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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Isabel Keane

Bush hails his former VP Dick Cheney as ‘devoted to protecting the interests of the US’ at funeral where Trump and Vance were not invited

Former President George W. Bush remembered his Vice President, Dick Cheney, as being “devoted to protecting the United States,” in a eulogy at his funeral in Washington, D.C., Thursday, which was attended by former presidents and vice presidents – but not President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

Cheney, who served under Bush from 2001 to 2009 as one of the most influential – and controversial – vice presidents in modern American history, died earlier this month aged 84.

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