Former US Vice President Dick Cheney in 2011. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be trusted with power again,” Cheney, a Republican, urged 2024 voters to elect Trump’s Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, as president — a rare example of a prominent political leader placing principle over party.
Yet, while Cheney, who died on Monday, rejected Trump because of his use of “lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejec...
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