Liz Cheney After Leadership Ouster: Will Not Let Donald Trump Get Near the Oval Office Again

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said in a press conference Wednesday just after House Republicans removed her from House leadership that she will not let former President Trump get near the Oval Office again.

“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office. We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language,” she said:

Liz Cheney immediately after she was ousted from House leadership: "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office." pic.twitter.com/mxrPHqtRup

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 12, 2021

Before her ouster by a loud vote of no confidence, Cheney said Trump is unraveling “our democracy” and leading us “down that path lies our destruction.”

“We cannot let the former president drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy. Down that path lies our destruction, and potentially the destruction of our country,” she continued. “If you want leaders who will enable and spread his destructive lies, I’m not your person, you have plenty of others to choose from. That will be their legacy.”

CHENEY: "I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office. We have seen the danger that he continues to provoke with his language…"

— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) May 12, 2021

Former democratic Rep Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) tells me the vote of no confidence was a LOUD voice vote which Cheney failed. Says no one spoke up to defend her, Kinzinger (R-IL) included.

— Nathaniel Reed (@ReedReports) May 12, 2021

“The nation needs a party based in the fundamental principals of conservatism” Cheney says after the caucus meeting, after she failed a voice vote of no confidence

Says she will do every thing she can to ensure Trump gets nowhere near the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/2ha9A6hwVW

— Nathaniel Reed (@ReedReports) May 12, 2021

Cheney officially out. It was a voice vote. And it was quick. pic.twitter.com/LPXwZ9mNuN

— Emily Brooks (@emilyelarsen) May 12, 2021