Liz Cheney mocked by Trumps after losing Wyoming house seat
Conservative Congresswoman Liz Cheney got the Double-Donald diss after losing her Tuesday primary in Wyoming.
The 56-year-old GOP lawmaker, who’s the daughter of a former vice president, was seen as a rising star in Republican politics until she joined the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by MAGA loyalists.
That drew the ire of former President Donald Trump and his namesake, both of whom added insult to injury to Cheney’s sound electoral defeat.
“Bye Bye Liz!!!” Trump Jr. tweeted Tuesday night.
Donald Trump Jr. and his father were giddy over Liz Cheney's loss. (Douglas P. DeFelice/)
Bye bye @Liz_Cheney. On the bright side at least you won’t have to pretend to be from Wyoming anymore.
pic.twitter.com/DMcj3ua42d— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 17, 2022
It was one of many messages the 44-year-old scion posted mocking Cheney.
“On the bright side at least you won’t have to pretend to be from Wyoming anymore,” he added to clips of his father dancing, set to the music of the 1969 Steam hit “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.”
Cheney is a Madison, Wis., native whose family moved to Wyoming when she in grade school. She also spent time in Washington, D.C., after her father, Dick Cheney, was elected to Congress in 1978. Her fortunes in the Republican party headed south when she joined the Jan. 6 committee, where she sits as the vice chair, in July 2021.
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Trump Jr. has not responded well to investigations of his father’s alleged misdeeds in office, which prompted an FBI search last week to recover classified documents from the former president’s Florida home. Trump Jr. posted a foaming at the mouth video online Monday that quickly went viral with at least one pundit asking “Is junior ok?”
He seemed more than fine after seeing Cheney pay a price for her lack of loyalty to his family, as did the Trump family patriarch and former president.
“Cheney should be ashamed of herself, the way she acted, and her spiteful, sanctimonious words and actions toward others,” the 45th president wrote on the social media platform he launched after being banned from Twitter.
Trump also called the committee investigating his role in the insurrection an “Unselect Committee of political Hacks and Thugs.”
After conceding defeat in her congressional race, Cheney appeared to leave the door open to challenging Trump for the GOP nomination in the 2024 presidential race.
“Our work is far from over,” she told supporters following her Tuesday loss.
She will continue to serve on the Jan. 6 committee through the end of 2022. Cheney was trounced in her primary by Trump-endorsed election denier Harriet Hageman. The former president, who continues to falsely claim he won the 2020 election, congratulated Hageman Wednesday, claiming Cheney was destined to “the depths of political oblivion.”
With News Wire Services
