Trump denies Liz Cheney’s claim he was ‘depressed’ after January 6

Liz Cheney has said Donald Trump 'wants to be a dictator' and could mean the end of the Republic – but now the former president is taking her on because she says he stopped eating after January 6. Cheney writes in her new book that former President House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told her in early 2021 that Trump was “not eating” and was “really depressed.”

McCarthy offered that as an explanation for why he flew to Mar-a-Lago to visit Trump just days after the Capitol riot. McCarthy had condemned Trump, saying he “bears responsibility” for the attack by “mob rioters,” and the visit was a key moment in Trump's bid to reassert himself as leader of his party. Trump took up the claim about his diet, days after taking on the idea that he is “cognitively impaired.”

Crazy Liz Cheney, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome at levels rarely seen before, writes in her boring new book that Keven McCarthy said he came to Mar-a-Lago after the RIGGED elections because “the former president was depressed and not eating,” Trump posted on his Truth Social site.

'That statement is not true. I wasn't depressed, I was angry, and it wasn't that I wasn't eating, it was that I was eating too much. But that's not why Keven McCarthy was there. He was at Mar-a-Lago to get my support and to rally the Republican Party – only good intentions,” Trump wrote. He posted the post just before 1 a.m. on Monday. He then noted that Cheney lost her seat following her role in leading the House committee on January 6.

McCarthy opposed Trump's second impeachment, and the former president remains a powerful force in the Republican Party in the House of Representatives, polling well ahead of his Republican presidential primary opponents. When McCarthy was ousted last month, new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made his own pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.

Cheney has been promoting her new memoir, Oath and Honor. She told CBS on Sunday that it would mean the end of the Republic if Trump were to return to power. “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.”

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