Donald Trump fantasized about weapons being put within the face of former Rep. Liz Cheney throughout a marketing campaign occasion on Thursday night time.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her where the rifle’s standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about—you know when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump stated.
Cheney responded to Trump’s feedback after the video was posted on-line.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” she wrote on X. “They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Ian Sams, a senior adviser for the Harris-Walz marketing campaign, slammed Trump’s remarks in an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday morning.
“Think about the contrast between these two candidates: You have Donald Trump, who’s talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad and you have Vice President [Kamala] Harris talking about sending one to her Cabinet,” Sams stated.
Trump’s feedback come simply days after he tried to forged himself as a “protector” of ladies, “whether the women like it or not.” The venue for Trump’s assault on Cheney was an interview with disgraced former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson, who has a lengthy historical past of misogynist remarks.
Trump has expressed anger at Cheney for crossing the aisle and endorsing Harris’ presidential marketing campaign. Cheney has stated she backs Harris, regardless of disagreeing together with her on a bunch of points, as a result of Trump represents a menace to American democracy.
At a marketing campaign occasion in Wisconsin in early October, Cheney particularly referred to as out Trump’s actions throughout and after the Jan.6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“He praised the rioters. He did not condemn them. That’s who Donald Trump is.”
Cheney was the vice chair of the Jan. 6 congressional committee that investigated the assault and was one among solely two Republicans (the opposite was former Rep. Adam Kinzinger) keen to cross the aisle to take action. She was later defeated in Wyoming’s Republican congressional major by a pro-Trump Republican, Rep. Harriet Hageman.
Each Cheney and Kinzinger additionally voted to question Trump for his function in inciting the Capitol assault. The vote was Trump’s second impeachment.
The previous representatives are joined by a bunch of former Republican officers—together with some who served in Trump’s administration—who are actually supporting Harris’ marketing campaign.
