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Liz Cheney’s Bold Bet on Impeachment
The third-ranking Republican in the House has put her political career on the line by defying Trump.
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As his presidency careens to a finish, Republicans are sharply divided over Donald Trump. But they agree on one thing: Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney’s vote to impeach the president is a bold—and risky—move.
On Tuesday, Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, broke publicly with Trump, blaming him in a blistering three-paragraph statement for the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,” she wrote.