'There has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,' the former VP said. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.' FOX13
, calling the former president a "coward" and saying there has never been anyone who is a "greater threat to our republic."
"In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Cheney said. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. Trump has endorsed lawyer Harriet Hageman in Cheney's primary. As the congresswoman has focused her energy on digging in to Trump's role surrounding the Jan. 6 violence, Hageman has barnstormed the state, courting small, rural crowds in the traditional mold of Wyoming politicking, an approach more like the one Cheney herself used to top a crowded Republican primary field to win the state's lone House seat in 2016.
"Well, it’s not a leadership that resembles any of the folks I knew when I was here for 10 years," Dick Cheney said after that gathering, noting the absence of other Republicans in the chamber of which he was a member in the 1980s.