"In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," declared the elder Cheney. The 46th vice president of the United States complained that the man who had been the 45th president and would become the 47th "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. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know."
"Perhaps there were Republicans who understood that Cheney was right. But they offered no evidence that they cared-and a good portion of the blame for that lay with Cheney himself. By 2022, the GOP had been acclimated to abuses of executive power not just by Trump but by Cheney and his associates during the years when the senior Republican manipulated world affairs as the most powerful -and secretive- vice president in American history."
During his final years, Dick Cheney openly opposed the Republican Party's evolution and strongly criticized Donald Trump as an unprecedented threat to the republic. In a 2022 television ad supporting daughter Liz Cheney, he accused Trump of trying to steal the last election using lies and violence and called him a coward who lied to supporters. The Republican Party had become acclimated to abuses of executive power fostered both by Trump and Cheney's earlier influence as a powerful, secretive vice president. Cheney's interventions, including endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024, confirmed his marginalization and failed to prevent Liz Cheney's primary defeat in Wyoming.
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