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Former representative Liz Cheney's new book, Oath and Honor will be officially out later today, but copies have already leaked out. In the book, Cheney warns that Americans are sleepwalking into a dictatorship. She believes Donald Trump will end the U.S. republic if he wins. Sunday she was interviewed by CBS' John Dickerson. He asked her if Trump is a fascist. She said: "I think that he certainly is employing fascist techniques. I think that the tools that he is using are tools that we've seen used by authoritarians, fascists, tyrants around the world."
The book calls many of her former House colleagues "enablers" and "collaborators," some of them by name. These include former speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and current speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). She writes that these people can't be trusted with power and that the dangers are ongoing and the stakes couldn't be higher. She also noted that many House members believed that Trump should be impeached and convicted but were afraid to vote for impeachment because they feared for their security and for that of their families.
Trump is apparently a speed reader because he is already attacking Cheney about a number of items in the book. She claims that he knew he lost the 2020 election and became depressed and stopped eating. This got McCarthy worried, so he went to Mar-a-Lago for a visit. Trump has denied this on his failing boutique social media network. He wrote: "That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much. But that's not why Keven [sic] McCarthy was there. He was at Mar-a-Lago to get my support and to bring the Republican Party together."
Trump is not the only one who gives the book only one star. Trump's spokesman, Steven Cheung, said the book should be repurposed as toilet paper. Since Cheung has been a giant a** for years, we guess he would know. McCarthy's office has implied that Cheney is deranged. No doubt there will be a lot more about the book today. (V)