Trump attacked ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney with violent rhetoric

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at a campaign event in Arizona on Thursday. Donald Trump He continued his pattern of using violent rhetoric to attack political rivals, criticizing former Rep. Liz Cheney’s hawkish foreign policy stance and suggesting she might not be a “war hawk” if “guns were pointed in her face.”

“He’s a radical war hawk,” Trump told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on stage, and called Cheney “a very stupid individual.”

“Let’s put him in there with a nine-barreled rifle, okay? Let’s see how he feels about this. You know, when the guns are pointed in his face,” Republican presidential candidate in question. “You know, they’re all war hawks who sit in a nice building in Washington and say, ‘Wow, let’s send – let’s send 10,000 soldiers into the mouth of the enemy.'”

Trump used increasingly rude And violent rhetoric To attack rivals in recent weeks surveys show him and Kamala Harris in a dead heat in this election. At Thursday’s event, he also called President Joe Biden a “stupid bastard” and referred to Harris as a “dirty man.”

Trump promises to use executive authority powers Punish and prosecute political rivals if he is elected to a second term — a scenario former federal law enforcement officials and legal experts would agree with he told NBC News It will lead to chaos and division.

He also singled out Cheney, who has become one of his main targets as a vocal critic of efforts to steal the 2020 election. In June, Trump shared a post Image from Truth Social He called for a televised military trial for Cheney.

HE Lately campaigned with HarrisHe urges anti-Trump Republicans to vote Democrat. His father, former Vice President Dick Cheney — Architect of the Iraq War In the early 2000s – he also crossed party lines to support Harris in this election.

The younger Cheney responded to Trump’s remarks early Friday by saying they amounted to death threats.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” he wrote in a post on X. “They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a narrow-minded, vindictive, cruel and unstable man who wants to be oppressive.”