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President Trump is 100 percent correct that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves."
Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Newsweek in an email statement
It is so unpresidential, reckless and dangerous, and needs to be universally condemned,
Griffin added
This is how dictators destroy free nations."
Cheney herself responded to the comments, writing on XThis 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 opinionIt's dangerous and escalatory,
Griffin said, notingIn our nation's 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump."
Cheney and her father have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, saying in a joint statement released in SeptemberElizabeth Lynne Cheney is guilty of treason. Retruth if you want televised military tribunals."
The former president earlier this year platformed a controversial Truth Social post that appeared to threaten Liz Cheney, saying
Where is the line drawn?"
Stephanie Grisham, one of Trump's White House press secretaries during his term, askedHe tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again,
the statement saidTrump should be taken into custody. He is a convicted felon and just violated the conditions of his bail agreement by threatening someone's life. He needs to be sent away."
Scaramucci, Trump's 11-day-long press secretary, posted to X (formerly Twitter) in response to these comments sayingI watched the clip. Trump obviously did not call for Cheney's execution. He was calling her a chicken hawk. This is a bizarre, deranged lie,
journalist Brad Polumbo wrote
Folks, Trump didn't threaten to execute Liz Cheney,
Zack Beauchamp wroteTRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY'S EXECUTION."
The anti-Trump Drudge Report ran the headlineTrump does so many offensive things and makes so many anti-democratic promises, that it's actually counterproductive to get outraged about fake ones."
Beauchamp followed up the post with other criticisms of the former president, sayingYou have Donald Trump, who’s talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad. And you have Vice-President Harris talking about sending one to her cabinet,
Sams told MSNBC on Friday
In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know,
the ad says, as the woman gives another a knowing look across the voting booth partitions
This is the same man who said women should be punished for their choices,
Harris said on Thursday at an event in PhoenixI’m going to protect them from migrants coming in,
Trump saidShe’s a radical war hawk,
Trump said on Thursday at a campaign event with ex-Fox News television host Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, also calling Cheney “a deranged person” and “a very dumb individual”.
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It is simply a lie to claim that Trump was calling for Cheney's assassination here. A lie."
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro also posted footage of Trump’s comments and wrote