"Such is life-and death-in the Trump years. You never know who will show up to pay respects at gatherings of this sort, or what odd alliances and strange bedfellows will reveal themselves. Who gets invited and who doesn't? Whose attendance will Donald Trump take as an act of disloyalty, or treason? Wait, didn't that one die during the Obama years?"
"This was one of those pre-Trump Washington-reunion scenes: Cheney, the not-unpolarizing 46th vice president of the United States, was memorialized yesterday before processions of power mourners at the National Cathedral. Guests included former Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, former speakers of the House (John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi), Senate leaders (John Thune, Mitch McConnell), and a bipartisan gallery of lawmakers, some of them Trump's most persistent antagonists in Congress (including the House January 6 select committee alumni Adam Kinzinger, Jamie Raskin, and Adam Schiff)."
Rachel Maddow sat at Dick Cheney's funeral beside Anthony Fauci and near James Carville, illustrating unexpected cross-aisle presences at the event. Political norms shifted during the Trump years, making attendance choices fraught with questions of loyalty and disloyalty. The Cheney memorial at the National Cathedral drew former presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden, former House speakers John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, Senate leaders John Thune and Mitch McConnell, and a bipartisan group including Adam Kinzinger, Jamie Raskin, and Adam Schiff. Every living vice president attended the front pews except J.D. Vance, who, like Donald Trump, was not invited. Cheney and his family viewed Trump as a mortal threat and both father and daughter publicly expressed contempt.
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