White House on Liz Cheney: 'Disturbing' to see her attacked for speaking truth
WASHINGTON — The White House is alarmed over the GOP’s barrage of attacks on now former Republican conference leader Rep. Liz Cheney, casting its Wednesday morning ouster of the Wyoming lawmaker as “disturbing.”
“Our democracy was attacked and six people lost their lives,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki Wednesday afternoon during a press briefing. “It’s disturbing to see any leader, regardless of party, being attacked for simply speaking the truth. And as the president said last week, it is hard to understand.”
Cheney reignited GOP conflicts after condemning former President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that the November election was stolen from him as a result of widespread voter fraud — now commonly referred to by Democrats as “the Big Lie.”
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system,” Cheney wrote on Twitter in response to a recently released Trump statement once again asserting his claim.
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