Washington- Former President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his staunchest critics, calling her a “war hawk” and suggested she be sent into the firing line.
During a live interview with conservative personality Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, Trump insulted Cheney’s intelligence and suggested she would have different opinions if she had guns pointed at her.
Cheney, Trump said, “is a very stupid, very stupid person. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her there with a nine-barreled shotgun shooting at her. OK? Let’s see what she thinks, you know when the guns are pointed in his face.”
The Republican presidential candidate added: “They’re all war hawks when they sit in Washington in a nice building and say, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops straight into the mouth of the ‘enemy.’ But she’s a stupid person, and I used to… I had meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.”
Cheney responded to Trump’s attacks on social media on Friday, writing that his comments demonstrated the actions of a dictator.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten death to those who speak against them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel and unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she wrote, adding hashtags. declaring that “women will not be silenced” and “vote Kamala”.
Cheney approved Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president and has appeared on the election campaign with the Democratic nominee as they work to persuade Republican voters who have soured on Trump to support the vice president.
A Harris campaign spokesman, Ian Sams, condemned Trump’s comments and said the former president treated those who oppose him like enemies.
“He’s spent the last month talking about America’s ‘enemy within.’ And now he’s going after Liz Cheney with this dangerous and violent rhetoric,” Sams said in an interview Friday. on MSNBC. “I mean, think about the contrast between these two candidates. You have Donald Trump talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad, and you have Vice President Harris talking about sending one to her cabinet. That’s the difference racing.”
Cheney wasn’t the only Republican official to draw Trump’s ire at the event with Carlson. The former president called John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser, a “true idiot” and “crazy.” Trump also blasted former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, as a “total piece of work,” and Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, as a “watermelon head.”
The former president also reiterated that there is an “enemy within” who “would like to destroy our country.”
Olivia Rinaldi and
contributed to this report.
