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The Real Reason Liz Cheney Had to Go

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“That says more about the state of the conference and its fealty to Trump’s ludicrous BS than it does about her,” said one GOP aide.

Minutes before her removal from House leadership on Wednesday, Liz Cheney told her colleagues that the nation needed a Republican Party “based on truth,” warning that embracing Donald Trump would “drag us backward and make us complicit in his efforts to unravel our democracy.”

Hours later, after House Republicans swiftly stripped...

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