Former vice president Dick Cheney, who served under former president George W. Bush, recently made an appearance in a campaign behalf to show his support for his daughter Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY).
In the video, Cheney targets 45th president Donald Trump by calling him a “threat to our Republic” and added that his daughter, Congresswoman Cheney, will do everything in her power to make sure that he never becomes president again.
“In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward, a real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters,” Cheney said in the campaign video.
“He lost his election and he lost big,” the former vice president insisted. “I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.”
Dick Cheney: “In our nation’s 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.”
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Cheney added that he and his wife are “so proud of Liz for standing up for the truth, doing what’s right, and honoring her oath to the constitution when so many in our party are too scared to do so.”
“Liz is fearless. She never backs down from a fight. There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office, and she will succeed.”
“I am Dick Cheney. I proudly voted for my daughter. I hope you will too,” he said.
Cheney is remembered in American history for being a key architect of the U.S. war in Iraq, which saw more than 4,400 American service members lose their lives alongside nearly 1 million Iraqis by the conflict’s end.
Cheney, like many members of the Bush administration, insisted that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was harboring “weapons of mass destruction” prior to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Cheney also alleged that Hussein was working with Al Qaeda before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
The claims were used by the administration as justification for war, though weapons of mass destruction were never found in Iraq, during or after the war, and the Iraqi government was found to have had nothing to do with 9/11. Mastermind Osama bin Laden was later discovered to have been hiding in a Pakistan estate when he was killed by American forces.
