{"id":2370515,"date":"2024-11-18T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-az-attorney-general-drops-investigation-into-trumps-comments-about-cheney-and-guns\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T00:12:26","slug":"dem-az-attorney-general-drops-investigation-into-trumps-comments-about-cheney-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-az-attorney-general-drops-investigation-into-trumps-comments-about-cheney-and-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem AZ Attorney General Drops Investigation Into Trump&#8217;s Comments About Cheney and Guns"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fdem-az-attorney-general-drops-investigation-into-trumps-comments-about-cheney-and-guns%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=2370515&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>Arizona Attorney General\u200d Kris Mayes announced \u200bthe conclusion of \u2064her office&#8217;s investigation into <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> by President-elect Donald Trump regarding Rep. Liz Cheney. During a forum hosted by Tucker Carlson, Trump labeled Cheney a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-war-hawk-comments-about-cheney-set-off-firestorm-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Trump\u2019s \u2018war hawk\u2019 comments about Cheney set off firestorm - Washington Examiner\">radical war hawk<\/a>&#8221; and made comments implying she should face direct\u200b threats related to war, which he suggested represented her views \u2063on military engagements. Although Mayes \u2062initially considered the comments potentially threatening, her investigation ultimately determined that\u2064 they did not meet\u200c the legal threshold for a criminal \u200bthreat, stating that \u2063while\u2063 Trump&#8217;s comments were &#8220;disgusting&#8221; and &#8220;way over\u200b the top,&#8221;\u200c there\u200d was no \u200dreasonable likelihood of a conviction based on\u2062 Supreme Court \u200cprecedent. Mayes noted that interpretations\u200d of Trump&#8217;s comments could vary, as they might also \u2062be seen as a discussion about war rather than direct threats. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue &quot;Substantial Allegations&quot; of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a> expressed<\/a>\u2062 her commitment to\u2062 continue pursuing other cases involving\u200c GOP\u2062 officials in \u2063connection to the 2020 election, asserting that those\u2064 cases\u2062 were \u200dserious matters unaffected by Trump&#8217;s political status.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced last week that her office was ending its investigation into whether comments President-elect Donald Trump made last month regarding Rep. Liz Cheney and guns constituted a threat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s a radical war hawk,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1852216153990443365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> about Cheney to an audience of thousands attending a forum hosted by conservative commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-shames-new-york-times-reporter-perfect-response-baiting-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?&rdquo; the Republican added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on 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, let&rsquo;s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump recounted that during meetings with her when he was previously president, &ldquo;She always wanted to go to war with people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Watch the full clip of President Trump saying Liz Cheney wants to send people to die in wars that she will never experience herself.<\/p>\n<p>Then look at the headlines the media is writing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why trust in media is at an all time low. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B8jLfHE2N4\">pic.twitter.com\/B8jLfHE2N4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1852349664877560128?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/arizonas-democratic-attorney-general-announces-election-charges-two-republican-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayes<\/a>, a Democrat who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VNjCXIZB2XE&amp;ab_channel=12News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaigned with<\/a> Kamala Harris, announced the next day her office was investigating Trump describing his comments as &ldquo;clearly threatening in nature.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Obviously, we take all potential threats seriously,&rdquo; she added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n0xY_N2v98U?si=-48PsN2-_Kc8_pnG&amp;start=25\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mayes told reporters last Tuesday that her office&rsquo;s investigation into Trump&rsquo;s comments concluded they did not reach the legal threshold of being a threat, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2024\/11\/12\/az-attorney-general-ends-probe-whether-trump-comment-liz-cheney-was-threat\/76136255007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Republic<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They were disgusting statements,&rdquo; Mayes asserted. &ldquo;They were way over the top, and they were threatening in nature. That is not what we want in our presidential candidates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, she explained that based on U.S. Supreme Court precedent, her team&rsquo;s investigation determined that there was &ldquo;no reasonable likelihood that we could obtain a conviction for Trump&rsquo;s statements.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We think it&rsquo;s equally likely a reasonable person could conclude Trump was discussing war, and Liz Cheney not wanting to go to war,&rdquo; Mayes said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes &mdash; who&rsquo;s now &ldquo;probing&rdquo; Trump&rsquo;s Liz Cheney comments &mdash; dancing at Kamala&rsquo;s rally yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Another total farce.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g4A3kQWzN7\">pic.twitter.com\/g4A3kQWzN7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_johnnymaga\/status\/1852477157588803596?\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The attorney general also told reporters that her office will continue to proceed with its cases against the GOP&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rudy-giuliani-mark-meadows-16-others-indicted-arizona-behest-democratic-attorney-general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020 alternate electors<\/a> chosen in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to stay focused on the case we brought,&rdquo; Mayes said, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/azfreenews.com\/2024\/11\/attorney-general-mayes-ends-investigation-into-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arizona Free News<\/a>. &ldquo;Those are serious charges. 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Liz Cheney and firearms were threatening. Trump referred to Cheney as a &#8220;radical war hawk&#8221; during a forum led by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, suggesting she should experience the fear of being targeted by guns. Mayes initially described Trump&#8217;s comments as &#8220;clearly threatening,&#8221; but later stated that they did not meet the legal criteria for a threat, citing Supreme Court precedents. She emphasized that while the statements were inappropriate, there was no reasonable chance of securing a conviction against Trump. Additionally, Mayes confirmed her office would continue pursuing cases against the GOP&#8217;s 2020 alternate electors in Arizona<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2370516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-v-Cheney.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4472,32116,3726,3976,3634],"class_list":["post-2370515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-arizona","tag-attorney-general","tag-cheney","tag-investigation","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-v-Cheney.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370515","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370519,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370515\/revisions\/2370519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}