‘Not Going Anywhere:’ Cheney Votes To Impeach Trump, Rejects Republican Criticism

U.S. Representative 👤Liz Cheney broke with the majority of her fellow Republicans in laying blame squarely on President 👤Donald Trump for the deadly riot that Americans watched unfold in the U.S. Capitol a week ago. And she has no qualms about it.

“I’m not going anywhere,” the three-term congresswoman proclaimed to reporters after some back-bench Republicans angrily demanded on Wednesday that she be fired from her position as the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives.

She was one of ten Republicans — and the highest ranking — to vote to impeach Trump a second time in the chamber that lawmakers fled last week when a mob of Trump supporters angry about his false claims of election fraud ransacked the Capitol.

The move made her the most senior Republican to formally break with Trump following his November election defeat. Current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who last week rejected Trump’s two-month campaign claiming election fraud, said he would decide whether to vote to impeach at Trump’s trial.

A rising star in the party, the vote would be a indelible mark on Cheney’s resume, for good or ill, in any future leadership battle. The top House Republican, Kevin McCarthy, declined or ignored reporters’ questions about Cheney’s move on Wednesday.

As the House debated whether to impeach Trump, Cheney explained that her beef with the president was not merely around a difference of opinion over legislation.

The ⚖️Impeachment resolution, she said, was “a vote of conscience” during a crisis not seen since the U.S. Civil War.