Trump says Liz Cheney might not be such a ‘war hawk’ if she had rifles shooting at her

Donald Trump has focused attacks on former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, since she began vocally opposing him over his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Donald Trump is suggesting that former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, should have rifles “shooting at her” to see how she feels about sending troops to fight. “You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh gee, well, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,’” Trump said. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.” Harris on Friday called Trump’s comments about Cheney “disqualifying.” Speaking to reporters after arriving in Madison, Wis., Harris asked voters to consider who they’d prefer sitting in the Oval Office, driving the message she’s been emphasizing in the campaign’s closing week. He doubled down Friday, calling Cheney a “disaster” during a stop at a restaurant in Dearborn, Mich. “She wouldn’t fight, she is a coward,” he said, adding that if she were ever put on a battlefield, “she’d be the first one to chicken out.” Another prominent Trump critic, former Republican congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois, argued than the former president was “NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line.” “In Trump’s typically stupid, ugly fashion, he’s trying to make a point about Cheney’s stance on war,” Walsh said on X.