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Cheney should have guns pointed at her: Trump

Republican Liz Cheney has revealed that she is voting for Kamala Harris in November.

Republican Liz Cheney has revealed that she is voting for Kamala Harris in November. Photo: Getty

Former president Donald Trump has again attacked former congresswoman Liz Cheney, calling the Republican former Wyoming representative a “war hawk” and suggesting she might not be as willing to send troops to fight if she had guns pointed at her.

During an event in Glendale, Arizona, with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the Republican presidential candidate was asked if it is weird to see Cheney campaign against him. 

Cheney has vocally opposed Trump since the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and has become a surrogate for his Democratic opponent, Vice-President Kamala Harris.

Trump called Cheney “a deranged person”, then said: “But the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. If it were up to her we’d be in 50 different countries.”

After calling Cheney “a very dumb individual”, he said: “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with the rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. 

“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’.”

After Harris’s campaign and other Trump critics on social media pounced on the quote, Trump’s campaign responded that he “was talking about how Liz Cheney wants to send America’s sons and daughters to fight in wars despite never being in a war herself”. 

–AAP

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