Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney condemned Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel for failing to denounce former President Donald Trump’s remarks over Veterans Day weekend, when he compared political enemies on the left to vermin.
“When @GOPChairwoman refuses to condemn the GOP’s leading candidate for using the same Nazi propaganda that mobilized 1930s-40s Germany to evil, it’s fair to assume she’s collaborating. History will judge Ronna McDaniel and every Republican who is appeasing this dangerous man,” Cheney, a Republican, posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday morning.
When @GOPChairwoman refuses to condemn the GOP’s leading candidate for using the same Nazi propaganda that mobilized 1930s-40s Germany to evil, it’s fair to assume she’s collaborating. History will judge Ronna McDaniel and every Republican who is appeasing this dangerous man. https://t.co/f4MMPoreFc
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) November 13, 2023
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Trump rallied against his political opponents during a two-hour speech at Stevens High School in Claremont, New Hampshire, on Saturday, which he later quoted on his social platform Truth Social, pledging to “root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and radical left thugs that live like vermin” in the United States.
When asked about Trump’s comments on Sunday, McDaniel told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s Meet the Press that she is “not going to comment on candidates and their campaign messaging.”
“I will say this: I know President Trump supports the veterans,” McDaniel said. “Our whole party supports our veterans. And I do think we’re at a very serious moment in our country.”
Last month, Cheney did not rule out a run for president in 2024, citing the dangers of a second Trump term.
“I will tell you what I’m definitely going to do,” Cheney said on CNN’s State of the Union in October. “I’m going to spend the next year, between now and the election, certainly helping to elect serious people, helping to elect sane people to Congress.”
In 2022, Cheney was ousted in the Wyoming primary by a Trump-backed challenger, with many accrediting her loss to her rebuttal of Trump in 2021, when she and nine other House Republicans voted to impeach him following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The remarks by Trump, the Republican front-runner, sparked sharp criticism from his rivals. The Biden reelection campaign released a statement Monday expressing similar dissent, with spokesman Ammar Moussa saying: “On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation’s heroes, Donald Trump parroted the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini — two dictators many U.S. veterans gave their lives fighting.”
The Biden White House also responded to Trump’s speech, saying: “Terms like that about dissent would be unrecognizable to our founders, but horrifyingly recognizable to American veterans who put on their country’s uniform in the 1940s.”
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The Trump campaign criticized those trying to connect the former president’s speech to the likes of dictators, writing in a statement to the Washington Examiner, “Those who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their sad, miserable existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to the RNC for comment.
