August 8, 2022
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in a campaign ad for his elder daughter, Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming)—who serves as Vice Chair of the January 6 Committee—said former president Donald Trump is a “coward” and the greatest threat to the nation in its 246-year history, reports The Washington Post.
“He is a coward,” Cheney says in the ad, which was released on Thursday, August 4. “A real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it, he knows it, and deep down I think most Republicans know it.”
The former president has repeatedly spread false claims of voter fraud and a rigged election, the Post reports. The House impeached him on a charge of inciting an insurrection for the January 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters intent on stopping the confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Dick Cheney says.
Liz Cheney was ousted from her spot as the House’s No. 3 Republican after she voted to impeach Trump after the January 6 insurrection.
“Liz is fearless. She never backs down from a fight,” her father says in the ad. “There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never near the Oval Office again. And she will succeed.”
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