Sen. Murphy on Trump and Allies Targeting Liz Cheney: ‘This Is Made Up Out of Thin Air; There Is Not Even a Shred of a Crime Committed Here’

Wallace: “What is the remedy at this point if he’s put so many cards on the table and received the desired response advance of actually wielding any constitutional power?”

MURPHY: “Yeah, I think the most important remedy right now is for this not to be normalized. I read all the headlines about the Liz Cheney criminal referral yesterday, and almost every single one of them in mainstream media played this straight as if this was — as if this was a normal, regular function of legislative power instead of telling the truth, which is that this is made up out of thin air. There’s not even a shred of a crime committed here. But if you read the headlines yesterday, you thought that Liz Cheney actually did something criminally wrong. And so, as leaders, we can’t accept that this is normal. As journalists, you can’t accept that this is normal. The minute that we pretend that this is a normal exercise of executive power is the day that people give up fighting. So we’ve got these nomination fights coming up on Pam Bondi and Kash Patel. We should fight as Democrats like democracy is on the ballot, because it is. And if we don’t show outrage right now, then the public is going to just accept that this is a normal circumstance of present day democracy. So, showing some fight right now, both in the private sector and amongst electeds is really important.”