The battle between Liz-Ism and Trumpism.
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HOWARD KURTZ, FOX NEWS HOST (on camera): In the end, toppled from power, ostracized by her party, Liz Cheney turned to the media, her new allies, to escalate her crusade against Donald Trump. Are the pundits lionizing the Wyoming congresswoman seriously? Well, The View Joy Behar called her Joan of Arc and the former president fuels the coverage by hitting back hard against Cheney s criticism, calling her a bitter, horrible human being. That was just the opening line.
Donald Trump is effectively forcing every Republican who wants a political future to show how far they're willing to compromise on principle, truth and conscience for power.
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Now that Donald Trump is gone from office, whatâs next? This week on Intercepted: There are a slew of unanswered questions about the siege of the Capitol. Americans are being asked to believe that the national security apparatus â the same one that charged nearly 200 people en masse, including journalists and observers, with felony rioting when Trump was inaugurated in 2017, and has leveled federal charges including terrorism charges on Black Lives Matter protesters â failed to see the threat to the U.S. Congress posed by right-wing extremists, even as people organized across social media platforms in plain sight.