Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) denounced former President Trump for his latest feedback branding her a “war hawk” and utilizing language akin to a dying risk, equating the rhetoric to that of a dictator.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” Cheney, who has been a vocal critic of the previous president, stated Friday in a submit on social platform X. “They threaten those that communicate in opposition to them with dying.”
“We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she added.
Her response comes a day after Trump criticized her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for endorsing Vice President Harris throughout a hearth chat with former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson in Arizona.
“And I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb,” Trump stated Thursday.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” he continued, echoing comments he’s made before. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine-barrel shooting at her, okay. Let’s see how she feels about it. you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Cheney, the previous No. 3 Home Republican, stated in early September that she can be voting for Harris. Since then, she has appeared on the marketing campaign path with the vice chairman, seeking to end up some conservatives who really feel disaffected with the GOP and Trump.
The previous president has additionally been crucial of Cheney, who sat on the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, and voted to question him. Trump endorsed her opponent within the 2022 Home main, Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.), who ended up profitable by a large margin.
The previous president additionally attacked Cheney final week throughout a marketing campaign cease in Michigan, the place he invoked her father’s assist for the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq — probably an effort to stave off Arab American and Muslim voters away from Harris within the Nice Lakes State.
“Kamala is campaigning with Muslim-hating warmonger, Liz Cheney, who needs to invade virtually each Muslim nation on the planet,” Trump said at the time in Novi, Mich. “And let me let you know the Muslims of our nation, they see it, and so they comprehend it.”
“Her father was responsible for invading the Middle East, killing millions of Arabs — millions — and this is the one that Kamala is campaigning with,” he added.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s marketing campaign for remark.
