Trump and Harris Clash Over Liz Cheney Comments from Former President
A spokeswoman for Trump stated that the former president was suggesting that individuals like Liz Cheney are quick to initiate wars and send other Americans to fight them.
The Trump and Harris presidential campaigns were engaged in a dispute on Friday morning regarding comments made by former President Donald Trump in a recent interview, where he labeled former Congresswoman Liz Cheney as a “war hawk.”
“Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it,” stated the Republican presidential nominee. “You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they are all war hawks when they are sitting in Washington in a nice building.”
In response, Cheney remarked that Trump’s criticism of her indicates that he is an authoritarian.
The former Republican House lawmaker, who represented Wyoming’s at-large district and has been campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris, posted on the social media platform X: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
The Harris campaign also capitalized on Trump’s comment by alleging that the former president intended to send Cheney “to the firing squad.”
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Cheney and Trump have long been publicly at odds with one another. Their dispute intensified when Cheney was seated on a congressional committee that investigated the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, disclosed earlier this year that she would vote for Harris. The vice president has since deployed her in areas to court voters in certain battleground states.
Cheney’s father released a statement in September stating that he would endorse Harris for president. Former President George W. Bush has not publicly endorsed either candidate.
“As citizens, we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Dick Cheney said in a statement at the time. “That is why I will be casting my vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
With just four days to go before the Nov. 5 election, both campaigns have recently been accusing each other of making disparaging remarks about certain groups and individuals.
During the past weekend, a roast comedian at a Trump rally in New York City made a joke calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” which the Harris campaign highlighted.
Days later, President Joe Biden remarked, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” during an Oct. 29 conference call organized by the Hispanic advocacy group Voto Latino.
The president and the White House later clarified that he was referring to the comedian’s Puerto Rico joke, not Trump’s supporters.
This week, Trump also made a comment about protecting women that was criticized by the Harris campaign.
At a rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday, Trump told his supporters that aides had suggested he stop using the term protector because it was “inappropriate,” to which he responded: “Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.”
“When I said this during the interview, I didn’t get it out exactly the way I thought I did. So I apologize to anyone who felt slighted or upset by my response. As I said, it wasn’t about Trump voters, supporters, or employees. Current or former,” expressed Cuban on X early Friday.
The Epoch Times reached out to the Trump campaign for further comment on Friday but did not receive a response by publication time.
