MELVILLE, New York — Last week former Congresswoman Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris for president, despite the fact that there are almost no policy issues on which the two agree. Said Cheney, “As a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this. Because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris.” Two days later, her father Dick Cheney, who served as vice president under George W. Bush, also said he would be voting for Harris. He stated, “In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump…He can never be trusted with power again. As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution.”
Dick Cheney was a strong supporter of Israel, and in 2008 he traveled to Israel, where he met Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Said Cheney at the time, “Our two countries have been more than just strong allies. We’ve been friends, special friends. Both our nations share the ideals of liberty, equality, human dignity and representative government.” In 2018, the former vice president sat for an interview with an Israeli anti-terrorism expert, Erran Morad, who Cheney did not realize was actually actor and writer Sacha Baron Cohen. Cohen’s satirical interview was taken as legitimate by Cheney, as evidenced by this back and forth–Morad: Why is it that people don’t give you enough credit for the many ways that you improved interrogation and humane torture? Cheney: Well, you’d have to ask them. I… We had a lot of very good people working for us. Morad: Torturers, or…? Cheney: Uh, interrogators. Morad: Sure, sure. Yeah. Cheney: We don’t call it torture. What did Sacha Baron Cohen, as Erran Morad, have Dick Cheney autograph at the end of their interview?
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Mark D. Zimmerman is the author of a series of Jewish trivia books, under the title RASHI, RAMBAM and RAMALAMADINGDONG: A Quizbook of Jewish Trivia Facts & Fun