{"id":2362755,"date":"2024-11-01T12:16:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-war-hawk-comments-about-cheney-set-off-firestorm-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T12:17:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:17:59","slug":"trumps-war-hawk-comments-about-cheney-set-off-firestorm-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-war-hawk-comments-about-cheney-set-off-firestorm-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018war hawk\u2019 comments about Cheney set off firestorm &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-war-hawk-comments-about-cheney-set-off-firestorm-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2362755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump sparked controversy with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-canvassers-rescind-their-votes-to-certify-wayne-county-michigan-results\/\" title=\"Republican Canvassers Rescind Their Votes to Certify Wayne County, Michigan, Results\">comments made<\/a>\u200b during Tucker Carlson&#8217;s Live\u2062 Tour in \u2064Glendale, Arizona,\u2064 where he \u200ccriticized former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney.\u200d Trump labeled Cheney\u200b a\u2062 &#8220;radical war hawk&#8221; and suggested that she should experience the dangers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-my-familys-bloody-history-in-the-spanish-civil-war-teaches-about-the-fbis-assault-on-catholics\/\" title=\"Lessons from my family&#039;s history in the Spanish Civil War and the FBI&#039;s attack on Catholics.\">war firsthand<\/a>, saying, &#8220;Let\u2019s\u2062 put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels \u200cshooting at her.&#8221; He reiterated his disdain for Cheney, claiming she is a &#8220;stupid\u2062 person&#8221; who advocates for military action without understanding the\u200c risks involved.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney interpreted Trump&#8217;s remarks as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-arrested-for-death-threats-against-president-trump-and-his-son-barron\/\" title=\"Woman arrested for threatening President Trump and his son Barron.\">death\u2064 threat<\/a>, arguing that such rhetoric\u200d is indicative of authoritarian behavior that threatens democratic freedoms. \u2063She \u2064condemned \u200bTrump \u200con social \u200dmedia, linking his words \u2063to \u2062the actions of dictators. The backlash against Trump intensified as advisors to Vice President Harris implied that Trump was\u200b inciting\u2063 violence against \u2062Cheney, suggesting his comments could\u200c be interpreted\u200b as calling for her execution.<\/p>\n<p>Despite \u2064the uproar, \u200csome defended Trump, claiming\u200b that his comments were misrepresented and merely labeled Cheney a &#8220;chicken hawk,&#8221; a term used to describe those who advocate for war without having\u2064 served. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">situation prompted widespread \u200ddebate<\/a> about the \u200bimplications \u200bof Trump&#8217;s language and its potential \u200dconsequences in the polarized political landscape.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump&rsquo;s &lsquo;war hawk&rsquo; comments about Cheney set off firestorm<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1870531\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Wyoming&nbsp;Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Liz Cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Liz Cheney\">Donald Trump<\/a> are in a proverbial war over his suggestion she should be forced to go into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">war<\/a> zone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking as the special guest at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tucker-carlson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>&nbsp;Live Tour in Glendale,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arizona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona<\/a>, Trump derided Cheney as a &ldquo;very dumb individual&rdquo; and then suggested she should be sent to war.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former President Donald Trump and former Rep. Liz Cheney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a radical war hawk. Let&rsquo;s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK? let&rsquo;s see how she feels about it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You know, when the guns are trained in her face. You know, they&rsquo;re all war hawks when they&rsquo;re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, &lsquo;Oh, gee &hellip; let&rsquo;s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But she&rsquo;s a stupid person,&rdquo; Trump continued. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cheney interpreted the remarks as a death threat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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,&rdquo; Cheney said in a post on X, along with the hashtags #Womenwillnotbesilenced and #VoteKamala.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign was quick to portray the event likewise, with Harris senior adviser Ian Sams and other surrogates suggesting Trump was calling for Cheney to face a firing squad.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trump is talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad. Vice President Harris is talking about sending one to her Cabinet,&rdquo; he said on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump War Room X account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TrumpWarRoom\/status\/1852338679513031017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"called\">called<\/a> Sams a &ldquo;disgusting liar.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Trump Drudge Report ran the headline, &ldquo;TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY&rsquo;S EXECUTION.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Others defended Trump, saying Harris&rsquo;s surrogates were misrepresenting his comments.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zackbeauchamp\/status\/1852353282749915412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reposted<\/a> a message on X by an Axios journalist criticizing the framing of Trump&rsquo;s comments as a threat to Cheney&rsquo;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Folks, Trump didn&rsquo;t threaten to execute Liz Cheney,&rdquo; Zack Beauchamp wrote. &ldquo;He actually was calling her a chicken hawk, something liberals said about her for ages.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Beauchamp followed up the post with other criticisms of the former president, saying, &ldquo;Trump does so many offensive things and makes so many anti-democratic promises, that it&rsquo;s actually counterproductive to get outraged about fake ones.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is simply a lie to claim that Trump was calling for Cheney&rsquo;s assassination here. A lie,&rdquo; conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is simply a lie to claim that Trump was calling for Cheney&#8217;s assassination here. A lie. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OgRLNp5gIE\">https:\/\/t.co\/OgRLNp5gIE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1852338295138628006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I watched the clip. Trump obviously did not call for Cheney&rsquo;s execution. He was calling her a chicken hawk. This is a bizarre, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-ted-cruz-exposes-the-lefts-newest-strategy-for-censoring-conservatives\/\" title=\"Exclusive: Ted Cruz Uncovers Left&#039;s Latest Tactic to Silence Conservatives\">deranged lie<\/a>,&rdquo; journalist Brad Polumbo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brad_polumbo\/status\/1852317948825805008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"wrote\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney has emerged as one of Trump&rsquo;s most vocal critics, going so far as to campaign alongside Harris. Harris has touted her support as evidence of bipartisanship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1870531\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1870531\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s remarks about Cheney ignite controversy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2362756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Cheney-1024x591.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3726,6733,5894,3634,44164],"class_list":["post-2362755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cheney","tag-controversy","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-war-hawk"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Cheney-1024x591.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}