华盛顿——众议院共和党第三号人物、众议员利兹·切尼周日表示，她不会因为怀俄明州共和党人的责难和一些众议院同事对她弹劾唐纳德·特朗普的投票的批评而退缩，也不会辞职或放弃对前总统的批评。
切尼说她对宪法的宣誓迫使她投了赞成票弹劾，“而且不屈服于党派之争，不屈服于政治压力。”
她建议，如果她在参议院，她可能会投票给特朗普定罪，罪名是他在1月6日国会大厦暴乱中的角色。特朗普在参议院的审判将于周二开始。
“我会听证词——我会听证据，”切尼告诉“福克斯周日新闻”“我显然相信，而且当时确实相信，我们已经知道的对他来说已经足够了弹劾。我们已经知道的确实构成了美国历史上任何一位总统最严重的违反其就职誓言的行为，这不是我们可以简单地回顾过去或假装没有发生或试图继续前进的事情。"
“我们必须确保这种情况不会再次发生，”她说。
周六，怀俄明州共和党以压倒性多数投票谴责切尼。在由74名成员组成的共和党中央委员会中，只有8名成员反对这一惩罚，投票没有进行正式计数。谴责文件指责切尼投票弹劾特朗普，尽管众议院没有给他提供“正式听证或正当程序”。
此前，上周在美国首都进行了145票对61票的无记名投票，众议院共和党人以压倒性多数拒绝了极右翼保守分子在弹劾投票中推翻切尼领导的叛乱。
“我们需要尊重特朗普总统。怀俄明州夏延人达林·史密斯(Darin Smith)是一名律师，他在2016年共和党众议院席位初选中输给了切尼。"共和党需要引起她的注意。"
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”。大约三分之二的众议院共和党人投票支持特朗普推翻11月选举失败的努力——就在他的支持者对国会大厦进行致命包围几小时后。
“人们被骗了，”她周日说。“在1月6日之前的几个月里，特朗普总统在多大程度上散布了选举被盗或选举被操纵的说法是谎言。”
密歇根州众议员黛比·丁格尔(Debbie Dingell)表示，她“不敢说切尼女士的好话，我可能会给她带来麻烦”。但她凭良心投票，我们都必须想办法把这些争吵放在一边，因为美国人民指望我们完成一些事情。”R-Pa参议员Pat Toomey。称切尼为“一个了不起的、有能力的领袖”
切尼是前副总统迪克·切尼的女儿，也是该党的常客，她抨击自己的政党受到指责，指出该州共和党人接受阴谋论，例如不准确地声称暴力抗议背后有非特朗普支持者。
她还批评众议院的同事支持众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林(Marjorie Taylor Greene)，称她的政党——而不是民主党——应该惩罚强硬的佐治亚州共和党人，因为她在网上支持种族主义和暴力观点以及奇怪的阴谋论。周四，民主党领导的众议院投票取消了格林在众议院教育和预算委员会的职务，只有11名共和党人支持这一举措。
“我们是林肯的政党，我们不是卡农或反犹太主义或否认大屠杀者的政党，也不是白人至上主义或阴谋论的政党。这不是我们，”切尼说。
“我们需要确保我们作为共和党人是真理之党，我们对2020年发生的事情诚实，这样我们就有机会在2022年获胜，并在2024年赢回白宫，”她说。
丁格尔出现在CNN的“内部政治”节目中，图梅出现在CNN的“国情咨文”节目中。
Cheney says she won't quit the House after Wyoming censure
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House GOP leader, said Sunday she was undeterred by a censure from Wyoming Republicans and criticism from some House colleagues over her vote to impeach Donald Trump, and will not resign or back off her repudiation of the former president.
Cheney said the oath she took to the Constitution compelled her vote for impeachment, “and it doesn’t bend to partisanship, it doesn’t bend to political pressure.”
She suggested that if she were in the Senate, she might vote to convict Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump's trial in the Senate begins Tuesday.
“I would listen to the testimony — I would listen to the evidence,” Cheney told “Fox News Sunday.” “I obviously believe and did then that what we already know is enough for his impeachment. What we already know does constitute the gravest violation of his oath of office by any president in the history of the country, and this is not something that we can simply look past or pretend didn’t happen or try to move on.”
“We’ve got to make sure this never happens again,” she said.
On Saturday, the Wyoming Republican Party voted overwhelmingly to censure Cheney. Only eight of the 74-member state GOP’s central committee opposed the punishment in a vote that did not proceed to a formal count. The censure document accused Cheney of voting to impeach Trump, even though the House didn’t offer him “formal hearing or due process.”
That followed a 145-61 secret-ballot vote this past week in the nation's capital in which House Republicans overwhelmingly rebuffed a rebellion by hard-right conservatives to toss Cheney from leadership over her impeachment vote.
“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, Wyoming, attorney who lost to Cheney in the Republican primary for the House seat in 2016. “The Republican Party needs to put her on notice.”
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 before the Jan. 13 impeachment vote. About two-thirds of House Republicans voted to back Trump’s effort to overturn his November election loss — just hours after his supporters’ deadly siege of the Capitol.
“People have been lied to,” she said Sunday. “The extent to which the president, President Trump, for months leading up to Jan. 6 spread the notion that the election had been stolen or that the election was rigged was a lie.”
Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., said she was "afraid to say anything good about Ms. Cheney, I might get her in trouble. But she voted her conscience and we’re all going to have to find some ways to put all of this bickering aside because the American people are counting on us to get some things done.” Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., called Cheney “a terrific, capable leader.”
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and a fixture of the party establishment, blasted her state party for the censure, noting that state Republicans embraced conspiracy theories such as the inaccurate claim that non-Trump supporters were behind the violent protests.
She also was critical of her House colleagues for standing behind Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, saying that her party — not Democrats — should have been the ones to punish the hard-right Georgia Republican for her online embrace of racist and violent views and bizarre conspiracy theories. The Democratic-led House on Thursday voted to strip Greene of her assignments on the House Education and Budget committees, with only 11 Republicans joining to support the move.
“We are the party of Lincoln, we are not the party of QAnon or anti-Semitism or Holocaust-deniers, or white supremacy or conspiracy theories. That’s not who we are,” Cheney said.
“We need to make sure that we as Republicans are the party of truth and that we’re being honest about what really did happen in 2020, so we actually have a chance to win in 2022 and win the White House back in 2024,” she said.
Dingell was on CNN's “Inside Politics” and Toomey appeared on CNN's “State of the Union.”
