Trump attacks Liz Cheney as a ‘war hawk’, saying: ‘Look how she feels ‘with a gun pointed at her face’

Washington – Former President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most outspoken critics, calling her a “war hawk” and suggesting putting her in the line of fire.

During a live interview with conservative figure Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, Trump insulted Cheney’s intelligence and suggested she would have different views if a gun were pointed at her.

Cheney, Trump said, “is a very dumb person, very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s pretend she’s standing there with a rifle and shooting it with nine guns. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, well, you you know, with guns pointed at her face.”

The Republican presidential candidate added: “They’re all war hawks when they sit in Washington in a nice building and say, ‘Gee, let’s send 10,000 troops straight into the jaws of the enemy.’ But she’s a stupid person, and I had… I had a lot of encounters with people, and she always wanted to fight with people.”

Cheney replied 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 oppose them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she wrote, adding hashtags. stating that “women cannot be silenced” and “vote for Kamala.”

Cheney approved Vice President Kamala Harris is elected president and has appeared in the election campaign with the Democratic nominee as they work to persuade Republican voters who are unhappy with Trump to support the vice president.

Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams condemned Trump’s remarks and said the former president treats those who oppose him as enemies.

“For the last month he has been talking about the ‘enemy from within’ the United States. And now he’s going after Liz Cheney with this dangerous, violent rhetoric,” Sams said Friday in an interview with MSNBC. “I mean, think about the contrast between these two candidates. You have Donald Trump talking about sending a prominent Republican to be executed by firing squad, and you have Vice President Harris talking about sending one of them into his office. That’s the difference. race.”

Cheney wasn’t the only Republican official to draw Trump’s ire during his meeting with Carlson. The former president called John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser, a “real fool” and “crazy.” Trump also criticized former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., as a “complete lunatic” and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., as a “watermelon head.”

The former president also reiterated his claim that there is an “enemy from within” who “wants to destroy our country.”

Olivia Rinaldi And

Libby Katie

contributed to this report.