'Ouch': Social media reacts to Liz Cheney’s swift fact-check of Trump running mate hopeful

12 May 2024

As the competition for Donald Trump's running mate contenders ramps up, vice presidential hopeful Noah Dakota Governor Doug Bergum addressed a crowd at the former president's New Jersey rally Saturday.

Bergum, who was previously Trump's 2024 GOP rival before dropping out of the race in December, told the crowd, "Working with President Trump as a governor was like having a beautiful breeze that your back," while working under the President Joe "Biden regulatory regime is like having a gale force wind in your face because the Biden bureaucrats are treating our constitutional republic like a dictatorship."

He later went on to tell the crowd, "There's a long standing American principle, and President Trump would never do this – we don't negotiate with terrorists."

Former US Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) — a staunch critic of the former president — swiftly replied to Burgum's remarks via X (formerly Twitter), writing, "Actually, @GovDougBurgum, Trump didn't just negotiate with terrorists, he invited the Taliban to Camp David on the anniversary of 9/11 and had his Secretary of State sign a surrender agreement with them."

Peter Wehner, columnist for the New York Times and The Atlantic, replied, "Well, there's that...."

Former US Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) commented, "Ouch. Nicely done, Liz."

April Baumgarten, a crime and courts reporter for The Forum, shared a 2019 New York Times report via X in response to the ex-GOP lawmaker's fact-check, writing, "I believe she is talking about this. The plan that was quickly brought together was just as abruptly canceled."

In the article titled, How Trump’s Plan to Secretly Meet With the Taliban Came Together, and Fell Apart, the Times' Peter Baker, Mujib Mashal and Michael Crowley reported:

[Trump] would not only bring the Taliban to Washington, but to Camp David, the crown jewel of the American presidency. The leaders of a rugged militant organization deemed terrorists by the United States would be hosted in the mountain getaway used for presidents, prime ministers and kings just three days before the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that led to the Afghan war.

However, the reporters noted:

What would have been one of the biggest headline-grabbing moments of his tenure was put together on the spur of the moment and then canceled on the spur of the moment. The usual National Security Council process was dispensed with; only a small circle of advisers was even clued in.

And even after it fell apart, Mr. Trump took it upon himself to disclose the secret machinations in a string of Saturday night Twitter messages that surprised not only many national security officials across the government but even some of the few who were part of the deliberations.

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