Liberal media retailers have been accused of taking former President Trump out of context to assert he was calling for violence towards former Home Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., when he was truly mocking her as somebody who pushes for battle from the comforts of Washington, D.C.
Drudge Report’s frontpage headline on Friday morning declared in purple font with all caps, “TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY’S EXECUTION,” and linked to a social media submit from far-left commentator Aaron Rupar that confirmed a partial clip from the previous president’s Glendale, Arizona occasion on Thursday.
“I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump is heard saying within the clip that set the tone for MSNBC and CNN’s Friday morning programming.
However many felt it was purposely minimize off earlier than Trump’s anti-war message and Fox Information contributor Mollie Hemingway shortly responded to Rupar’s clip.
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The Trump marketing campaign mentioned it was clear that the previous president was “explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them.” (Left: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP through Getty Pictures; Proper: William B. Plowman/NBC through Getty Pictures)
“Wow, I’m so shocked that propagandist Rupar cut it off before this line: ‘They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies.’ She always wanted to go to war with people,’” Hemingway wrote.
Certainly, Trump’s feedback following the temporary clip shared by Rupar was minimize off earlier than the previous president completed his thought.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people,” Trump mentioned.
Rupar is a broadly adopted, frequent poster on X, and can also be a rabid supporter of Democrats.
“FOX & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade known as it “totally irresponsible” to recommend that Trump was calling for Cheney’s execution. Kilmeade mentioned he noticed the complete clip and didn’t really feel the feedback had been even notably newsworthy, because it was merely Trump suggesting he’s towards sending Individuals to battle.
“Little did I know this was going to be abused like that,” Kilmeade mentioned.
The “irresponsible” framing utilized by Drudge was echoed by different liberal retailers, as each MSNBC and CNN adopted the script.
CNN’s web site featured a front-page headline, “Trump rages that ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon.” CNN’s Jim Acosta sparred with a Republican visitor on Friday morning in regards to the clip, saying it was past the pale for Trump to name for Cheney to be successfully fired upon.
Politico White Home bureau chief Jonathan Lemire, who can also be an MSNBC host, accused Trump of utilizing “violent war imagery” to criticize Cheney.
“Dangerous rhetoric there,” Lemire mentioned on MSNBC Friday morning after airing a partial clip of the soundbite.
CNN’s Kasie Hunt mentioned Trump was going after Cheney with “violent rhetoric” and “some of his darkest language yet.”
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Liberal media retailers have been accused of taking former President Trump out of context to assert he was calling for violence towards former Home Rep. Liz Cheney. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
“Four days out from Election Day and former President Trump is escalating his violent rhetoric, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, the former congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be fired upon,” Hunt instructed CNN viewers.
“Of course, violent language, it’s not new for Trump,” Hunt added. “This stark imagery represents an escalation at a tense moment when the country is on edge.”
Later Friday morning, CNN’s on-screen chyron acknowledged: “Trump escalates violent rhetoric with new attack on Liz Cheney” and Acosta additionally minimize off the clip the place Rupar did.
The New York Occasions featured a narrative headlined, “Trum attacks Liz Cheney using violent war imagery” and the Washington Put up went with “Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face.’”
Reuters wrote that “Trump suggested Liz Cheney should face firing squad for her foreign policy stance.”
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro additionally posted footage of Trump’s feedback and wrote, “It is simply a lie to claim that Trump was calling for Cheney’s assassination here. A lie.”
Cheney herself responded to Rupar’s clip, writing “this is how dictators free nations.”
“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,” Cheney added.
Fox Information contributor Johnny Joey Jones fired again at Cheney, “As one of the marines sent to fight your daddy’s bulls–t war I just need you to know active duty and veterans say this about you and those like you all the time. We are petty, vindictive, cruel or unstable. We’re amputated, mangled, stressed and fed up.”
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Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) at a city corridor on the Royal Oak Music Theatre on October 21, 2024 in Royal Oak, Michigan. ( Sarah Rice/Getty Pictures)
Hemingway additionally responded to Cheney.
“Not that any of us are surprised about how much you will lie, but he was saying you are willing to send young men and women off to war from the safety of the DC suburbs,” Hemingway wrote.
Joe Walsh, a former GOP congressman who’s a fierce Trump opponent, acknowledged the framing was deceptive.
“Trump did NOT call for Liz Cheney to be executed. This is what’s so wrong with our politics today,” Walsh wrote.
“This short clip is so deceptive. Trump is NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line. He’s not. Listen to the entirety of what he said. In Trump’s typically stupid, ugly fashion, he’s trying to make a point about Cheney’s stance on war,” Walsh added. “But Aaron (who I like & respect), by posting ONLY this 11 second clip, makes it look like he’s calling for her to be executed. He’s not.”
The Trump marketing campaign mentioned it was clear what was truly being defined throughout the Arizona rally.
“President Trump was clearly explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves,” Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt mentioned in an announcement.
“These are willful lies from the hack media, the Kamala Harris campaign, and the queen of forever wars, Liz Cheney herself. President Trump was quite obviously depicting her as deployed to a war zone, just as she’s done to countless American men and women she sent off to die while she rested her feet on her desk in Washington, D.C. He even described her as being armed with her own rifle, which is how you know the ‘firing squad’ descriptions are abject fabrications and just liberal rage porn,” Trump 2024 senior advisor Tim Murtaugh instructed Fox Information Digital.
Cheney, the previous vice chair of the Home choose committee on Jan. 6, misplaced re-election to a Trump-backed Republican main challenger within the 2022 election. She has been an outspoken critic of the previous president and has campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox Information Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
