Don Gagne
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Included four former vice presidents and numerous members of Congress past and present, Republicans and Democrats, George W. Bush recalled Cheney as his closest White House advisor in times of crisis, but said Cheney never ceased being that guy from Wyoming.
President Trump did not attend.
Cheney's daughter Liz spoke and made this brief reference to her father's strong criticism of Trump in recent years.
Dick Cheney's resume includes being a GOP congressman, presidential chief of staff, defense secretary, and vice president, always wearing his conservative politics on his sleeve.
But he rejected President Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen and was appalled when a pro-Trump mob rioted at the U.S.
Capitol in a bid to overturn that election.
He supported his daughter, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, when she voted to impeach Trump and campaigned for her when Trump worked to defeat her when she ran for re-election in Wyoming.
In TV spots on her behalf, Dick Cheney called Trump a threat to the republic and a coward.
Liz Cheney lost that election.
It was her father's last public act in American politics.
I've been in and around Allegheny County these past couple of days and in West Mifflin where a key U.S. Steel facility is located. So let's start there with the local mayor. His name is Chris Kelly.
I've been in and around Allegheny County these past couple of days and in West Mifflin where a key U.S. Steel facility is located. So let's start there with the local mayor. His name is Chris Kelly.
I've been in and around Allegheny County these past couple of days and in West Mifflin where a key U.S. Steel facility is located. So let's start there with the local mayor. His name is Chris Kelly.
And he made it clear they were tears of joy he's talking.
And he made it clear they were tears of joy he's talking.
And he made it clear they were tears of joy he's talking.
Yeah, he's lived it. He grew up in a nearby town where he says it was decades of decline. He says one mill after another closed and more than 200,000 jobs disappeared.