Liz Cheney rips House GOP leaders, claim they ‘enabled’ white supremacists

Liz Cheney accused Home GOP management of getting "enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism."
AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite

Rep. Liz Cheney tore into her observe Home Republicans Monday, accusing get together management of getting “enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism.”

“Historical past has taught us that what begins with phrases ends in far worse,” Cheney (R-Wyo.) tweeted lower than 48 hours after Saturday’s racially motivated bloodbath at a Buffalo grocery store. “@GOP leaders should surrender and reject these views and those that maintain them.” 

Cheney didn't name out particular members of Congress within the message, which she posted from her private Twitter account reasonably than her congressional web page.

Nonetheless, two Republican lawmakers — Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona — have prompted an outcry over their affiliation with white nationalist teams.

Officers arrive at scene at a Tops Pleasant Market after a mass capturing on Could 14, 2022 in Buffalo, New York.

John Normile/Getty Photos

A person is detained following a mass capturing within the parking zone of Tops grocery store.

BigDawg through REUTERS

FBI brokers take a look at bullet impacts in a Tops Grocery retailer in Buffalo, New York, on Could 15, 2022.

USMAN UKALIZAI/AFP through Getty Photos

In February of this yr, Greene delivered a keynote tackle at a convention that was hosted by famous white supremacist Nick Fuentes and was held reverse the Conservative Political Motion Convention in Orlando. Greene later claimed that she had not been conscious of Fuentes’ views, which embrace Holocaust denial and defenses of segregation.

Equally, Gosar attended Fuentes’ America First Political Motion Committee final yr and was later censured by the Home and stripped of his committee assignments after he posted a video depicting himself as an anime character assassinating far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and attacking President Biden.

Cheney’s publish got here nearly precisely one yr after she was ousted from her position as Home Republican Convention chair in favor of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) following Cheney’s repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump and his position in final yr’s Capitol riot.

Liz Cheney didn't name out particular members of Congress within the message.

Twitter

Home Minority Whip Steve Scalise of La., Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.

AP Picture/Alex Brandon

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Unwell., are the 2 Republicans serving on the Jan. 6 choose committee.

AP Picture/J. Scott Applewhite, File

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney is certainly one of two Republicans serving on the Home choose committee investigating that day’s occasions. Retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Unwell.) is the opposite.

In retaliation, Trump has thrown his assist behind Cheney’s GOP major challenger Harriet Hageman, who's hoping to disclaim Cheney a fourth Home time period.

Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Stefanik didn't instantly reply to The Publish’s requests for remark about Cheney’s publish.