Former President Trump clarified Friday that he meant former Rep. Liz Cheney didn’t have the “courage” to fight on the front lines of the war after he received backlash from Democrats over comments he made Thursday about training weapons on her.
“All I’m saying about Liz Cheney is that she’s a war hawk, and a stupid one at that, but she doesn’t have the ‘courage’ to fight herself,” the Republican presidential candidate wrote on Truth Social. “It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far away from where the death scenes are happening, but put a gun in her hand, let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No, thanks!'” Her father destroyed the Middle East and elsewhere, got rich doing it, caused so much death, and probably never thought about it.
Trump sparked controversy when he called Cheney an “extreme war hawk” during an event in Arizona on Thursday, adding, “Let’s put her with a rifle and nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are pointed at her face, They’re all war hawks when they sit in Washington in a beautiful building and say, “Oh, well, let’s send 10,000 troops into the enemy’s mouths,” but she’s a stupid person, and I used to have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people “.
Trump also told reporters at a campaign event in Dearborn, Michigan, on Friday: “Even in my administration, she was pushing to go to war with everybody, and I said if you give her a gun and let her fight, if she does that, she’s not going to be in good shape. I’ll tell you now, but War hawks want to kill people unnecessarily.
These statements sparked accusations from liberals of using violent rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting that Cheney face a firing squad. “
“He has increased his violent rhetoric about political opponents — as has Donald Trump — and suggested in great detail that guns should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney,” Vice President Harris told reporters at a news conference on Friday. “This should be disqualifying. It’s clear that anyone who wants to be president of the United States and uses this kind of violent rhetoric is disqualified and unqualified to be president.”
Cheney, a Republican, supported Harris’ presidential candidacy last September and campaigned with the Democratic candidate.
Fox News Digital’s Bree Stimson contributed to this report.
