WASHINGTON: Former Vice President Dick Cheney excoriated Donald Trump in a new campaign video for his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney, calling the former president a “coward” and saying there has never been anyone who is a “greater threat to our republic.”
The video was released Thursday by Rep. Cheney’s reelection campaign, two weeks before a Republican primary election in Wyoming that the three-term congresswoman is bracing to lose. Echoing the criticism his daughter has made 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 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.
“He is a coward,” Dick Cheney said. “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.”
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately return an email seeking comment on the video.
Trump has made defeating Liz Cheney a top goal since she joined nine other House Republicans in voting to impeach him for inciting the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, at the US Capitol. She further infuriated him by becoming vice chair of the House committee investigating the riot.
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.
Dick Cheney, who served eight years as President George W. Bush’s vice president, has made no secret of his disdain for Trump and the members of his own party who, particularly in the wake of the Capitol riot, shied away from efforts to remove Trump from office.
In January, Dick Cheney and his daughter were the only two Republicans to attend a pro forma session of the House on the anniversary of riot at the Capitol, sitting together in the front row on the Republican side of the chamber.
“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.
Liz Cheney has faced other fallout from her vote to impeach Trump and join the Jan. 6 House committee. Several months after the impeachment vote, the House GOP dumped her from the No. 3 leadership post for her persistent repudiation of Trump’s election claims. Federal and state election officials and Trump’s attorney general have said there is no credible evidence 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 lauds 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 scared to do so.”
“There is nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure that Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office, and she will succeed,” Cheney said. “I proudly voted for my daughter. I hope you will, too.”
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Dick Cheney calls Trump a ‘coward’ in ad for daughter Liz
- Trump has made defeating Liz Cheney a top goal since she joined nine other House Republicans in voting to impeach him for inciting the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, at the US Capitol
- “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
Uganda’s President Museveni takes commanding election lead, deadly violence reported
KAMPALA: Veteran Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni held a commanding lead in early presidential election results announced on Friday as conflicting accounts emerged of violence reported after the vote.
Museveni, who is 81 and has ruled Uganda since seizing power in 1986, wants a decisive victory following a campaign marred by violence at opposition rallies.
Results announced by the electoral commission from Thursday’s election showed Museveni with 76.25 percent of the vote based on tallies from nearly half of polling stations. His main challenger, popular singer Bobi Wine, trailed with 19.85 percent and the remaining votes were split among six other candidates.
Museveni had told reporters after casting his ballot on Thursday that he expected to win with 80 percent of the vote “if there’s no cheating.”
Wine alleged mass fraud during the election, which was held under an Internet blackout that authorities said was needed to prevent “misinformation,” and called on supporters to protest.
The UN human rights office said last week the election was being held in an environment of “widespread repression and intimidation,” and recent political violence in neighboring Tanzania and Kenya amplified fears about unrest in Uganda.
VIOLENCE SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPITAL
There were no reports of protests during voting hours, but violence broke out overnight in the town of Butambala, about 55 km (35 miles) southwest of the capital Kampala.
Agather Atuhaire, a prominent human rights activist, said soldiers and police had killed at least 10 opposition supporters who had gathered at the house of parliamentarian Muwanga Kivumbi to follow the early results.
Citing an account from Kivumbi’s wife, human rights activist Zahara Nampewo, Atuhaire said the soldiers and police fired tear gas and then live bullets at people sheltering inside Kivumbi’s compound.
Reuters was not able to reach Nampewo, who Atuhaire said was too shaken to speak to the media.
Lydia Tumushabe, a local police spokesperson, disputed that account. She said opposition “goons” organized by Kivumbi had attacked a police station and carried machetes, axes and boxes of matches.
She said the police had fired in self-defense and that there were fatalities and injuries, without saying how many.
Kivumbi could not be reached for comment, and Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the circumstances of the violence.
WINE’S PARTY SAYS HE’S UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) party wrote on its X account late on Thursday that the military and police had surrounded Wine’s house in the capital Kampala, “effectively placing him under house arrest.”
Police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke told Reuters he was not aware of Wine being placed under house arrest.
Security forces confined Wine to his home for days after the last election in 2021, in which he was credited with 35 percent of the vote. The United States said that election was neither free nor fair, a charge rejected by the authorities.
During the campaign, Wine’s rallies were repeatedly interrupted by security forces firing tear gas and bullets. At least one person was killed in the violence and hundreds of opposition supporters were arrested.
The government defended those actions as a response to lawless behavior by opposition supporters.
Museveni, who is 81 and has ruled Uganda since seizing power in 1986, wants a decisive victory following a campaign marred by violence at opposition rallies.
Results announced by the electoral commission from Thursday’s election showed Museveni with 76.25 percent of the vote based on tallies from nearly half of polling stations. His main challenger, popular singer Bobi Wine, trailed with 19.85 percent and the remaining votes were split among six other candidates.
Museveni had told reporters after casting his ballot on Thursday that he expected to win with 80 percent of the vote “if there’s no cheating.”
Wine alleged mass fraud during the election, which was held under an Internet blackout that authorities said was needed to prevent “misinformation,” and called on supporters to protest.
The UN human rights office said last week the election was being held in an environment of “widespread repression and intimidation,” and recent political violence in neighboring Tanzania and Kenya amplified fears about unrest in Uganda.
VIOLENCE SOUTHWEST OF THE CAPITAL
There were no reports of protests during voting hours, but violence broke out overnight in the town of Butambala, about 55 km (35 miles) southwest of the capital Kampala.
Agather Atuhaire, a prominent human rights activist, said soldiers and police had killed at least 10 opposition supporters who had gathered at the house of parliamentarian Muwanga Kivumbi to follow the early results.
Citing an account from Kivumbi’s wife, human rights activist Zahara Nampewo, Atuhaire said the soldiers and police fired tear gas and then live bullets at people sheltering inside Kivumbi’s compound.
Reuters was not able to reach Nampewo, who Atuhaire said was too shaken to speak to the media.
Lydia Tumushabe, a local police spokesperson, disputed that account. She said opposition “goons” organized by Kivumbi had attacked a police station and carried machetes, axes and boxes of matches.
She said the police had fired in self-defense and that there were fatalities and injuries, without saying how many.
Kivumbi could not be reached for comment, and Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the circumstances of the violence.
WINE’S PARTY SAYS HE’S UNDER HOUSE ARREST
Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP) party wrote on its X account late on Thursday that the military and police had surrounded Wine’s house in the capital Kampala, “effectively placing him under house arrest.”
Police spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke told Reuters he was not aware of Wine being placed under house arrest.
Security forces confined Wine to his home for days after the last election in 2021, in which he was credited with 35 percent of the vote. The United States said that election was neither free nor fair, a charge rejected by the authorities.
During the campaign, Wine’s rallies were repeatedly interrupted by security forces firing tear gas and bullets. At least one person was killed in the violence and hundreds of opposition supporters were arrested.
The government defended those actions as a response to lawless behavior by opposition supporters.
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