Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump for his comments on Liz Cheney, saying it ‘disqualified’ to be president.
Trump, at an event with Tucker Carlson, said Cheney, the former Republican congresswomen who endorsed Harris, said Cheney should be put on a battlefield ‘with nine barrels shooting at her face.’
‘This must be disqualifying,’ Harris told reporters in Wisconsin. ‘Anyone who wants to be president of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly is disqualified and unqualified to be president.’
‘This must be disqualifying,’ Kamala Harris said of Trump’s comment on Liz Cheney
She said Cheney is ‘a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country above party.’
‘Trump, however, considers his political opponents the enemy and is permanently out for revenge and increasingly unstable and unhinged. His enemies list has grown longer. His rhetoric has grown more extreme, and he is even less focused than before on the needs and the concerns and the challenges facing the American people,’ Harris added.
The Democratic nominees said she has not spoken to Cheney since Trump’s remark.
Trump has long railed against Cheney, who criticized him for his role in the January 6th insurrection and was one of two Republican lawmakers who sat on the House committee investigating it.
‘She’s a radical war hawk,’ Trump said of her at event Thursday night at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz. ‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.’
Both Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have endorsed Harris.
Trump had mentioned Liz Cheney’s father, former GOP Vice President Dick Cheney, before he unleashed the diatribe.
‘I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter. But his daughter’s a very dumb individual, very dumb,’ Trump said.
‘Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,’ Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson of Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney has endorsed and campaigned with Kamala Harris
Cheney took to social media to respond to Trump, saying ‘this is how dictators destroy free nations.’
‘They threaten those who speak against them with death,’ she wrote in the post. ‘We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.’
Back in March, Trump called for Cheney to be jailed over her role in investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Cheney should ‘go to jail along with the rest’ of the select January 6 House committee.
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