No, Liz Cheney did not call Republicans ‘satires of men’ | Fact check

A Sept. 2 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows what appears to be a post on X, formerly Twitter, from former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney referencing an incident at Arlington National Cemetery involving former President Donald Trump’s team.
“Can you imagine what Republican leaders would say if Kamala Harris assaulted a service person at Arlington so she could illegally use dead veterans for a photo op where she smiled and gave a thumbs up over their graves?” reads text in the purported post. “You are satires of men.”
Between this post and similar ones circulating on Facebook and on Threads, the image was shared more than 100 times in a week. It also was reposted thousands of times on X.
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The image is a fabrication. That’s not Cheney’s account. The image originated from an account that shares fictitious posts attributed to high-profile people and labels them as parodies.
During Trump’s Aug. 26 visit to Arlington, members of his entourage became involved in an altercation with a cemetery official over photography restrictions in an area where recently interred soldiers are buried. The subsequent posting by Trump’s campaign of video captured from that area drew criticism from veterans and a public rebuke from the U.S. Army.
One of Trump’s mostconsistent critics over time has been Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman who voted to impeach him after the Capitol riot of Jan. 6,2021, and served as vice chair of the House committee that investigated the attack.
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But the X post attributed to her in the screenshot isn’t real. That’s not her account, as indicated in the purported post by the misspelled username “@Liz_Choney.” An account by that name does not exist. Her real handle on the platform is @Liz_Cheney, and there is no trace of that post from that account.
The image was first posted Aug. 29 by an account that fabricates posts from famous people. Its bio states, “Most of the images we share are parodies,” and this one originally was identified that way. In the version shared to Facebook, however, that notation was cropped out. So was the fabricated timestamp, “Yo 29, 2024,” another hint at the post’s satirical nature.
As of Sept. 4, the only post Cheney shared since Trump’s visit to Arlington came on Sept. 3, when she called a video shared by commentator Tucker Carlson “pro-Nazi propaganda.”
The Facebook post is an example of “stolen satire,” where content created as satire and presented that way originally is captured and reposted in a way that makes it appear to be legitimate news. As a result, readers of the second-generation post are misled, as was the case here. 
USA TODAY previously debunked a similar false claim that Cheney called Trump a “junkyard hog” and President Joe Biden “the older guy” in a post.
USA TODAY reached out to several social media users who shared the claim but none who responded provided evidence of the X post’s authenticity.
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