LIZ CHENEY SAYS GOP FAST TURNING INTO TRUMP’S PUPPET PARTY

US Rep. Liz Cheney warned on Wednesday that her Republican Party is “at a turning point” as it prepares to try to remove her from leadership for rejecting former President Donald Trump’s false claims the election was stolen from him, Steve Holland and David Morgan reported for Reuters.

The No. 3 House Republican's warning came in an opinion column published in the Washington Post as top members of her party, including Trump and No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise, publicly endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik for Cheney's job as chair of the party's conference. A vote could come as early as next Wednesday.

"Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work - confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this," Cheney said in the column.

"The Republican Party is at a turning point, and Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution," Cheney said.

Trump flexed his muscles anew this week, releasing seven public statements in three days reiterating his false claims that President Joe Biden's 7 million vote margin of victory was the result of fraud, and attacking Republicans including Cheney and Senator Mitt Romney who rejected him.

Anti-Trump Republicans said the defeated president needs to have his head checked after he did not only lose the election but more than 60 court cases as well in which his lawyers presented zero evidence to prove Trump’s meathead claim.

“This is not good for the party, certainly not good for a party that has had problems with suburban women, educated women — to go at somebody because they’re speaking what most of them know is the truth,” said Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman who represented a district in suburban Virginia until she was swept out by the anti-Trump blue wave in 2018.

“Ronald Reagan, who is why I became a Republican, certainly allowed for dissent in his own party, and for people to be critical. I think it’s a very disturbing development,” she told the New York Times.

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