She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.
Though Bill Maher will vote (or already has) for Harris-Walz on Election Day and weeks ago guaranteed a Harris victory, he criticized individuals who charged that Trump had thereby urged Cheney face a firing squad, On the Overtime segment of Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, the host began (at 3:06) a brief discussion of Trump's comment and at 5:02 remarked
But just don't lie to me. I don't like Donald Trump. Don't lie to me and tell me he wants her in front of a firing squad. He was saying something that by the way, if it came out of the mouth, some of it- not the stupid part- again, sounds like what hippies used to say about not sending people to....
Guest Michael Moynihan, pointing out that the ex-President had specified that Cheney would possess a rifle, agreed that Trump wasn't referring to a firing squad. That may be the case, though the reference to "nine barrels shooting at her" renders Trump's comment ambiguous. In any case, this is not Trump's first rodeo. Four months ago, CNN reported
Former President Donald Trump amplified posts on social media calling for a televised military tribunal for former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and the jailing of top elected officials, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“ELIZABETH LYNNE CHENEY IS GUILTY OF TREASON,” one post created by another user that Trump amplified on his social media website Truth Social on Sunday reads. “RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS.”
Cheney responded on X, “Donald - This is the type of thing that demonstrates yet again that you are not a stable adult—and are not fit for office.”
A separate post Trump amplified on Truth Social Sunday includes photos of 15 former and current elected officials and says, “THEY SHOULD BE GOING TO JAIL ON MONDAY NOT STEVE BANNON!”
In addition to Biden and Harris, the post includes photos of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former Vice President Mike Pence and members of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
wouldn’t it be terrible to throw the president’s wife and the former secretary of state– you think of it, the former secretary of state, but the president, the president’s wife into jail. Wouldn’t that be a terrible thing? But they want to do it. So, you know, it’s like it’s, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us to. And it’s very possible that it’s gonna have to happen to them.
Not only prosecution, though. In September of 2023
Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley’s phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”
Liz Cheney and Mark Milley, although specified by name, are not alone in so annoying Donald Trump that the ex-President would threaten execution. Helen Lewis of The Atlantic notes that just yesterday, on Sunday November 3, 2024, when at a rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania
Describing how his open-air podium was mostly surrounded by bulletproof glass, the former president noted a gap in that protection, and added: “To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.” And by “fake news,” he meant the members of the press covering his rally.
Lewis wrote "once again fantasizing about violence against his perceived enemies...." Fantasizing? Were it only so, Liz Cheney may be thinking.
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