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Former President Donald Trump is escalating his violent rhetoric, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, the former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be fired upon,
CNN anchor Kasie Hunt told viewers
Donald Trump did not call for the execution of Liz Cheney. That is a bald-faced lie,
The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur wrote
He’s an utterly horrible human being who’s utterly unfit for office, but the truth should always matter. And the truth is that Trump is not calling for Liz Cheney to be executed,
Walsh addedFolks, Trump didn't threaten to execute Liz Cheney,
Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp saidThis is a classic case of Trump saying something outrageous and the press bailing him out by being purposely misleading. You didn't have to lie about it for the comment to be totally irresponsible. And when you do, you lose all credibility and no one believes anything you say,
Uygur continuedI don’t support Donald Trump but I also don’t support journalists lying to their audiences, and when he says (paraphrased) 'these pro-war people wouldn’t be talking such a big game if they were on the front lines' it is actually not the same thing as saying they should be shot,
The Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield said
The Trump ‘bloodbath’ comment and his latest on Liz Cheney have both been exaggerated and taken out of context all while the press imagines apostrophes to excuse Joe Biden. This is why trust in the press is collapsing and why Trump is on the verge of winning,
conservative radio host Erick Erickson pointed out
The corporate media has completely given up on even pretending to maintain a tiny pretense of non-partisan neutrality,
journalist Glenn Greenwald wroteWhen he says nine barrels shooting at her, that obviously evokes images of a firing squad. It evokes images of an execution, does it not?"
Hunt's CNN colleague Jim Acosta grilled Rep Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., over Trump's comments, sayingThis is how dictators destroy free nations,
said the former member of Congress, who is the daughter of ex-Vice President Dick Cheney
It's clear that Trump is closing his presidential campaign calling his fellow Americans an enemy from within,
a campaign official said, continuing a theme Harris herself has sought to hammer home as of late
The early voting data we do believe puts us in a strong position, particularly with late-breaking undecideds,
the official added
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."
Cheney reposted a clip on X of Trump's remarks about her that didn't include the part about him accusing Cheney and others all being war hawks, writingHe has increased his violent rhetoric, Donald Trump has, about political opponents and in great detail, in great detail suggested rifles should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney,
Harris told reporters after landing near Madison, Wisconsin
I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under Arizona’s laws,
Mayes, a Democrat, said during a taping of “Sunday Square Off” on 12NEWS in Phoenix_(cropped).jpg)
I’m not prepared now to say whether it was or it wasn’t, but it is not helpful as we prepare for our election and as we try to make sure that we keep the peace at our polling places and in our state,
Mayes told the NBC affiliateHis rhetoric has grown more extreme, and he is even less focused than before on the needs and the concerns and the challenges facing the
Harris added
It is so unpresidential, reckless and dangerous, and needs to be universally condemned,
Griffin added
It's dangerous and escalatory,
Griffin said, notingThis is the continuation of the latest fake media outrage days before the election in a blatant attempt to interfere on behalf of Kamala Harris,
Leavitt's statement said, but it did not seem that some others shared that opinion