Former Vice President Dick Cheney is joining a chorus of voices slamming GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump
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"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," Cheney told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
"I mean, religious freedom has been a very important part of our history and where we came from," Cheney added during Monday's interview.
A number of Trump's Republican presidential rivals have slammed Trump's idea to bar all Muslims, except those who are U.S. citizens living abroad, from entering the U.S.
The White House has also panned Trump's proposal, saying it goes against American values and plays into the hand of terrorists who want to paint the U.S. as going to war against Islam.
Trump furiously defended the idea during a campaign rally Monday night and in a round of interviews Tuesday morning in which he cast the idea as necessary in the fight against terrorism.
