![]() Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania awkwardly analogized Cheney’s criticism of Trump to seeing “your girlfriend sitting on the opponent’s side” during “the biggest game of your life.” Cheney remembers thinking: “You’ve got to be kidding me.” The few GOP women in the conference had a similar reaction: “Other female members started yelling, ‘She’s not your girlfriend!’ ”Īnother surprise is the intensity of her bond with two strong Democratic women, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. I wasn’t contrite enough, nor had I learned my lesson.” During the first (failed) attempt by her GOP colleagues to oust her as conference chair, she recalls in the book, “A number of the men who spoke in favor of removing me said they didn’t like my tone. One interesting subtext in “Oath and Honor” is an understated feminism. 6 committee’s efforts to illuminate what Cheney terms, borrowing the title of Philip Roth’s counterfactual novel, “the plot against America.” It reveals Cheney’s own behind-the-scenes attempts to dissuade her colleagues from assisting him as well as her early support for articles of impeachment. “Oath and Honor” lays out the various schemes by Trump - “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office” - to negate the 2020 election. But he apparently told different stories to others. McCarthy assured Cheney that the visit was, in effect, a humanitarian mission prompted by Trump’s alleged depression and inability to eat. But Cheney, like others, sees McCarthy’s late January 2021 meeting with the ex-president at his Mar-a-Lago resort as a brake on that momentum. Mark Green of Tennessee, while signing his name to electoral-vote objections, muttered, “The things we do for the Orange Jesus.”Īfter the attack on the Capitol, many GOP officeholders seemed ready to move on from Trump. It is not exactly a shock to learn that Rep. ![]() “ Kevin McCarthy lacked the courage and the honor to abide by his oath to the Constitution,” she writes.īut those who’ve witnessed Cheney’s transformation, watched those powerful, televised committee hearings and generally followed the news won’t be stunned by the thrust of “Oath and Honor.” It’s long been reported (and was underlined in McKay Coppins’ recent “ Romney: A Reckoning”) that many Republican officeholders have privately disdained Trump while publicly supporting him. It oozes contempt toward Cheney’s former colleagues, whom she calls “enablers and collaborators.” A particular target of her ire (no surprise here) is former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whom Cheney describes as “craven,” “unprincipled,” cowardly and deceitful. ![]() 6 insurrection, she lost first her GOP House leadership post and then her Wyoming congressional seat.Ĭheney’s new book, “ Oath and Honor,” is a mostly straightforward, occasionally repetitive, literarily undistinguished account of that investigation as well as its antecedents and aftermath. For her unstinting criticism of former President Trump’s election-related shenanigans, her vote to impeach him and her role in investigating the Jan. No one has managed that feat more definitively than former Rep. In these upside-down times, a conservative stalwart can quickly become a pariah to erstwhile allies and a profile in courage to ideological foes. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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