怀俄明州罗林斯——怀俄明州共和党周六以压倒性多数投票谴责美国众议员利兹·切尼投票弹劾总统唐纳德·特朗普因为他在1月6日美国国会大厦暴乱中扮演的角色。
在由74名成员组成的共和党中央委员会中，只有8人反对不信任投票，投票没有进行正式计数。谴责文件指责切尼投票弹劾，尽管美国众议院没有向特朗普提供“正式听证或正当程序”。
“我们需要尊重特朗普总统。特朗普总统所做的只是呼吁和平集会，并抗议公平和经审计的选举选举在2016年共和党美国众议院初选中输给切尼的夏延律师达林·史密斯说共和党需要引起她的注意。"
举行不信任投票的碳县共和党主席乔伊·科伦迪补充说:“人民的声音重要吗？如果重要，它只在投票箱里重要吗？”
切尼一再表示，她凭良心投票支持弹劾暴乱，此前特朗普举行了一次集会，鼓励支持者摆脱“对世界不利的丽兹·切尼”的立法者。
切尼在1月13日弹劾投票前的一份声明中说，特朗普非但没有领导和平示威，反而“召集了这群暴徒，聚集了这群暴徒，点燃了这次袭击的火焰”。
在州共和党投票后的一份声明中，切尼说她仍然很荣幸代表怀俄明州，并将永远为对该州最重要的问题而战。
“其中最重要的是捍卫我们的宪法及其保障的自由。切尼说:“我对宪法的宣誓迫使我投票弹劾。
共和党官员说，他们邀请了切尼，但她没有出席。一把标有“切尼代表”的空椅子坐在会议室的前面。
这次不信任投票是切尼与九名共和党代表和美国众议院所有民主党人一起投票弹劾的最新报复。切尼以近70%的支持率赢得第三个任期仅三个月，就已经在2022年面临至少两个共和党初选对手。
他们包括共和党州参议员安东尼·布查尔德，一位来自夏延的枪支权利活动家，他出席了会议，但没有在发言人之列。史密斯还表示，他正在考虑是否再次竞选国会议员。
1月28日，佛罗里达州的美国共和党众议员马特·盖兹(Matt Gaetz)在怀俄明州国会大厦前领导了一场反对切尼的集会。大约有1000人参加，其中许多人举着呼吁弹劾切尼的标语，尽管有几个人表示支持。
然而，在众议院共和党人周三以145票对61票决定保留她作为会议委员会主席后，切尼仍将是众议院共和党领导层的第三名成员。
特朗普周二将在美国参议院面临审判，罪名是涉嫌煽动叛乱，在特朗普和亲密盟友领导的附近集会后，一群支持者冲进国会大厦并在国会大厦横冲直撞。
责难的反对者主要来自怀俄明州第二大城市卡斯珀，以及大提顿和黄石国家公园附近的杰克逊霍尔地区。
“让我们抵制这种左翼取消文化的灌输，以试图谴责和摆脱任何我们不同意的人，”提顿县共和党的亚历山大·穆罗姆塞说。
几周来，谴责的势头一直在增长，怀俄明州23个县中约12个县的当地共和党人通过了自己的决议，批评她的弹劾投票。
Wyoming GOP censures Rep. Liz Cheney over impeachment vote
RAWLINS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Saturday to censure U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for voting to impeach President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Only eight of the 74-member state GOP's central committee stood to oppose censure in a vote that didn't proceed to a formal count. The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach even though the U.S. House didn't offer Trump “formal hearing or due process.”
“We need to honor President Trump. All President Trump did was call for a peaceful assembly and protest for a fair and audited election," said Darin Smith, a Cheyenne attorney who lost to Cheney in the Republican U.S. House primary in 2016. “The Republican Party needs to put her on notice."
Added Joey Correnti, GOP chairman in Carbon County where the censure vote was held: "Does the voice of the people matter and if it does, does it only matter at the ballot box?”
Cheney has said repeatedly she voted her conscience in backing impeachment for the riot, which followed a rally where Trump encouraged supporters to get rid of lawmakers who “aren’t any good, the Liz Cheneys of the world.”
Far from leading a peaceful demonstration, Trump “summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack," Cheney said in a statement ahead of the Jan. 13 impeachment vote.
In a statement after the state GOP vote, Cheney said she remained honored to represent Wyoming and will always fight for issues that matter most to the state.
“Foremost among these is the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. My vote to impeach was compelled by the oath I swore to the Constitution,” Cheney said.
Republican officials said they invited Cheney but she didn’t attend. An empty chair labeled “Representative Cheney” sat at the front of the meeting room.
The censure vote was the latest blowback for Cheney for joining nine Republican representatives and all Democrats in the U.S. House in voting to impeach. Just three months after winning a third term with almost 70%, Cheney already faces at least two Republican primary opponents in 2022.
They include Republican state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a gun-rights activist from Cheyenne, who was at the meeting but not among those who spoke. Smith also has said he is deliberating whether to run for Congress again.
On Jan. 28, Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, of Florida, led a rally against Cheney in front of the Wyoming Capitol. About 1,000 people took part, many of them carrying signs calling for Cheney's impeachment though several were supportive.
Cheney will remain as the third-ranking member of the House GOP leadership, however, after a 145-61 vote by House Republicans on Wednesday to keep her as conference committee chair.
Trump faces trial in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday over allegedly inciting insurrection when a mob of supporters stormed into and rampaged through the Capitol after the nearby rally led by Trump and close allies.
Censure opponents mainly came from Casper, Wyoming’s second-largest city, and the Jackson Hole area near Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
“Let’s resist this infusion of left-wing cancel culture to try to censure and get rid of anybody we disagree with,” said Alexander Muromcew with the Teton County GOP.
Momentum for censure had been growing for weeks as local Republicans in around a dozen of Wyoming's 23 counties passed their own resolutions criticizing her impeachment vote.
