Ex-Trump Aide Gets Emotional Over Liz Cheney ‘Speaking Out’
Liz Cheney has a big fan in one of The View’s co-hosts, Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose voice seemed to crack on Friday’s show as she lauded the former congresswoman for “doing what’s right.”
“I watched person after person that I admired and looked up to in politics not speak out and just go along to get along—except for one woman, Liz Cheney,” the former Trump White House communications official turned View co-host said, voice shaking. She added that Cheney was “a true leader,” and “someone who puts their ambition aside, their career, the money they could make, to do what’s right.”
After first speaking out against Trump and his role in the attack on the capital, Cheney was expelled from Republican leadership and lost re-election in 2022. This week Cheney began campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris and made a scathing speech blasting Trump at one of Harris’ rallies Thursday, during which she also joked about his “spray tanning.” Trump responded with a predictable online rant in which he called Cheney a “low IQ War Hawk,” and also attacked her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has also endorsed Harris.