Tis the Christmas season, so naturally the liberal ladies would be praising the birth of their “savior,” but it wasn’t Jesus they were praising, on Tuesday. It was former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney who announced that she was thinking about running as a third-party candidate if former President Trump won the GOP nomination in 2024, with the goal of spoiling the election in favor of Democrats.
“Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney continues to ring alarm bells about keeping you-know-who from ever getting back in the White House. She's holding members of her party accountable and claims she's even willing to split a third-party ticket,” announced moderator Whoopi Goldberg at the top of the show.
Faux conservative and former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed with Cheney that the worst was coming for America. “If you thought the first term of Trump was bad, buckle up,” she warned.
She did disagree with Cheney on how imminent the danger was. “Liz Cheney said we're sleepwalking into dictatorship. I’d say we're careening into it,” she critiqued. “Donald Trump is telling us what he’s going to do in a second term and we need to listen to it.”
Farah Griffin went with the ye olde ‘the guardrails are coming off’ trope:
[Trump’s] worst instincts were stifled by two things: Him not knowing how the Hell the federal government works and people saying, “Yo, you got to run for reelection.” Those things are not the case in a second election. He knows how to weaponize the federal government. He’s planning to fire civil servants with expertise and non-partisan people, staff the government with loyalists. He has an enemies list, which by the way, that includes the media. He came after MSNBC, he will truly go after the media in a second term.
“I cannot raise enough alarm bells about how dangerous he is and how he needs to be stopped at all costs,” she proclaimed.
It was racist and anti-Semitic co-host Sunny Hostin who elevated Cheney to the status of the savior of the world. “Are people hearing these alarms? Because you're not the only one that’s raising these alarms. I mean, we're seeing people with great credibility raising these alarms…I never thought I would say that Liz Cheney is probably our savior here,” she praised.
So many alarms!
Later on in the show, they were joined by always-incompetent White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and asked her to back up Cheney with an official position on Trump from the White House. “Over the weekend, Liz Cheney said a second Trump presidency means the U.S. would be sleepwalking into a dictatorship; Alyssa mentioned she thought we were – we would be careening into a dictatorship. How serious in the administration's view does the former President present?” Hostin wondered.
Despite initially saying she wanted “to be careful because, in my position, I can't talk about 2024 or any upcoming elections,” things Karine[d] out of control:
But what I can say is this, we have to remember why this President decided to run back in 2020. He believed that our democracy was under attack. Right? He believed the soul of our nation needed to be saved, needed to be protected, and that's why he ran.
It’s unclear if gold, frankincense, and myrrh will be featured gifts in the next “View Your Deal” segment. Pa rum pum pum pum.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
December 5, 2023
11:02:57 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: So, here's what's going on. Former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney continues to ring alarm bells about keeping you-know-who from ever getting back in the White House. She's holding members of her party accountable and claims she's even willing to split a third-party ticket.
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11:05:48 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: If you thought the first term of Trump was bad, buckle up. Liz Cheney said we're sleepwalking into dictatorship. I’d say we're careening into it. Donald Trump is telling us what he’s going to do in a second term and we need to listen to it.
[Applause]
He says that in the first term a lot of the worst instincts were stifled by two things: Him not knowing how the Hell the federal government works and people saying, “Yo, you got to run for reelection.” Those things are not the case in a second election. He knows how to weaponize the federal government. He’s planning to fire civil servants with expertise and non-partisan people, staff the government with loyalists. He has an enemies list, which by the way, that includes the media. He came after MSNBC, he will truly go after the media in a second term.
JOY BEHAR: That's us.
FARAH GRIFFIN: And we can't take him lightly. Before I can tell you, right before I resigned I was in an Oval Office meeting with a dozen other staffers, and somebody had -- he thinks -- leaked a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protest. And he said, “Whoever did that should be executed.” He’s used that terminology – He’s used it talking about chairman Miley.
I cannot raise enough alarm bells about how dangerous he is and how he needs to be stopped at all costs.
[Applause]
SUNNY HOSTIN: But I do wonder, are people listening? Are people hearing these alarms? Because you're not the only one that’s raising these alarms. I mean, we're seeing people with great credibility raising these alarms, and the polls – I know Whoopi hates the polls – but it just seems like the very feeling in the country is, he's going to be the nominee no matter what. And I will say this, I never thought I would say that Liz Cheney is probably our savior here, because she voted 93 percent of the time with Trump.
(…)
11:16:29 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: Over the weekend, Liz Cheney said a second Trump presidency means the U.S. would be sleepwalking into a dictatorship; Alyssa mentioned she thought we were – we would be careening into a dictatorship. How serious in the administration's view does the former President present?
WH PRESS SECY. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: So, want to be careful because in my position, I can't talk about 2024 or any upcoming elections.
But what I can say is this, we have to remember why this President decided to run back in 2020. He believed that our democracy was under attack. Right? He believed the soul of our nation needed to be saved, needed to be protected, and that's why he ran. And since his presidency, even obviously before then, during the last campaign, he has talked about protecting our democracy. He's talked about everything that we need to do to fight for our democracy.
And it's not just us. It’s not just all of us here having this conversation or the President. In 2022, in 2023, after those – and currently in this election – after the midterm in 2022, specifically you saw a majority of Americans say, they want our democracy to be protected. They want our freedoms to be protected. For example, women being able to make a decision on their own bodies to be protected.
[Applause]
And so the President stands with the majority of the American people on those issues and so many others obviously.
And here's the thing, I'll say this as it relates to January 6th, what we saw on January 6th in 2021. It was dangerous, horrific, and it was an attack on our democracy. The President has spoken to that multiple times about how dangerous that day was. And it is wrong, it is wrong to want to suspend our Constitution. It is wrong to want to turn over the will of the people. It is wrong to use rhetoric for violence. It is wrong, it is wrong, it is wrong. And the president, again, stands with the majority of the American people when it comes to protecting our democracy.
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