Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney has been making the rounds on television shows over the past week as she tried to drum up interest in her new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning.”

The book details her experiences in the Republican Party during Trump’s presidency and her subsequent opposition to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

In the book, Cheney recounts a conversation after the Capitol riot with then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

McCarthy allegedly told Cheney he visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after the riot because Trump was depressed and not eating.

On Sunday, Trump released a scathing response to the allegation in Cheney’s book.

From The Hill:

“That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform early Monday.

“But that’s not why [Kevin] McCarthy was there,” Trump continued. “He was at Mar-a-Lago to get my support, and to bring the Republican Party together – Only good intentions.”

Trump, the leading GOP presidential candidate in 2024, continued, attacking “Crazy Liz Cheney,” one of Trump’s most high-profile and effective GOP critics. She was the vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol and has repeatedly used her platform to warn of the danger she thinks Trump poses to American democracy.

“Liz Cheney, on the other hand, went on to lose her seat in Congress by the largest margin for a sitting Congressperson in the history of the U.S. She then worked with others on the J6 Committee to delete and destroy the evidence and findings of the committee,” Trump said, repeating a baseless claim about the committee.

The committee published an 814-page final report from its investigation and published additional evidence on a publicly available government site.

Cheney lost her reelection bid in 2022 after defiantly refuting false claims of a stolen election.

She has been a vocal critic of Trump since he left office and suggested a few days ago that he would stay in power forever if he is re-elected next year.

 

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