{"id":898461,"date":"2021-10-19T15:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=898461"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:28:44","slug":"liz-cheney-calls-trumps-statement-bashing-colin-powell-a-day-after-his-death-pathetic-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liz-cheney-calls-trumps-statement-bashing-colin-powell-a-day-after-his-death-pathetic-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Cheney Calls Trump\u2019s Statement Bashing Colin Powell A Day After His Death \u2018Pathetic Garbage\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fliz-cheney-calls-trumps-statement-bashing-colin-powell-a-day-after-his-death-pathetic-garbage%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=898461&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"48.87853470437\">\n<p>Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called former President Donald Trump\u2019s statement trashing Colin Powell a day after he passed away \u201cpathetic garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powell, a retired chairman of the joint chiefs and former secretary of state, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/18\/general-colin-powell-dead-complications-coronavirus-covid-19-family-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died Monday<\/a> of coronavirus complications at 84. On Tuesday, Trump wrote a statement criticizing Powell\u2019s \u201cbig mistakes on Iraq\u201d and favorable media coverage after news of his death broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a classic RINO, if even that, always being the first to attack other Republicans,\u201d Trump added. \u201cHe made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney is one of Trump\u2019s most vocal Republican critics and is one of two serving on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/02\/january-6-commission-liz-cheney-vice-chair-republicans-move-oust-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Select Committee<\/a> investigating the Capitol riot in January. She called Powell a \u201cstatesman and a leader who loved and served our nation\u201d and shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1450099609641095172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> from former Vice President Dick Cheney honoring Powell on Monday. In part, the former vice president said, \u201cColin was a trailblazer and role model for so many: the son of immigrants who rose to become National Security Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Secretary of State.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7304566\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7304566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Secretary of State Colin Powell honors former President George H. W. Bush in the US Capitol rotunda in December 2018. (ALEX EDELMAN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Powell is not the first recently deceased American criticized by Trump. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/08\/25\/mccain-dies-at-age-81\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> unfavorably of the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona during his fight against brain cancer and months after he died.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/03\/19\/bolsonaro-white-house-trump-not-fan-mccain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Trump Doubles Down On Criticizing the late Sen. John McCain)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s criticism of Powell differed from the responses of other top Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader\/status\/1450113644340072452\">honored<\/a> Powell\u2019s \u201cdistinguished legacy of service\u201d and his \u201cimpressive decades-long career serving our nation,\u201d while McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicanleader.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/mcconnell-statement-on-colin-powell?peek=Zoq96MTAF47k3sl88fQIv3un8fcMCSfg2rmlnFL9rf5tznkK\">said<\/a> the former general and diplomat lived the \u201cquintessentially American story\u201d and commended how he \u201cdedicated his entire life to serving his country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called former President Donald Trump\u2019s statement trashing Colin Powell a day after he passed away \u201cpathetic garbage.\u201dPowell, a retired chairman of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}