Liz Cheney predicts potential second term of Trump will be ‘worse’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney broadcast her worries that Donald Trump will only get ‘worse’ if elected a second time.

Cheney gave an interview to ABC’s This Week which aired Sunday, sharing her prediction of a second Trump term in light of his recent comments. Trump has been touring the country to campaign for the Republican nomination for president in 2024. During a speech, he promised to become a “dictator,” but just for a day.

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“I think we have to take everything that Donald Trump says literally and seriously,” Cheney said of the comment. “I think that we saw frankly what he was willing to do already after the 2020 election in the lead up to January 6, after January 6. People need to remember that when Donald Trump woke up on the morning of January 6, he thought he was going to remain as president.”

When ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Cheney if she thought a second term from the former president would be worse, she answered: “Absolutely.” Karl then asked her to elaborate on why.

“It would be worse because he has had practice and because those people who were around him, who actually did stop the worst that he was trying to do, would not be around him again,” Cheney explained. “Our institutions don’t protect themselves; it’s the people who do, and when you have a situation, where, for example, Mike Flynn, who suggested deploy the military to rerun the election and swing states — martial law — people like Steve Bannon, Kash Patel, sort of you know the craziest and least stable of the people that are around Donald Trump. Those are the people that he will put into the most important highest offices in the land.”

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Cheney served in the House of Representatives for Wyoming through nearly all of Trump’s presidency but lost the primary election in 2022 following her participation on the Jan. 6 Committee. Before her committee appointment, Cheney had become a loud opponent of Trump.

The former president has maintained a massive lead ever since the various indictments came out against him, from mishandling classified documents to subverting the 2020 presidential election. He pleaded not guilty to all 91 charges against him.