Liz Cheney Says Trump's Gun-Filled Threat Is 'How Dictators Destroy Free Nations'
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"We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” the former lawmaker said on social media.
Former Wyoming GOP Rep. Liz Cheney is condemning comments Donald Trump made about imagining her getting shot at.
During an appearance with Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, Thursday night, Trump called Cheney a “radical war hawk,” and suggested putting her in a soldier’s place, “with a rifle, standing there, with nine barrels shooting at her.”
He added: “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”
Cheney responded to Trump’s attack on Friday by noting its authoritarian bent.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” she said on X, formerly Twitter. “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.”
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