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Wyoming GOP Censures Liz Cheney For Voting To Impeach Trump
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Feb 07, 2021 01:16pm |
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| Author | John Ruwitch and Barbara Sprunt |
| News Date | Sunday, February 7, 2021 06:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Wyoming Republican Party voted Saturday to censure Rep. Liz Cheney and also asked her to resign for her vote last month to impeach then-President Donald Trump after the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
On Sunday, Cheney defended her decision.
"I think that the people in the party are mistaken. They believe that [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa were behind what happened here at the Capitol. That's just simply not the case, it's not true," she told Fox News Sunday about the censure, in which just eight of the party central committee's 74 members opposed the resolution.
Evidence and arrests thus far have shown it was largely far-right groups and pro-Trump extremists who planned and carried out the Capitol attack.
"People have been lied to," Cheney added. "The extent to which President Trump, for months leading up to Jan. 6, spread the notion that the election had been stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie, and people need to understand that."
Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, was one of 10 members of her party who voted to impeach Trump for an unprecedented second time. She has come under fire from Trump loyalists for siding with Democrats in the impeachment. |
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