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Anonymous ID: d6aa25 March 11, 2019, 3:42 p.m. No.5629475   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9515 >>9561 >>9764 >>9847

Cheney challenges Pence on Trump's foreign policy

 

A chummy discussion between Vice President Mike Pence and former vice president Dick Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Donald Trump's foreign policy at a private gathering on Saturday, with Cheney comparing the president's instincts to those of his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama

 

Cheney's questions for Pence - which prompted Pence to joke about the lack of "softball" topics - provide a revealing glimpse into the churning and often strained debates inside the Republican Party, where longtime GOP hawks such as Cheney have increasingly balked at Trump's engagement with autocrats and his noninterventionist approach to U.S. military efforts in the Middle East.

 

The discussion also underscored Pence's comfort in acting as Trump's unwavering ally and spokesman before a crowd of powerful Republican skeptics and donors, with the vice president shrugging off most of Cheney's anxieties and praising Trump as a candid and transformational leader.

 

But the cracks between the more isolationist Trump wing and more hawkish Cheney wing of the Republican Party were on full display, unfolding in a conversation that was designed as a vice-presidential chat but became an almost academic exercise as Cheney peppered Pence with questions and Pence responded carefully but forcefully.

 

https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Former-vice-president-Cheney-challenges-Pence-on-13680278.php