Liz Cheney calls Trump ‘mean, vindictive, cruel, unstable’ after he suggests he faces a firing squad

Former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney appointed Donald Trump a “petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man” after the former president said he should have “guns pointed at his face”.

The Republican presidential candidate, in a interview with former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson on Thursday, he described Cheney, who endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president, as a war hawk.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s set her up with a shotgun, nine barrels shooting at her, shall we?” Trump said in the Arizona interview. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, with guns pointed in her face.”

“You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh come on, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,'” he continued.

Cheney, who co-chaired the House committee investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, likened the former president to a dictator Friday morning.

“They threaten to kill those who speak out against them,” the Wyoming Republican said X.

“We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel and unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she said, adding #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala.

The Harris campaign posted a video of Trump’s meeting with Carlson on X, without comment.

On the campaign trail, Harris spoke out against comments by Trump, who calls those who oppose him the “enemy within”.

“Donald Trump has repeatedly called his fellow Americans the ‘enemy within’ and even said he would use the United States military to go after American citizens,” she said.

“And let’s be clear about who he considers the enemy within. Anyone who refuses to bend a knee or dare to criticize him would qualify, in his mind, as the enemy within, like judges, like journalists, like nonpartisan election officials. ” said the vice president.