- said Liz Cheney The US is 'sleepwalking into dictatorship' with Donald Trump
- Comes as she warns Americans will vote for him for another four years
- Chris Christie also said on Sunday that Trump 'wants to be a dictator'
Liz Cheney argues that the end of the American Republic is the end of a new presidency of Donald Trump.
In her new book Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, the former Wyoming general district representative says Americans are “sleepwalking into dictatorship.”
Meanwhile, Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and 2024 presidential candidate, agreed in a separate Sunday morning interview that Trump, his biggest rival in the primaries, “wants to be a dictator.”
Speaking to CBS News reporter John Dickerson, Cheney explained why she thinks Trump portends trouble for the future of the American political system.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney told CBS on Sunday morning that another four years of Donald Trump's presidency would mean an “end to the Republic” and said the US was “sleepwalking into dictatorship”
'You say Donald Trump: if he is re-elected, it will be the end of the Republic. What do you mean?' Dickerson asked.
“He told us what he's going to do,” Cheney said. “People who say, 'If he gets elected, it won't be that dangerous because we have all these checks and balances,' don't fully understand the extent to which Republicans in Congress have been co-opted today.”
“One of the things we see happening today is a kind of sleepwalking towards dictatorship in the United States,” she explained.
Cheney's upcoming memoir Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning chronicles her journey to becoming one of the most anti-Trump voices in the Republican Party
Dickerson pressed, “Is Donald Trump a fascist?”
“I think he's definitely using fascist techniques,” Cheney responded. “I think the tools he's using are tools we've seen used by authoritarians, fascists and tyrants around the world.”
“The things he has said and done are in some ways so outrageous that we have become numb to them,” she added.
Cheney is among anti-Trump Republicans who believe the potential of another four years of him in the White House is dangerous.
Gov. Christie, who is running against Trump in the Republican presidential election, agrees he is a threat to American democracy.
“Look, I can't speak for everyone in my party, I can only speak for myself,” Christie told CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan on Sunday: “I haven't sat still since the day I entered this race. '
“Drama and chaos seem to follow him,” he said of Trump. “The reason is that he behaves like someone who doesn't care about our democracy, like someone who wants to be a dictator. He acts like someone who doesn't care about the Constitution.”
Christie is the candidate most critical of Trump, although he is in the lower reaches of the remaining field and wants to dethrone the former president for the Republican nomination.
Cheney, while not in the 2024 race, is one of Trump's most vocal critics within the Republican Party.
She was one of two House Republicans on the Jan. 6 Select Committee and was among those who voted to impeach Trump after the attack on the Capitol.
However, her actions cost Cheney first her position as chairman of the Republican Conference and later her seat in Congress when her voters voted her out over current Republican Representative Harriet Hageman.