{"id":1616991,"date":"2022-08-19T20:03:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616991"},"modified":"2022-08-19T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T00:03:24","slug":"trumps-fight-with-establishment-fueled-cheneys-antagonism-gop-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-fight-with-establishment-fueled-cheneys-antagonism-gop-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Fight With Establishment Fueled Cheney\u2019s Antagonism: GOP Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-fight-with-establishment-fueled-cheneys-antagonism-gop-lawmakers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1616991&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Washington establishment\u2014both Republican and Democratic\u2014shuns former President Donald Trump because he was an \u201coutsider\u201d who disrupted rules in Washington, according to Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-troy-nehls\">Troy Nehls<\/a> (R-Texas).<\/p>\n<p>Part of that establishment is the Congress, a \u201ccountry club\u201d that in Nehls\u2019 terms includes many individuals who \u201cwanted to determine who can come in\u201d and be part of it. One example, he said, is Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wyo.), who rose to become one of Trump\u2019s fiercest Republican critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump fought the country club,\u201d the lawmaker told The Epoch Times. \u201cHe comes on in and he changes the wallpaper. He changed the carpet, he changed the furniture, he changed it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made the country club about the American people. That\u2019s the difference,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe he changed politics in Washington forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congressman, a staunch Trump ally, called the change \u201crefreshing,\u201d and believes that many Americans are appreciative of this. But Trump\u2019s moves had also upset Cheney and other establishment figures, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe, her family and extended family, and some of their very close personal friends don\u2019t like guys like Donald Trump, because he came to Washington, and he shook it up,\u201d said Nehls.<\/p>\n<p> A Top Nemesis <\/p>\n<p>After serving three terms in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>\u2019s lone House seat, Cheney lost her re-election bid by 37 points to Trump-backed primary challenger Harriet Hageman, an outcome that Nehls, and many inside the GOP, saw as a repudiation of her sustained campaign against Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242549754-1200x831-1.jpg\"><\/a> Wyoming Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman waves as she takes a picture with children during a primary election night party in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Aug. 16, 2022. (Michael Smith\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Ten Republicans voted to impeach Trump last year. Since then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/with-cheneys-ouster-8-of-10-gop-trump-impeachment-backers-will-be-out-of-congress-in-2023_4669893.html\">eight of them<\/a>, Cheney included, are either due to retire or have suffered a defeat by party rivals endorsed by the former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington establishment\u2014both Republican and Democratic\u2014shuns former President Donald Trump because he was an \u201coutsider\u201d who disrupted rules in Washington, according to Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas). Part of that establishment is the Congress, a \u201ccountry club\u201d that in Nehls\u2019 terms includes many individuals who \u201cwanted to determine who can come in\u201d and be part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}