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Trump is not a conservative. He is radical.

Trump dodged a bullet. Let’s hope the world does, too – and he loses

Never before have so many alarm bells been rung about a Republican candidate by so many conservatives. I hope against hope that Donald Trump is not elected this week.

  • George Brandis

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Backers in high places: Liz Cheney.

Bush backs Cheney after Trump backs her rival

Donald Trump critic Liz Cheney has been endorsed as a Republican candidate by former US president George W Bush. Meanwhile, Trump has backed Cheney’s challenger for preselection.

  • Jill Colvin
Former President George W. Bush, right, wipes his eyes next to former first lady Laura Bush, after he spoke at a memorial for the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 on September 11, 2021.

‘Children of the same foul spirit’: George W. Bush compares political extremists to 9/11 terrorists

Bush’s compared what he called the unity of Americans after the attacks on September 11, 2001, with the disunity of the present day.

  • Bill Sanderson
Republican Liz Cheney

Republicans put Liz Cheney ‘on notice’ for voting to impeach Trump

The daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney faces blowback for joining nine other Republicans in voting to impeach Trump.

  • Mead Gruver
Dick Cheney is among the senior military figures who issued the warning to Donald Trump.

Extraordinary warning to Trump against use of military over election by former Pentagon chiefs

All 10 living former secretaries of defence, including senior Republicans Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld warned the US was at risk of moving into “dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory”.

  • Robert Burns
Dick Cheney, Mike Pence.

'More like Obama than Reagan': Cheney challenges Pence on Trump's foreign policy

At a recent closed-door event, former vice-president Dick Cheney pressed Mike Pence on Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions, comparing the President's approach to Barack Obama.

  • Robert Costa and Ashley Parker
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Christian Bale arriving at the Golden Globes.

Christian Bale's Golden Globes speech draws ire from Liz Cheney

The daughter of Dick Cheney, who Bale portrayed in Vice, was not pleased with the comparisons to the prince of darkness.

Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in Vice.

Vice, a film about Dick Cheney and George Bush, made for the Trump era

The film is a a tirade against the abuse of power and an exposition of the terrible consequences for ordinary people of such abuse.

  • Nick O'Malley
'Weirdest interview ever': Republican figures pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen

'Weirdest interview ever': Republican figures pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen

Days after it emerged the Borat comedian had pranked Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney, another prominent Republican has come forward.

  • Rachel Olding

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