Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) had some choice words for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after he met with former President Donald Trump.
McConnell, along with other the Senate GOP officials met with the presumptive presidential nominee Thursday.
Cheney, who lost her seat in Congress in 2022, pointed out in a post on X, formerly Twitter, the hypocrisy of the meeting, The Hill reported.
“History will remember the shame of people like Leader McConnell,” she said after listing a litany of Trump’s actions — and no action — during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
She also called Trump “a danger to our Republic.”
“Mitch McConnell knows Trump provoked the violent attack on our Capitol and then ‘watched television happily’ as his mob brutally beat police officers and hunted the Vice President,” she wrote. “He knows Trump refused for hours to tell his mob to leave and ‘even then with police officers bleeding … he kept repeating his election lies and praising the criminals.’”
“He knows Trump committed a ‘disgraceful dereliction of duty’ and is a danger to our Republic,” she wrote. “Trump and his collaborators will be defeated, and history will remember the shame of people like McConnell who enabled them.”
This meeting was the first time Trump was on Capitol Hill since 2021.
Trump had not been seen with McConnell since 2020. The two have had a contentious relationship for years.
McConnell called the meeting “positive.”
“He and I got a chance to talk, we shook hands a few times. He got a lot of standing ovations,” he told reporters after the meeting. “It was an entirely positive meeting. I can’t think of anything to tell you out of it that was negative.”
Trump also met with the House GOP Thursday.
The meetings were a start planning what the GOP wants to do if Republicans control the House, Senate and White House.
Cheney stood apart from many of her Republican co-horts in her attempts to hold Trump responsible for the Jan. 6 attack as she served on the House Jan. 6 committee.
