Tuesday 20 September 2022 02:32 PM Liz Cheney claims pro-Trump GOP lawmaker mocked him as 'orange Jesus' while ... trends now
Outgoing Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney claimed on Monday night that a Republican colleague of hers called Donald Trump 'orange Jesus' even as he signed a form formally objecting to the ex-president's election loss.
The ousted conservative Trump critic recalled it happening in the GOP cloak room hours before the former president's supporters stormed the US Capitol to stop lawmakers from certifying his defeat.
'I was working on my remarks, I was supposed to speak that day and there were sheets of paper laid out on the desks. And I asked one of the staffers in the cloakroom, "what are these sheets of paper?" Because members were coming in and signing them,' Cheney said.
The staffer told her they were objection sheets for whoever wanted to sign up to oppose President Joe Biden's victory. Only one objection is required, but Cheney said 'there were so many who wanted to show they were objecting that they’d set up these sign-up sheets in the cloakroom.'
'As I was sitting there, a member came in and he signed his name on each one of the state’s sheets. And then he said under his breath, "The things we do for the Orange Jesus." And I thought, you know, you’re taking an act that is unconstitutional,' Cheney said.
The conservative lawmaker was ostracized from her own party for her criticism of Trump following the US Capitol riot last year and her work investigating him via the January 6 committee.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney tore into her soon-to-be-former House GOP colleagues for their enduring loyalty to Trump in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday night
She lost her primary race to a Trump-backed challenger in August.
Cheney tore into her soon-to-be-former colleagues on Monday night, accusing them of
