Former Rep. Liz Cheney warns in new book that if Donald Trump is reelected it could spell the ‘end of the US Republic’

Liz Cheney claims the end of the US Republic will occur at the end of Donald Trump’s next presidency.

In his new book, “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning,” the former Wyoming county representative generally says Americans are “falling into dictatorship in their sleep.”

Meanwhile, former New Jersey governor and 2024 presidential candidate Chris Christie agreed in a separate Sunday morning interview that Trump, his main rival in the primary, “wants to be a dictator.”

In a conversation with CBS News reporter John Dickerson, Cheney explained why she believes Trump poses problems for the future of America’s political system.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney told CBS Sunday morning that four more years of Donald Trump’s presidency would mean “the end of the republic” and said the US was “sliding into dictatorship.”

“You say if Donald Trump is re-elected, it will be the end of the Republic. What do you mean?’ Dickerson asked.

“He told us what he would do,” Chaney said. “People who say, ‘Well, if he gets elected, it’s not that dangerous because we have all these checks and balances,’ don’t fully understand the extent to which Republicans in Congress are co-opted today.”

“One of the things we’re seeing 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, details her journey to becoming one of the most anti-Trump voices in the Republican Party.

Dickerson insisted: “Is Donald Trump a fascist?”

“I think he’s definitely using fascist methods,” Cheney responded. “I think the tools he’s using are the tools we’ve seen used by authoritarian regimes, fascists and tyrants around the world.”

“The things he said and did are so outrageous in some ways that we are numb to them,” she added.

Cheney is among anti-Trump Republicans who believe it is dangerous for him to remain in the White House for another four years.

Governor Christie, who is running against Trump in the Republican presidential primary, agrees that he poses 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 been silent 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 a person who does not care about our democracy and behaves like a person who wants to be a dictator. He behaves like a man who doesn’t care about the Constitution.”

Christie is the candidate most critical of Trump, although he is at the bottom of the remaining field in polls as he seeks to unseat the former president for the GOP nomination.

Cheney, although 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.

Her actions, however, first cost Cheney her position as chairman of the Republican Party conference and then her seat in Congress when her constituents voted for her GOP nomination, Harriet Hageman.