'Trump enablers': Liz Cheney hurls accusation of 'cowardice' at Mike Johnson
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) attacked her fellow Republicans on Monday when she appeared on The View with the co-hosts.
The day before the election, Cheney was on hand in an effort to convince voters to cast their ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
"I think I echo everyone: We owe you such a debt. Well done, and thank you," Sunny Hostin told her as they began their conversation.
They first addressed Trump's latest threats against Cheney, in which he called her a "war hawk" and said she should experience how it feels to have guns "trained at her face."
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Cheney said that this kind of rhetoric shows Trump's last-minute desperation.
"He knows what he's doing. He knows it's a threat meant to intimidate," said Cheney.
She noted that she's been talking to voters about Trump's failures on Jan. 6, 2021, and "he knows he has no defense" with them. So, his only option is to attack her to distract voters.
But it was former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin who asked about "Republican enablers."
"We think of people like [former Speaker] Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), [Speaker] Mike Johnson (R-LA), and [Minority Leader, Sen.] Mitchell McConnell (R-KY), who have heard the same words we've heard and seen the same actions and yet continue to make excuses, and after the comment against you, this weekend he talked about basically the press being shot at," said Griffin, referencing a comment he made at a rally Sunday night.
"Why do these people still defend him?" she asked. "And why do they have such a hard time taking his word seriously despite everything we've seen?"
Cheney said she doesn't think Trump would be as successful without "these enablers" who "sort of sane-wash the things he's saying."
"I think that it has really taught us a lot about some of the people that we've elected," Cheney continued. "It's taught us a lot about cowardice. "And look, I think that if you look at so many of the people who stood up, it has been young women, and it's been, you know, brave and courageous women and men ... willing to say, wait a minute, you know, I am not going to go down that path of defending him."
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