Liz Cheney says Trump is a threat to the nation, says Republicans cannot be loyal to him

WASHINGTON - Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump called himself a threat to the nation and said members of her party can't be loyal to him and the Constitution.

Cheney spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., as part of a Speaker Series focusing on leading voices in the conservative movement to address critical questions facing the future of the Republican Party. She said that they were confronting a domestic threat that they have never faced before. And that is a former president who is trying to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic, and aided by Republican leaders and elected officials who made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man. The Republican congresswoman, who serves as a ranking member of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election were more chilling and threatening than we imagined. She said that Republicans cannot be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution because they can't be loyal to the Constitution because of the reality that we face today as Republicans.

Cheney praised former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson for testifying publicly Tuesday before the Jan. 6 committee, saying that the young woman's superiors, many years older, are hiding behind executive privilege, anonymity and intimidation. She said little girls are seeing in Hutchinson what it really means to be a patriot, and that these days for the most part are not going well, a line that received rousing applause.