House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) says there is “anti-semitism” and “white supremacy” in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
During her roughly 45-minute remarks to the Cheyenne Rotary Club on Wednesday, Cheney spoke out about the future of the Republican Party as well as the importance of rejecting conspiratorial thinking, The Casper Star-Tribune reports.
“Independence is the idea that our constitutional rights come from God,” Cheney said, adding, “I think that it’s very important for us, at the same time, to be clear that we reject some of the most outrageous, extreme and indefensible positions that we’ve seen.”
Cheney also said, “We’ve seen anti-Semitism, white supremacy, Holocaust denial, by people both on the right in the Republican Party and by people on the left in the Democratic Party.”
She continued, “They can have no place in our public discourse. We have to be very clear that we stand for freedom and justice and equality and that we’re going to fight for those things.”
The Wyoming lawmaker also said former President Donald Trump’s role in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6 can’t be “[glossed] over.”
She was one of the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote to impeach Trump. Cheney was censured by her state party after she voted to impeach Trump.
She said during her remarks on Wednesday, “I’ve had the opportunity in my career to spend time working all over the world and in countries where they don’t have a peaceful transfer of power, working in countries where violence decides the outcome of elections. And what happened on Jan. 6 came very close to that.”
Cheney suggested on Feb. 7 during a Fox News interview that Trump “does not have a role as a leader of our party going forward.”
