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Dick Cheney (recording from 2018)
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During his tenure as US Vice President from 2001 to 2009, Dick Cheney was considered a hardliner.
As deputy for Republican President George W. Bush, he was one of the central figures behind the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Now the 81-year-old is dishing out against his party colleague Donald Trump.
"In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been a person who poses a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," he said in a minute-long campaign video for his daughter, Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney is vice chair of the investigative committee into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On that day, after a inflammatory speech by the then president, Trump supporters tried to prevent Congress from officially proclaiming Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the November 2020 election explained.
To this day, Trump maintains the long-disproven claim that he was deprived of victory through fraud.
»A real man would not lie to his supporters«
"He tried to steal the last election with lies and violence to stay in power after voters rejected him," says Dick Cheney in the video: "He's a coward.
A real man would not lie to his supporters.” Trump and most other Republicans know that he lost the election.
Liz Cheney is one of the most high-profile Trump critics among Republicans.
In the primaries in her state of Wyoming on August 16, she is threatened that her party will no longer nominate her for the congressional elections in November.
Trump has called for a competitor to be elected.
Dick Cheney said in the video that his daughter would "make sure Donald Trump never moves into the Oval Office again."
Liz Cheney told CNN on Thursday evening that Trump was guilty of "the gravest breach of duty by a president in the history of our country."
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