{"id":1591352,"date":"2022-08-05T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591352"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:31:39","slug":"dick-cheney-ignores-his-own-record-while-indicting-trump-as-worst-threat-to-american-democracy-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dick-cheney-ignores-his-own-record-while-indicting-trump-as-worst-threat-to-american-democracy-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Ignores His Own Record While Indicting Trump As Worst Threat To American Democracy Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdick-cheney-ignores-his-own-record-while-indicting-trump-as-worst-threat-to-american-democracy-ever%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1591352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed his own record launching an overseas war based on junk intelligence when he claimed Thursday that former President Donald Trump is the worst threat to the republic since the Declaration of Independence was signed. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, endangered Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, whom the state GOP no <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/11\/16\/wyoming-gop-no-longer-recognizes-liz-cheney-as-a-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longer recognizes<\/a> as a Republican, published a video of her father\u2019s endorsement. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our nation\u2019s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,\u201d said the former vice president under George W. Bush. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"YGYZz8Lz76RFl29kBWOxQvPZ6EW8Tn1XgLDe7IA0G4ToBblsghnmN1hKmpr0HukUNe3jwpvbCKSoJS4a5Hxiw3McMRC\"><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe lost his election, and he lost big,\u201d Dick Cheney added, despite Trump only losing the 2020 contest by less than 50,000 votes across three tipping-point states. Nevertheless, Cheney said, \u201cI know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 81-year-old longtime presidential adviser, whose Washington resume stretches from the Ford White House to both Bush administrations, appeared in the one-minute ad less than two weeks before Liz Cheney faces primary voters at the ballot box. The three-term incumbent is up against Trump-endorsed attorney Harriet Hageman, who, according to a July <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/17\/cheney-trails-trump-endorsed-challenger-by-22-points-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll <\/a>sponsored by the Casper-Star Tribune, is up by 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>During the second Bush administration, Dick Cheney was a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/03\/15\/dick-cheney-no-credibility-challenge-mike-pence-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chief architect<\/a>\u201d of the Iraq war, sending American troops into a conflict that would last decades without an exit strategy. The invasion was launched under the pretense that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) based on U.S. intelligence. The classified information cited by the White House to justify the war however, turned out to be one of the worst intelligence failures in modern American history, if not <em>the<\/em> worst failure.  <\/p>\n<p>The oldest living former vice president\u2019s assertion that Trump is the greatest threat to the republic in its existence, meanwhile, glosses over the dozens of historical figures who surely did more harm. Was Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy who oversaw a four-year insurrection, less of a threat than Donald Trump? Was John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Abraham Lincoln, less of a threat? What about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/american-revolution\/benedict-arnold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benedict Arnold<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unlikely that Dick Cheney\u2019s video will save Liz\u2019s House seat. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/14\/liz-cheney-has-single-handedly-destroyed-dick-cheneys-reputation-in-wyoming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to an Axios poll in March, less than 2 in 5 GOP Wyoming voters reported a favorable opinion of former vice president. Nearly half, 48 percent, said they view Dick Cheney unfavorably. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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