Former President Trump is spurring backlash along with his feedback about former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) through which he described her having weapons “trained on her face” whereas criticizing her overseas coverage.
Ian Sams, senior adviser for the Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign, slammed Trump for “dangerous, violent rhetoric.”
“You’ve Donald Trump, who’s speaking about sending a outstanding Republican to the firing squad. And you’ve got Vice President Harris speaking about sending one to her Cupboard,” Sams stated Friday morning on MSNBC.
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday, host Joe Scarborough stated Trump was “calling for Cheney being shot in the face by nine guns — nine rifles — the closing weekend of the campaign.”
“Not only what it says about the Republican Party in 2024, but also what it must look like in London, in Paris, in Madrid, in Warsaw, across the world,” Scarborough stated.
Trump made the feedback about Cheney throughout a hearth chat with former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson in Arizona on Thursday night, whereas criticizing Cheney’s father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for endorsing Harris.
“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,” Trump stated. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK. Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, we’ll, let’s send — let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
Cheney has emerged as one in every of Trump’s most vocal Republican opponents for the reason that Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, and has jumped into the race this cycle on behalf of Harris and a handful of downballot Democrats.
She responded to Trump’s remarks, posting on the social platform X that it was akin to a dying risk.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death,” Cheney stated.
Trump Marketing campaign Nationwide Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the backlash by saying that stated that Trump’s phrases had been being taken out of context.
“President Trump is 100% appropriate that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very fast to begin wars and ship different Individuals to combat them, reasonably than go into fight themselves. That is the continuation of the most recent faux media outrage days earlier than the election in a blatant try to intrude on behalf of Kamala Harris,” Leavitt stated.
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.), who’s working for Congress towards Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), took a swipe at his opponent for supporting Trump in mild of the feedback.
“As Donald Trump calls for the murder of Liz Cheney, it is despicable and disqualifying that Mike Lawler continues to support him,” Jones posted on X.
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