencent has been described by the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation as a “tool of the Chinese government,” noting the company has “no meaningful ability to tell the Chinese Communist Party ‘no’ if officials decide to ask for their assistance.” It provides “a foundation of technology-facilitated surveillance and social control” as part of the CCP’s broader crusade “to shape the world consistent with its authoritarian model,” the State Department report adds. Amnesty International rated Tencent’s data encryption capabilities zero out of 100, noting it hadn’t “stated publicly that they will not grant government requests to backdoor.”

On January 31, 2021, Latham & Watkins boasted that it successfully “persuaded” the U.S. government to lift Trump-era sanctions on state-owned China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (COSCO). COSCO is a controversial, Shanghai-based logistics company labeled as a “thinly veiled arm of the Chinese military” by a task force of the U.S. House of Representatives. Eleven of its 13 executives boast of high-level CCP affiliations on COSCO’s website. Latham & Watkins also employs as one of Perry's fellow Partners, Hui Xu, whose bio describes him as previously working for China’s Ministry of Commerce where he handled trade remedy, intellectual property, and World Trade Organization matters. The firm also tracks legislative developments in the CCP, often praising the regime’s “vigorous” environmental laws, even noting “President Xi’s announcement signals a renewed effort to improve the fragmented political infrastructure of environmental governance in China.” Latham & Watkins has also praised China’s Five-Year Plans for its “increased focus on climate change and a more open trade environment.”^[39]

Books[edit]

In My Time (2011) with Dick Cheney.
Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Strong America (2015) with Dick Cheney.

Quotes[edit]

"I would not," Cheney told Fox News' Neil Cavuto when she was asked if she would support President Trump if he ran in 2024.^[40]

"When we stop fighting before our enemies are defeated, that's not ending wars. That's losing wars." (January 20, 2015).

"When will media ask Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton key question for 2016—Knowing what we know now, would you still have abandoned Iraq?" (May 17, 2015).

"All that is wrong with the Iran Deal stems from two fundamental facts: America can't trust Iran and America can't trust Barack Obama." (July 16, 2015).

"ISIS attacks Paris hours after Barack Obama claims he has 'contained' them, just like he 'defeated' al Qaeda and 'ended the war' in Iraq." (November 13, 2015).

"#Kaepernick won't have to worry much longer about standing for our National Anthem. With his stats, he'll be playing in Canada soon." (August 30, 2016).

"@POTUS refusal to veto UN resolution against Israel is latest shameful chapter in Obama presidency. US has no stronger ally than Israel." (December 23, 2016).

"Same day @POTUS shamefully commutes Manning sentence, we learn he also freed Bin Laden bodyguard from GTMO." (January 17, 2017).

"Hi @RandPaul I know the 2016 race was painful for you since you were such a big loser (then & now) with a dismal 4.5% in Iowa. No surprise since your motto seems to be “Terrorists First, America Second.”" (September 12, 2019).

See also[edit]

• Adam Kinzinger
• Steve Stivers

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Campaign Website
• House Website
• Profile at Ballotpedia