Trump on Cheney: See how she feels "when the guns are trained on her face"

Washington — Former President Donald Trump attacked erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney, 1 of his astir ardent critics, connected Thursday arsenic a "war hawk" and suggested she beryllium sent into nan statement of fire.

During a unrecorded question and reply pinch blimpish characteristic Tucker Carlson successful Glendale, Arizona, Trump insulted Cheney's intelligence and suggested she would person different views if she had guns pointed astatine her.

Cheney, Trump said, "is a very dumb individual, very dumb. She's a extremist warfare hawk. Let's put her pinch a firearm opinionated location pinch 9 barrels shooting astatine her. OK? Let's spot really she feels astir it, you cognize erstwhile nan guns are trained connected her face."

The Republican statesmanlike nominee added, "They're each warfare hawks erstwhile they're sitting successful Washington successful a bully building saying, 'Oh, gee, good let's nonstop 10,000 troops correct into nan rima of nan enemy.' But she's a stupid person, and I utilized to person —I'd person meetings pinch a batch of people, and she ever wanted to spell to warfare pinch people."

Cheney responded to Trump's attacks connected societal media Friday, penning that his comments show nan actions of a dictator.

"This is really dictators destruct free nations. They frighten those who speak against them pinch death. We cannot entrust our state and our state to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to beryllium a tyrant," she wrote, adding hashtags stating "women will not beryllium silenced" and "vote Kamala."

Cheney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president and has appeared connected nan run trail pinch nan Democratic nominee arsenic they activity to seduce Republican voters who person soured connected Trump to backmost nan vice president.

A spokesperson for Harris' campaign, Ian Sams, condemned Trump's remarks and said nan erstwhile president treats those who reason him arsenic enemies.

"He's spent nan past period talking astir nan 'enemy from within' nan United States. And now, he's going aft Liz Cheney pinch this dangerous, convulsive rhetoric," Sams said Friday successful an question and reply connected MSNBC. "I mean, deliberation astir nan opposition betwixt these 2 candidates. You person Donald Trump who is talking astir sending a salient Republican to nan firing squad, and you person Vice President Harris talking astir sending 1 to her Cabinet. This is nan quality successful this race."

Cheney was not nan only Republican charismatic who earned Trump's ire during nan arena pinch Carlson. The erstwhile president called John Bolton, who served arsenic Trump's nationalist information adviser, a "real dope" and "nut job." Trump besides lambasted erstwhile Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from Illinois, arsenic a "total whack job," and Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, arsenic a "watermelon head."

The erstwhile president besides reiterated his declare that location is an "enemy from within," who "would for illustration to return down our country."

Olivia Rinaldi and Libby Cathey contributed to this report.

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