Politico | With ‘big lie’ rebuke of Donald Trump, Liz Cheney stokes Republican rift
- The congresswoman swiped back at the ex-president’s new attempt to push the false claim that he won the election last November
- Cheney become a top target of Trump and his allies after she was the top ranking Republican to vote to impeach him after the Capitol attack in January
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on May 3, 2021.
US congresswoman Liz Cheney on Monday escalated her feud with Donald Trump and his supporters in Congress, issuing a less-than-subtle swipe at the former president’s latest attempt to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him.
On Monday morning, Trump issued a statement from his Save America PAC proclaiming that the presidential election “will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE!” – an attempt to appropriate the label given to the false claim by Trump and his Republican allies that last November's election was in fact won by the former president.
Less than an hour later, Cheney, who faces renewed pressure from Trump-aligned forces within the Republican caucus to remove her from House leadership over her direct rebukes of the former president’s falsehoods, swiped back on Twitter.
“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen,” Cheney wrote. “Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.”