Liz Cheney hits back at Donald Trump using “the big lie” to defend his baseless election-fraud claims

Graeme Massie
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<p>Liz Cheney (R-WY) leaves the podium after speaking during a news conference with other Republican members of the House of Representatives at the Capitol on July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC</p> (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Liz Cheney (R-WY) leaves the podium after speaking during a news conference with other Republican members of the House of Representatives at the Capitol on July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC

(Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Liz Cheney has hit back at Donald Trump using “the big lie” to defend his debunked election-fraud claims.

The one-term president issued a statement saying that he would like people to refer to his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden as “the big lie”.

Mr Trump continues to push the baseless theory that voter fraud cost him the White House, but has failed to provide any evidence in a string of legal defeats across the country.

Ms Cheney, the third highest-ranking Republican leader in the House, voted to impeach Mr Trump for an historic second time over his role in the 6 January Capitol riot and has since become a target for the former president and his supporters.

Now, the Wyoming congresswoman has hit back on social media at his latest claims.

“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system,” tweeted Ms Cheney.

On Friday right-wing news network Newsmax issued a public apology to Dominion Voting Systems employee Eric Coomer, and admitted it had “no evidence” of claims it made that he had manipulated voting machines.

Mr Coomer launched a defamation lawsuit last December against Newsmax, One America News Network, OANN correspondent Chanel Rion, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and others, for claims they made against him after the election.

House Republicans have accused Ms Cheney of dividing the GOP conference with her criticism of Mr Trump.

Ms Cheney is the House Republican Conference Chair, the third-highest position in the House Republican leadership, and some lawmakers have threatened to try and remove her.

She already survived a similar vote earlier this year and it is unclear if House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy will bring another one against her.

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