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Donald Trump s Big Lie explained CNN 23 hrs ago Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN © Samuel Corum/Getty Images Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Former President Donald Trump has spent months spreading lies about the 2020 election, which he himself is now calling THE BIG LIE as he continues to claim that a massive conspiracy robbed him of a second term.
The result is that many Republicans now question the election results and the lie has taken on a life of its own.
In Washington, congressional Republicans who recently ousted Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from the party s leadership over her decision to call Trump out for his lies mostly united Wednesday against a review of the January 6 Capitol insurrection those lies helped incite.
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On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy walked up to a microphone in the driveway of the White House, wearing a pink tie, a blue suit, and no mask, because, he said, “I believe in the vaccine.” He and the three other congressional leaders had just met together with President Biden for the first time since he took office for the first time, in fact, since McCarthy had joined a majority of his House G.O.P. caucus in voting not to accept the results of the election that Biden won. Just before arriving at the White House, McCarthy had presided over a sixteen-minute Republican Conference meeting at which his members booed the Party’s third-ranking House leader, the Wyoming representative Liz Cheney, and dumped her by voice vote from her leadership position. Her crime was refusing to go along with Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
GOP dumps Cheney for calling out Trump
Alan Fram and Kevin Freking
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Republicans dumped GOP Rep. Liz Cheney from her House leadership post Wednesday for her persistent repudiation of Donald Trump’s election falsehoods, underscoring the hold the
defeated and twice-impeached former president retains on his party.
She defiantly insisted she’ll keep trying to wrench the party away from him and his “destructive lies.”
Meeting behind closed doors, GOP lawmakers needed less than 20 minutes and a voice vote to oust the Wyoming congresswoman from her job as their No. 3 House leader. The banishment, urged by Trump and other top Republicans, showed his ability to upend the careers of antagonists, even those from GOP royalty.
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