Liz Cheney: ‘Mike Johnson is dangerous’

Former House GOP leader Liz Cheney is pouring fuel on the liberal fire heating up the Left’s claim that newly installed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is an insurrectionist and puppet of former President Donald Trump.

Promoting a new book and from her perch as a professor at the University of Virginia, the former Wyoming lawmaker who was the party conference chair, said, “One of the reasons why somebody like Mike Johnson is dangerous is because when you have elected Republicans who know better, elected Republicans who know the truth but yet will go along with the efforts to undermine our republic, the efforts, frankly, that Donald Trump undertook to overturn the election.”

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Cheney, who helped lead the House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots that delayed the certification of Joe Biden as president, made her comments in a podcast about her book to fellow professor Larry Sabato, who leads the school’s Center for Politics.

Her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, will be released on Dec. 5.

In taking on Trump and the rioters before while running for reelection in 2022, Cheney ended up losing her seat in the pro-Trump state.

She has since traveled the country speaking out against Trump while calling on Republicans to reject his try for the White House. National and state polls show that he is the overwhelming favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination and is tied or doing better in matchups with Biden.

During her discussion with Sabato, she recalled Johnson and his efforts to join with other conservatives to challenge Biden’s election.

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“Mike [Johnson] is somebody that I knew well. We were elected together. Our offices were next to each other, and Mike is somebody who says that he’s committed to defending the Constitution. But that’s not what he did when we were all tested in the aftermath of the 2020 election,” she said, according to Sabato.

“In my experience, and, I was very, deeply involved and engaged as the conference chair, when Mike was doing things like convincing members of the conference to sign on to the amicus brief. He was acting in ways that he knew to be wrong. And, I think that the country unfortunately will come to see the measure of his character.”

“In my view, he was willing to set aside what he knew to be the rulings of the courts, the requirements of the Constitution, in order to placate Donald Trump, in order to gain praise from Donald Trump, for political expedience. So it’s a concerning moment to have him be elected speaker of the House,” said Cheney.