The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway praised — in a roundabout way — former Rep. Liz Cheney during a Fox News segment on Sunday for essentially removing the moniker of “war party” from Republicans to Democrats with her embrace of “toxic neocon interventionism.” In an interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromon for Sunday Morning Futures, Hemingway intimated the former Wyoming Republican’s anti-Trump shift and embrace by Democrats signals a big shift in a politically unpopular foreign policy from the GOP to the opposition party.
Hemingway made her comments in response to President Joe Biden’s decision to award Cheney the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian award. “Well, this award to Liz Cheney really is inappropriate. This is a woman who was hand-selected by Nancy Pelosi to run a committee that was extremely one-sided. Liz Cheney, in the course of running this committee to supposedly investigate the January 6th incident at the capitol, obstructed justice, witness-tampered. We have lots of reason to believe she witness-tampered with Cassidy Hutchinson, getting involved in that woman’s actual legal representation. She hid evidence that exonerated Donald Trump.”
Hemingway continued: “I mean, one of the big things that Liz Cheney had said was that Donald Trump had not, in fact, sought a presence at the capitol to protect people who were protesting, and she had evidence when she conducted her interviews that the deputy chief of staff said he personally heard Donald Trump say he thought 10,000 National Guard troops would be good, that he heard the chief of staff talk to the D.C. Mayor encouraging her to request those troops. But she hid that evidence, completely failed to release that evidence until — and it only came out after Republicans took control of the house. This is not someone that you should be giving an award to, someone who’s witness tampering, obstructing justice and the like.”
Bartiromo then asked the editor if she believed Cheney violated the law, noting that the potential for a pardon issued by Biden was being mentioned in media circles. Hemingway said: The pardon is being sought by people who know what she did because she is in legal jeopardy. At the very least, she should be investigated for this. But I also think it’s so interesting how much Democrats — the reason why she’s getting the award is she helped Democrats campaign. They thought she was helpful.
“You might remember, the Kamala Harris campaign had Liz Cheney out on the road. That was their closing message. If you vote for Kamala Harris, you’re going to have people like Liz Cheney handling our foreign policy. And polling showed that was actually a net negative with people on that campaign,” Hemingway added. “So Liz Cheney, as awful as her behavior has been in these last few years, she did give Republicans this gift of taking her very unpopular, politically toxic, neocon interventionism and moving it from the Republican Party now firmly into the Democrat Party. So for that, Republicans can be thankful.”
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