Former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton advised that former President Trump’s latest criticism of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) is much less about conflict and extra associated to her voting to question him after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.
“I do think, in Liz Cheney’s case, though, there’s more to this that people are not catching. And that is, his criticism of her is not based on her being a war hawk or anything else,” Bolton instructed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Friday.
“The fact is, she voted to impeach him, after January the 6th, and he cannot get it out of his head,” he added.
Cheney was simply considered one of 10 Home Republicans who voted to question the previous president in 2021 following the riot. The previous lawmaker, who misplaced her reelection bid in 2022 to a pro-Trump candidate, has emerged as considered one of his hardest critics after sitting on the Home panel investigating the Jan. 6 riots.
Bolton’s feedback come after Trump referred to as Cheney a “radical war hawk” and advised she needs to be put right into a conflict zone “with nine barrels shooting at her.” The rhetoric, made throughout a fireplace chat in Arizona with former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson, has since spurred backlash.
Cheney, who has backed Vice President Harris within the White Home race and has joined her for marketing campaign rallies, denounced Trump’s rifle feedback branding her a “war hawk” in a social media publish Friday.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” she wrote on social platform X. “They threaten those who speak against them with death.”
Trump sought to make clear his feedback later Friday.
“All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk, and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn’t have ‘the guts’ to fight herself,” he posted on Fact Social. “It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’”
“Her father decimated the Middle East, and other places, and got rich by doing so. He’s caused plenty of DEATH, and probably never even gave it a thought,” the previous president continued, referring to former Vice President Dick Cheney, who additionally endorsed Harris’s presidential bid.
Harris, and her working mate Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), additionally pushed again on Trump’s assault of Cheney, arguing that it needs to be “disqualifying.”
Collins requested Bolton whether or not the GOP presidential nominee might hit somebody on their overseas coverage views “without using violent imagery,” referencing the remarks he made concerning the former congresswoman.
“And that’s why, notwithstanding, the comments were, were not about a firing squad directly, but about being in combat. It would be a pretty unusual situation, in the field, for one lone American soldier, suddenly to be confronted by nine enemy soldiers, pointing their rifles at her head,” Bolton mentioned.
The Hill has contacted the Trump marketing campaign for remark.
