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Liz Cheney on Sunday hit back at former President Donald Trump’s call to suspend the Constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen – and laid down a challenge to his acolytes in the Republican Party.
‘Donald Trump believes we should terminate “all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the Constitution” to overturn the 2020 election,’ she tweeted.
‘That was his view on 1/6 and remains his view today.
‘No honest person can now deny that Trump is an enemy of the Constitution.’
Cheney is one of Trump’s loudest critics inside a Republican Party that shows signs of splitting over the former president’s increasingly outlandish public statements.
He has attracted criticism from senior Republicans over his decision to have dinner with Nick Fuentes, a notorious antisemite and white supremacist.
And on Saturday morning he triggered further outrage by taking to Truth Social to claim that a Twitter thread by journalist Matt Taibbi offered proof that the 2020 election was rigged.
Rep. Liz Cheney, a high-profile critic of Donald Trump, hit out at the former president after he demanded that parts of the Constitution covering election law be suspended. ‘No honest person can now deny that Trump is an enemy of the Constitution,’ she said
Cheney’s tweet also had an implicit challenge to members of her own party to disown Trump
‘A massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,’ he said.
A number of Republicans condemned the message, but many stopped short of denouncing Trump or saying that it should disqualify him from running for president
‘It is certainly not consistent with the oath that we all take,’ said Rep. Mike Turner. “I vehemently disagree with the statement that Trump has made.’
He made his comments on CBS’ Face the Nation and steered clear of saying that the remarks should disqualify him from the party nomination.
‘There is a political process that has to go forward,’ Turner said.
Rep. Dave Joyce said that he would support whoever won the nomination while skating around Trump’s comments.
‘He says a lot of things,’ Joyce said, adding that the president did not have the power to suspend the Constitution.
‘You have to take it in context … I can’t be really chasing every one of these crazy statements that come out about — from any of these candidates.’
Democrats were quick to condemn the comments.
The White House said attacks on the Constitution were ‘anathema to the soul of our nation.’
Even Elon Musk, who had cheered on Taibbi’s Twitter thread on Friday, poured cold water on Trump’s comments.
‘The Constitution is greater than any president,’ he tweeted. ‘End of story.’
Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, celebrated Matt Taibbi’s thread revealing internal moderation discussions, but blasted Trump’s demand to suspend the Constitution
Trump continues to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him as he campaigns for 2024
Elon Musk has shot down former President Donald Trump ‘s calls for ‘termination’ of election rules in the US Constitution after the release of Musk’s ‘Twitter Files’
Criticism has come at Trump from all sides of the political aisle, with the Biden administration going out of its way to respond Sunday.
‘You cannot only love America when you win,’ Bates said. ‘The American Constitution is a sacrosanct document that for over 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country.’
‘The Constitution brings the American people together – regardless of party – and elected leaders swear to uphold it. It’s the ultimate monument to all of the Americans who have given their lives to defeat self-serving despots that abused their power and trampled on fundamental rights.’
The Musk-dubbed ‘Twitter files’ show Twitter employees going back and forth trying to justify their censorship of the Hunter Biden story under the site’s hacked materials rules. It appears that many top officials at the platform were hesitant about whether Hunter Biden’s laptop was accessed through unscrupulous means.
Trump’s call came after Elon Musk presided over the release of internal Twitter communications related to a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop
He called on the federal government to investigate Twitter’s alleged censorship effort over its probe of handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home
Trump also called on his supporters to ‘take our country back’ in a late Saturday night post
Taibbi also provides screenshots showing Twitter employees complying with requests from the Biden campaign to take down certain links – a practice followed by both campaigns at the time.
Links sent by the Biden team allegedly included naked photos of Hunter Biden that would have been posted without his consent.
While Musk floated suggestions that Democrats could have aided in violating the First Amendment, in his reporting Taibbi points out that the Trump administration – in power at the time – made the same asks of Twitter.
Trump complained that the federal government should be investigating the alleged ‘corruption’ instead of the classified files he improperly took from the White House in January 2021, in another Truth Social post made just after midnight on Saturday.
‘Wow! That’s a really big story about Twitter and various forms of government Fraud including, specifically, Election Fraud. The same level of Fraud took place with the other Big Tech companies, if not even worse (if that’s possible?),’ Trump wrote.
President Joe Biden’s White House condemned Donald Trump on Saturday for calling for the ‘termination’ of the US Constitution
‘We are living in a VERY CORRUPT COUNTRY &, AS THEY ARE SAYING ALL OVER THE INTERNET, “NOTHING WILL BE DONE ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT & FBI ARE TOTALLY CORRUPT.” But they’ll keep investigating “boxes” that were legally & openly taken from the W.H.’
In an even earlier post made just before 11pm on Friday night, Trump called on his supporters to ‘take our country back’ as he set off on his increasingly angry rant over the Musk Twitter files.
‘I am glad that everyone is now seeing the light on what I have been saying loud and clear for the last two years, that the 2020 Presidential Election was rigged and stolen by a combination of Democrats, Big Tech, “law enforcement,” and other bad actors,’ the former president wrote.
‘Sadly, we have become a corrupt Country, perhaps one of the most corrupt anywhere in the world. We MUST right this horrible wrong, and take our Country back!’
