Liz Cheney derides personality cult around Donald Trump

US Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has condemned a "cult of personality around Donald Trump," describing it as "fundamentally antithetical."

Speaking to CBS’s Robert Costa in an interview released on Friday, Cheney said “there is absolutely a cult of personality around Donald Trump.”

“We have too many people now in the Republican Party who are not taking their responsibilities seriously, and who have pledged their allegiance and loyalty to Donald Trump. I mean it is fundamentally antithetical — it is contrary to everything conservatives believe to embrace a personality cult,” Cheney said, adding, “And yet that is what so many in my party are doing today.”

Cheney, who is vice chair and one of two Republicans sitting on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill attack, had voted to impeach Trump following the deadly riot.

The eight-member probe committee is headed by Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, who also heads the House Homeland Security Committee that has been looking into the Jan. 6 events.

Cheney was removed from her House Republican leadership position after her vote to impeach Trump.

In an interview with ABC, Cheney said she would do “everything necessary to make sure he (Trump) never gets anywhere close to the Oval Office again”.

ME