Dick Cheney Thinks Trump’s Muslim Ban Is ‘Against Everything We Stand For’

FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in Washington. Cheney says he underwent heart surgery last week and is recuper... FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2010 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in Washington. Cheney says he underwent heart surgery last week and is recuperating. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) MORE LESS
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Even former Vice President Dick Cheney has denounced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration in America.

Cheney, a decisive conservative himself, said Monday on The Hugh Hewitt Show that the ban “goes against everything we stand for and believe in.”

“I think this whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we stand for and believe in. I mean, religious freedom has been a very important part of our history and where we came from,” Cheney said on a Monday appearance on the radio show. “A lot of people, my ancestors got here, because they were Puritans.”

Cheney called Trump’s plan a “mistaken notion” and said to solve refugee and immigration problems, the U.S. must examine why they need to leave their countries in the first place.

“It’s a serious problem to make certain that the people coming in don’t represent ISIS. You’ve got to set up a vetting process,” Cheney said.

Listen to Cheney here. The comments on the ban start at 19:50.

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  1. Dick Cheney: Yet another liberal RINO helping Obummer complete the socialist Sharia takeover of America.

  2. Here’s how far we’ve gotten: even Darth Cheney thinks Trump has gone too far. And Cheney has committed long-drop worthy crimes against Muslims.

  3. Avatar for trajan trajan says:

    Wow. When you’ve gone so far right that even Dick Cheney winces, you’ve pretty much run out runway.

  4. Today’s Republican Party doesn’t believe in religious freedom anymore.

  5. Cheney wants W’s bro to be Pres so he can get in on the sweet money action again.

    Natch.

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