At a marketing campaign occasion on Thursday evening, Donald Trump informed Tucker Carlson he thought former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney—an outspoken Trump critic—was a “radical war hawk.” He added “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.”
Friday morning, Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee was on CNN to stump for Trump, and host Jim Acosta requested about these feedback. Burchett was initially dismissive of the remark as anti-war rhetoric.
“What he says, ‘nine barrels shooting at her.’ That obviously evokes images of a firing squad,” Acosta repeated. “It evokes pictures of an execution. Does it not? Why? Why would he say 9 barrels?
“I don’t know why he would say nine—I didn’t know there were nine barrels … in a firing squad, quite honestly,” Burchett stated. “So I’m a little at a little loss at that,” including that the Cheney household has profited off of wars. And that struggle profiting is completely true, however not what Trump was saying.
“Isn’t it a bit much, though, for Donald Trump?” Acosta continued. “If you want to use that generous interpretation, to criticize Liz Cheney and say, you know, she should be sent off into battle if she’s going to start wars, when Donald Trump claimed he had bone spurs and didn’t go to Vietnam?”
“Well, I don’t know about all that, actually, Jim, I, he did apparently have that,” Burchett stumbled, most likely realizing that “old cadet bone spurs” throwing rocks in glass homes wasn’t the very best protection both. “And that’s, that is a reason to not go. Obviously a lot of people didn’t go.”
Burchett then retreated to saying his father and uncles went to Vietnam, including “Those kind[s] of statements were made. It’s close to the end of the election.”
Pathetic solutions to critical questions on violence is type of Burchett’s model. In 2023, when requested on the steps of the Tennessee capitol what state legislators have been going to do about the newest mass taking pictures at a Christian college in Nashville, Burchett responded, “We’re not gonna repair it.”
I suppose that’s not simply Burchett’s model, however the complete Republican Celebration at this level.
