The video was released Thursday by Rep. Cheney’s re-election campaign, two weeks before the Republican primary in Wyoming, which the three-term congresswoman is poised to lose. Echoing his daughter’s criticism of Trump, Dick Cheney denounced him as a danger to the country through his relentless lies about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been a person who poses a greater threat to our democracy than Donald Trump,” Cheney said. “He tried to steal the last election by using lies and violence to stay in power after the voters had rejected him. “He’s a coward,” said Dick Cheney. “A real man would not lie to his supporters. He lost his election and lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know it.” A spokesman for Trump did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the video. Trump has made the defeat of Liz Cheney a top goal since she joined nine other House Republicans in voting to impeach him for sedition on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol. It angered him further as he became vice-chairman of the House committee investigating the rebellion. Trump endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman in Cheney’s primary. As the congresswoman has focused her energy on digging into Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 violence, Hageman has made inroads in the state, courting small, rural crowds in the traditional mold of Wyoming politicking, an approach more akin to what Cheney herself used. a crowded Republican municipal field to win the state’s lone House seat in 2016. Dick Cheney, who served eight years as President George W. Bush’s vice president, has made no secret of his disdain for Trump and members of his own party, who, especially after the Capitol uprising, shunned efforts to remove Trump. from the office. In January, Dick Cheney and his daughter were the only two Republicans to attend a pro forma House session on the anniversary of the riots on Capitol Hill, sitting together in the front row on the Republican side of the chamber. “Well, it’s not a leadership like any of the people I knew when I was here for 10 years,” Dick Cheney said after that gathering, noting the absence of other Republicans in the chamber he was a member of in the 1980s. Liz Cheney faced other fallout from her Jan. 6 vote to impeach Trump and join the House committee. Several months after the impeachment vote, the House GOP fired her from the No. 3 leadership post because of her persistent repudiation of Trump’s electoral claims. Federal and state election officials and Trump’s attorney general have said there is no credible evidence that the 2020 election was tainted. Asked if he was disappointed by the move, Dick Cheney replied: “My daughter can take care of herself.” In the new video, the former vice president praises his daughter for “standing up for the truth, doing what’s right, honoring her oath to the constitution when so many in our party are too afraid to do so.” “There is nothing more important that he will ever do than to lead the effort to make sure that Donald Trump is never near the Oval Office again, and he succeeds,” Cheney said. “I voted with pride for my daughter. I hope you do too.”
