AG is investigating whether Trump’s Liz Cheney’s comments at the Arizona rally qualify as a death threat

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes’ office is investigating whether former President Donald Trump broke the law during a rally in Glendale on Thursday.

Mayes told 12 News she asked investigators to investigate whether Trump’s comments to former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney qualify as a death threat under Arizona law.

“The Arizona Attorney General’s office is investigating whether Donald Trump’s comments about Liz Cheney violate the law. The office has no additional comment at this time,” a spokesperson for the attorney general told KJZZ.

Trump made the comments in question at a campaign event during a conversation with right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson.

“She is a radical war hawk,” Trump said, referring to Cheney. “Let’s put her there with a gun while nine barrels shoot her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about the guns being pointed at her face.”

Under Arizona lawit is a crime to threaten bodily harm against another person.

Cheney, an outspoken Trump critic, supported Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election and served on the commission investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Both Cheney and Harris criticized Trump for the comments.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” Cheney wrote on social media. “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.”

Asked about the comments, Harris called Cheney “a true patriot” and said Trump “has increased his violent rhetoric.”

‘His enemies list has grown longer. His rhetoric has become more extreme,” Harris said. “And he is even less focused than before on the needs, concerns and challenges facing the American people.”

Trump and his allies said the comments are being misinterpreted and that he was making a point about Cheney’s foreign policy record, saying she is too quick to support America’s entry into wars.

His spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, said his comments were taken out of context and called the controversy “the latest fake media outrage.”