WASHINGTON —
Former U.S. lawmaker Liz Cheney said Friday that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s violent comment suggesting the former parliamentarian should face a firing squad for her foreign policy stance showed she was not being held accountable. he could trust the White House and that, if he came to power, he would attack his enemies.
Former President Trump, who faces Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election, on Thursday called Cheney a “very foolish individual” and a “warmonger,” and noted that she and her father, former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, They refused to endorse his third presidential bid.
“She’s a radical warmonger. Let’s put her with a rifle in front of nine rifles shooting at her, okay? Let’s see what she thinks. Let them point them at her face,” Trump told his supporters at a campaign event. with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Arizona.
Trump has repeatedly promised to investigate or prosecute his political rivals, including Cheney, as well as election workers, journalists and left-wing citizens, among others, and said the military could be used against what he calls “radical left-wing lunatics.” “if riots occur on election day.
Cheney, one of the highest-profile Republican voices to turn against Trump, endorsed Harris for the Nov. 5 race, saying she crossed party lines to put country above politics and calling Trump a “danger”.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten with death those who speak against them. We cannot trust our country and our freedom to a mean, vengeful, cruel and unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” Cheney responded in a post by X on Friday, adding “#Womenwillnotbesilenced.”
Representatives for Trump’s campaign team could not immediately be reached for comment.
Cheney, who became one of the party’s top leaders in the US House of Representatives, lost her seat in Congress after supporting Trump’s second impeachment for his role in the storming of the US Capitol by his followers on January 6, 2021 and later help lead the investigation into the attack.
He has since campaigned with Harris, who must win over Republicans and independents — especially in seven key states — to win.
Democrats largely vilified Dick Cheney for his staunch defense of the Iraq War under former Republican President George W. Bush, but warmly embraced him at a congressional commemoration a year after the Jan. 6 assault. Bush does not plan to support the candidacy.
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