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Former President Trump connected Friday responded to disapproval of his comments a time earlier, successful which helium attacked erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) by utilizing convulsive imagery to chastise her overseas argumentation views.
Trump sparked backlash after helium told erstwhile Fox News big Tucker Carlson that Cheney, an outspoken professional of the erstwhile president, was a "radical warfare hawk" and suggested she should beryllium enactment into a warfare portion "with 9 barrels shooting astatine her."
The erstwhile president sought to clarify those comments successful a Truth Social post.
"All I’m saying astir Liz Cheney is that she is simply a War Hawk, and a dumb 1 astatine that, but she wouldn’t person 'the guts' to combat herself," Trump posted. "It’s casual for her to talk, sitting acold from wherever the decease scenes instrumentality place, but enactment a weapon successful her hand, and fto her spell fight, and she’ll say, 'No thanks!'"
"Her begetter decimated the Middle East, and different places, and got affluent by doing so. He’s caused plentifulness of DEATH, and astir apt ne'er adjacent gave it a thought," Trump continued, referring to erstwhile Vice President Dick Cheney, who has endorsed Vice President Harris successful the 2024 election.
Trump's critics lambasted him implicit his rhetoric toward Cheney, who has campaigned alongside Harris ahead of Election Day.
“This is however dictators destruct escaped nations. They endanger those who talk against them with death,” Cheney posted connected X.
Ian Sams, senior advisor for the Vice President Harris’s campaign, slammed Trump for “dangerous, convulsive rhetoric.”
“You person Donald Trump, who’s talking astir sending a salient Republican to the firing squad. And you person Vice President Harris talking astir sending 1 to her Cabinet,” Sams said Friday greeting connected MSNBC.
