Glenn Greenwald explains why 'Dick and Liz Cheney hate Trump'

In Wyoming, Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republican members of the House’s 1/6 Commission, is facing a big uphill battle to retain her seat in a primary election that is a week from Tuesday. Rep. Cheney’s down big to her GOP challenger in the state, and as a result, her campaign called in some help from her father, Dick Cheney. The former VP’s ad for his daughter goes hard against Donald Trump in an apparent attempt to justify Liz’s position on the 1/6 committee:

“In our nation’s 246 year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.” Dick Cheney pic.twitter.com/erBPBNy8ah

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 4, 2022

That hyperbolic ad focusing on Trump is just the latest example of a Cheney being triggered by Trump. Glenn Greenwald diagnosed the reason why the “Cheneys hate Trump,” and it has nothing to do with Trump being a grave threat to the nation:

And here's the part of the discussion on *why* the Cheneys — with the Bushes — hate Trump so much. It's not because they're noble patriots who cherish the rule of law (😱).

It's because Trump ran – and won – denouncing their neoconservative worldview, now the Dem worldview: pic.twitter.com/hYUhtGwE5V

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 6, 2022

The above video was the culmination of a Greenwald thread that started a couple of days ago:

Replace the phrase "just as destructive as" with "infinitely worse than" and this sentence will become accurate: https://t.co/GbCgMGcJMV

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2022

By whatever metric one uses — civil liberties assaults, attacks on the rule of law, support for savage tyrants, sheer death and destruction — nothing compares to what was done via bipartisan neoconservatism during the first decade of the War on Terror:https://t.co/Kfd9E0fuqT

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2022

It was a widespread consensus of liberals from 2001-2008 that Dick Cheney wasn't just misguided or politically wrong, but was a tyrannical monster, a war criminal and deeply corrupt goon (Halliburton).

Do they ever ask themselves why he now harbors so much contempt for Trump?

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2022

I'm firmly against holding someone responsible for the crimes and bad acts of their father or other relatives.

But Liz Cheney was a vehement and unyielding supporter of everything her father did – the worst of the worst – and continues to defend those policies through to today.

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2022

The primary purpose of isolating Trump as an unprecedented, singular evil is to allow the war criminals, corrupt scumbags and lawless and sociopathic monsters who preceded him to find absolution and redemption with the cheap tactic of opposing Trump. This one tweet shows it all: pic.twitter.com/mX6WM8opDv

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 4, 2022

What's the liberal explanation for why Dick and Liz Cheney hate Trump?

Is it that this duo — once called Nazis — are actually noble patriots of integrity and law?

Or is it that Trump campaigned on the most vocal denunciation of neocon foreign policy since Ron Paul – and won?

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) August 5, 2022

It’s pretty amazing how Dick Cheney went from being “Darth Vader” to being lauded by the Left and others for warning about a “biggest threat to the Republic ever.”

Brilliant thread, but this tweet sums it all up. YOU may not hate Trump because he stood up to the neocon foreign policy, forever-war establishment. But that’s exactly why Liz and Dick Cheney hate Trump. https://t.co/qx91smGYYE

— John William Sherrod (@jwsherrod) August 5, 2022