Now 79, the previous vice chairman stays a detailed adviser to his daughter, who's the third-ranking Republican within the Home, a job Mr. Cheney h
Now 79, the previous vice chairman stays a detailed adviser to his daughter, who’s the third-ranking Republican within the Home, a job Mr. Cheney himself held. Ms. Cheney just lately tweeted a photograph of her cowboy-hatted father sporting a blue surgical masks, which she captioned “Dick Cheney says WEAR A MASK. #realmenwearmasks.” The message was taken as quasi-subtle defiance at Mr. Trump’s cussed refusal on the time to do the identical.
Each Cheneys seem steadfast and aligned as ever of their hawkish overseas coverage positions. Consultant Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, stated Ms. Cheney, like her father, adhered to an “internationalist view” extra according to the standard Republican perspective than Mr. Trump tended to be. “The Cheneys are massive believers in allies, whereas the president is way more America First, or America alone,” Mr. Cole stated.
Whereas he has stated little publicly, Mr. Cheney appears to share his daughter’s impatience with many components of Mr. Trump’s strategy. He barely hid his doubtful view of the administration’s overseas coverage throughout a tense public discussion board with Vice President Mike Pence at a conservative donor retreat in Georgia final yr.
“We’re getting right into a state of affairs when our buddies and allies world wide that we rely upon are going to lack confidence in us,” Mr. Cheney reportedly instructed Mr. Pence, in accordance with a transcript of the off-the-record dialogue obtained by The Washington Submit. “I fear that the underside line of that form of an strategy is we’ve an administration that appears much more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan.”
However not one of the assaults from the Cheneys have provoked any response from the White Home. Ms. Cheney has leavened her critiques with pointed ridicule of a few of Mr. Trump’s favourite targets, together with the so-called Squad of 4 progressive Home freshmen, all girls of shade. She was crucial of efforts to question the president and voted in opposition to the articles. Liz and Dick Cheney hosted a fund-raiser final yr for the Republican Nationwide Committee and the president’s re-election marketing campaign. Each declined to be interviewed.
For his half, Mr. Romney stated he was much less involved with how he can be remembered in historical past than by his circle of relatives. He cautioned, nonetheless, that his present age — 73 — was too younger to dwell on the previous.
“I’m simply getting began with this Senate factor,” Mr. Romney stated.