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Harriet Hageman talks a lot about 'riding for the brand,’ but doesn't mind Trump betrayed the brand [1]
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Date: 2022-09-01
Hageman’s first ad set the tone for her campaign—branding Cheney as someone who had sold Wyoming up the river.
Hageman referred to a portion of the “code of the West” that calls for good cowboys to “ride for the brand.” As the ranch hands who introduced the video said, riding for the brand meant loyalty to whoever hired or paid them. The message? By opposing Trump, Cheney had broken her word to the outfit that hired her—the people of Wyoming.
She drove the point home further in an op-ed for Cowboy State Daily, in which she claimed Cheney was actually aiding and abetting the Biden administration.
Now that we in Wyoming are suffering the consequences and travesty that is the Biden administration, I’d wager that President Trump is even more popular in Wyoming than when he received 70 percent of the vote in the last election. But Liz Cheney has gone the other way. Far from riding for the brand, Cheney has left the bunkhouse, run across the road, jumped into the gulch, and thrown her lot in with the rival outfit – you know the kind.
For all of her newfound loyalty to Trump, Hageman might as well have been describing him, not Cheney. After all, by the time she penned these words, we knew that Trump had betrayed the American people—the outfit who supposedly hired him—too many times to count. He utterly mishandled the worst peacetime crisis that this nation has ever faced. He tried to bully a foreign country into joining a politically motivated investigation of one of his potential opponents for reelection. He didn’t even attempt to reach out to those who didn’t vote for him. And of course, he ranted and raved about nonexistent election fraud when ample evidence from the published record shows that he damned well knew he had lost. And that’s before we discuss his willful decision to take highly classified documents to Mar-a-Lago, apparently because he thought they belonged to him, not the American people.
Despite this, Hageman’s silence has been deafening. Since her primary victory, she has tweeted a grand total of nine times. And not a word about the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Never mind that the Justice Department filings portray a man who broke his word to the American people. Instead, he left the bunkhouse, ran across the road, jumped into the gulch, and cast his lot with his own outfit—not the outfit who hired him. And that’s the best-case scenario.
On the surface, she may be following the lead of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who still wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to prepare for Star Chamber-style hearings if the Republicans get the majority even after all that has been revealed.
x Attorney General Garland: preserve your documents and clear your calendar. pic.twitter.com/dStAjnwbAT — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022
As I write this, this tweet is still pinned to McCarthy’s Twitter feed. From where I’m sitting, McCarthy has “left the bunkhouse, run across the road, jumped into the gulch, and thrown his lot in with the rival outfit.” And after six years, we all know the kind.
But it’s really telling that Hageman hasn’t seen fit to speak up about the trove of classified documents when she made so much hay about being loyal to those who hired you. And now Trump has shown that at best, he’s only loyal to himself. The silence from Hageman is so deafening I can hear it even though I’m two time zones away.
Granted, Hageman already gave us a good idea of who she was when she appeared on Steve Bannon’s show earlier this year, when she called Biden a human trafficker. No, this isn’t snark.
x Harriet Hageman: "Joe Biden is the largest or the most destructive human trafficker in our history."
This is the nutjob who's running against Liz Cheney. pic.twitter.com/xoiQuihVck — The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) August 12, 2022
You can be pardoned for thinking that Hageman sounded like a clone of Marjorie Taylor Greene. All you need to do is replace the gray hair with blonde hair. That moment proved that Hageman is poised to join the cabal of unhinged idiots in the House GOP—a club that includes the likes of Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Ronny Jackson, Jim Jordan, and others.
But this is one of the few times when what someone doesn’t say is more telling than what they do say. By not having the integrity to condemn Trump’s reckless and potentially treasonous conduct, Hageman is telling us who she really is—a woman with absolutely no integrity. And we’d best believe her. Given that she likely punched her ticket to Congress by beating Cheney, we cannot chance her being empowered if the Republicans get the majority.
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