Dick Cheney lit into Vice President Mike Pence behind closed doors over the direction of the Trump administration’s foreign policy, flouting a set of agreed-upon subjects and forcing Pence on the defensive over President Donald Trump’s foreign policy
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At one point, a punch drunk Pence turned to his predecessor and inquisitor and joked, “Man, who wrote all these softball questions?” Cheney has served on AEI's board of trustees since 1996 and, although he left office with low approvalMorning Defense newsletterSign Up The civil but tense standoff put a spotlight on enduring fissures in the Republican Party over its foreign policy. Trump has rejected the interventionism and democracy-promotion espoused by George W. Bush, who talked during his second term of “ending tyranny in our time.
Cheney has largely avoided public criticism of Trump over the past two years, telling allies he does not want to cause additional headaches for his daughter, Liz, who became a congresswoman in 2016 and was elected to GOP leadership last year.
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