Liz Cheney fires back at Trump’s death threat

Liz Cheney fired back at the former president Donald Trump’s comments on Thursday night, where he darkly outlined a scenario in which guns fired at the former Republican congressional leader Kamala Harris supporter.

These are comments made during an event organized by Tucker Carlson in which Trump portrayed Cheney as “stupid” and a “warhawk,” but then insulted her by suggesting she would behave differently if guns were “shooting at her.” Referring to Cheney as “a very stupid individual,” he then said:

She is a radical war hawk. Let’s put her there with a gun while nine barrels shoot at her. Okay. Let’s see what she thinks about it. You know, when the guns are pointed at her face.

Suggesting a scenario in which a political enemy is shot at is a dangerous level of heated rhetoric. It has created an early firestorm just days before the presidential election. Cheney did not take the comments lightly and posted her answer on social media.

Cheney wrote“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak out against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vengeful, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.

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