Liz Cheney urges graduates not to compromise with the truth in commencement speech

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Source: AP

By SAM METZ 5 minutes ago

Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney implored new college graduates to not compromise when it comes to the truth, excoriating her House Republican colleagues for not doing enough to combat former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen.

In a commencement speech at Colorado College, the Wyoming Republican repeated her fierce criticisms of Trump but steered clear of talking about his 2024 reelection campaign or her own political future.

Cheney, who graduated from Colorado College in 1988, recalled being a political science student walking into a campus building where a Bible verse was inscribed above the entrance that read, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”

“I had to choose between lying and losing my position in House leadership,” Cheney said Sunday in Colorado Springs, connecting her experiences as a student to her work in the U.S. House of Representatives. “As I spoke to my colleagues on my last morning as chair of the Republican Conference in May of 2021, I told them that if they wanted a leader who would lie, they should choose someone else.”




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[LakeArenal]

1. And so... they did.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Yep, showing who they are, they did.

[erronis]

3. It's possible to admire Liz Cheney for these actions,

and also worry about her long-term intentions.

If she would clearly and believably state a platform that was not a throw-back to the Reagan/Bush/Cheney(Dick) era, then I think a lot of people would be more accepting of her.

[oldsoftie]

5. But 30% of the GOP will NEVER give her a platform

RINO!!!!!!!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. She is an ultra conservative still..., but not a fascist...huge gulf there.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

4. She needs to be saying this on Fox News weekly.

[Kath2]

7. She is the more intelligent Cheney.

Much like Mary Trump is the far more reasonable and intelligent Trump.

[Skittles]

8. she "compromises with truth" just by being a member of the repuke party

UGH

[roamer65]

9. +1000

Guilt by association.

[Kath2]

10. Thank you. As Gloria Steinem once stated...

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion by Gloria Steinem.

[Bayard]

11. I admire her,

But I certainly don't agree with her politics.