Donald Trump ranted about Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), on Friday after the 2 threw their help behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign this week.
“Dick Cheney is an irrelevant RINO, alongside along with his daughter, who misplaced by the most important margin within the Historical past of Congressional Races!,” wrote the GOP nominee on his Truth Social platform.
His publish comes on the identical day that Liz Cheney revealed that her father, who as soon as endorsed Trump’s 2016 campaign earlier than changing into a harsh critic of the previous president, would be voting for the Democratic nominee within the fall.
Dick Cheney, who served as former President George W. Bush’s VP, later released a statement confirming that he’s backing Harris and warned that Trump can “by no means be trusted with energy once more” as a result of his efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.
Trump, in his Reality Social publish, railed about Dick Cheney not pardoning his ex-chief of employees I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby who in 2007 was convicted of 4 felony fees of perjury and obstruction of justice associated to a CIA leak scandal.
“They couldn’t get Scooter Libby, who did a lot for them (however was so unfairly handled!), PARDONED. I did it!” wrote Trump, who pardoned Libby in 2018 (Bush didn’t pardon Libby and later claimed that the choice made his VP “angry”).
Trump continued, “He’s the King of Limitless, Nonsensical Wars, losing Lives and Trillions of {Dollars}, similar to Comrade Kamala Harris. I’m the Peace President, and solely I’ll cease World Battle III!”
He went on to criticize Liz Cheney for her work as former vice chair of the Jan. 6 committee earlier than pushing a variety of false claims about the committee and who was “responsible” for security on the Capitol on the day of the lethal riot.
Dick Cheney, along with his Harris endorsement on Friday, joined a number of Republicans formerly on the GOP presidential ticket who’ve signaled they gained’t be voting for Trump in November.
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