Donald Trump, in an escalation of the violent language he has used to target his political opponents, suggested turning weapons on former Representative Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent critics within the party.
“She is an extremist war hawk. Let’s put it with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at it, okay? The former president said in a conversation with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a campaign event in Arizona on Thursday night.
“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when guns are pointed at her face.”
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits down for a conversation with Tucker Carlson during his live tour at Desert Diamond Arena on October 31, 2024 in Phoenix.
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Carlson had asked Trump if it was strange to see Cheney campaign against him. Perhaps one of the most vocal Republicans opposed to another Trump presidency, the former Wyoming congresswoman has endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris.
Trump called Cheney a “deranged person” and hurled other insults at her, calling her “very stupid,” a “stupid person” and an “idiot.”
She responded to Trump’s comments overnight, writing on X: “This is how tyrants destroy free countries.”
“They threaten to kill anyone who speaks against them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to A A petty, vengeful, cruel, unstable man Who wants to be a tyrant?
Earlier, after Harris’ campaign and other Trump critics on social media attacked his comment, Trump’s campaign said he was “talking about how Liz Cheney wants to send America’s sons and daughters to fight in wars even though she has never been in a war.”
In another statement, his campaign said that Trump “was clear Description of the combat area“.
Trump has repeatedly vowed to investigate or prosecute his political rivals, including Cheney, as well as election workers, journalists and left-wing Americans, among others, and has said the military could be used against what he calls “radical left-wing lunatics” if that happens. Election Day unrest.
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Trump also attacked Cheney The Hill newspaper reported last week in Michigan that her father and former Vice President Dick Cheney supported the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq.
“Kamala is campaigning with a Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who wants to invade almost every Muslim country on the planet,” Trump said at the time in Novi, Michigan. Let me tell you that Muslims in our country see this. That, and they know it.
In front of a small audience of voters in Pennsylvania, Democratic Vice Presidential Vice President Kamala Harris held a political conversation with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, along with Bulwark game publisher and Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, at The People’s Light in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Monday, October 21, 2024.
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“Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs — millions — and this is the person Kamala is campaigning with.”
Trump’s use of violent language is nothing new. As CNN noted, during his first presidential campaign in 2015 and 2016, Trump suggested that someone would object to him. He deserves to be “roughed” He said he would like to punch another person in the face.
Harris criticized his threats of violence and rhetoric, speaking this week from the Ellipse in Washington, where Trump delivered his speech on January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot.
“Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him. People he calls “the enemy within.” “This is not a presidential candidate thinking about how to make your life better,” Harris said in her remarks Tuesday night. “This is an unstable person, obsessed with revenge, consumed by injustice and seeking unchecked power.”
As the days dwindle before next week’s election, the Trump campaign has come under fire for what many describe as increasingly racist, violent and sexist rhetoric being delivered from rally platforms and on social media.
Earlier this week, the former president declared that he was “not a Nazi,” denying accusations of tyranny after former White House chief of staff John Kelly said in interviews that Trump, when he was president, expressed admiration for the loyalty of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi generals.
The Trump campaign is also dealing with the fallout from a rally at Madison Square Garden last weekend, where several speakers and guests hurled racist and crude rhetoric at Republican supporters.
Trump was also criticized for comments he made Wednesday about protecting women whether they “like it or not.”
Speaking on stage Wednesday evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, he told supporters that his aides had urged him to stop using the phrase because it was “inappropriate.”
He said he then told those aides, “Okay, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them.”
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the Risch Center, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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Trump also went on the attack Thursday, making a demand CBS suedare demanding $10 billion in damages to the network 60 minutes interview with Harris, alleging that the interview and associated programs were “partisan and illegal acts of election and voter interference” intended to “mislead the public and attempt to tip the scales” of the presidential election in her favor.
“To cover up Kamala’s weak ‘word power’, CBS used its national platform on… 60 minutes “To cross the line from exercising judgment in reporting the news to deceitful and deceitful manipulation of the news.” Submission continued.
A CBS spokesperson told CNN that Trump’s allegations against the show are… False and “baseless” First Amendment lawyers have criticized the lawsuit as “Serious and trivial“.
“The First Amendment leaves it up to journalists — not the courts, the government, or candidates for office — to decide how to report the news,” First Amendment lawyer Charles Tobin told CNN.
The Trump campaign also announced on Friday that it had filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against The Washington Post for Harris’ “unlawful in-kind contributions for president.”
“According to reports, the newspaper is using its advertising powers to Promoting pro-Kamala and anti-Trump coverage For voters in the final days of the elections. While they refused to support it openly, they supported it in the dark; So much for “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” a campaign press release said, but offered no further details.
— With files from Reuters and The Associated Press
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