Even liberals, Trump critics blast media's coverage of Liz Cheney comments: 'A bald-faced lie'

The backlash the bequest media is facing implicit its sum of former President Trump's caller comments astir erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is going acold beyond his supporters. 

At an lawsuit successful Glendale, Arizona, Trump took a swipe astatine Cheney, who has been campaigning successful enactment of Vice President Kamala Harris, for being a "radical warfare hawk."

"I don’t blasted [former Vice President Dick Cheney] for sticking with his daughter, but his girl is simply a precise dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a extremist warfare hawk. Let's enactment her with a firearm lasting determination with 9 barrels shooting astatine her, OK? Let's spot however she feels astir it. You know, erstwhile the guns are trained connected her face," Trump said. "You know, they're each warfare hawks erstwhile they're sitting successful Washington successful the bully buildings saying ‘Oh gee well, let’s nonstop 10,000 troops close into the rima of the enemy."

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The media has grossly taken erstwhile President Trump's remarks criticizing erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., retired of discourse to suggest helium called for her "execution." (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Several news organizations twisted Trump's comments to suggest helium was calling for Cheney's "execution." 

The New York Times ran the header "Trump attacks Liz Cheney utilizing convulsive warfare imagery." The Washington Post published "Trump suggests ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should person guns ‘trained to her face.’" CNN's header went adjacent further, speechmaking "Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should beryllium fired upon successful escalation of convulsive rhetoric against his opponents."

The Drudge Report went viral with its apical of the leafage header successful bold reddish caps, "TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY'S EXECUTION." 

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The sensational sum happened on-air arsenic well. 

"Former President Donald Trump is escalating his convulsive rhetoric, suggesting 1 of his astir salient critics, the erstwhile Congresswoman Liz Cheney, should beryllium fired upon," CNN anchor Kasie Hunt told viewers.

Hunt's CNN workfellow Jim Acosta grilled Rep Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., implicit Trump's comments, saying, "When helium says 9 barrels shooting astatine her, that evidently evokes images of a firing squad. It evokes images of an execution, does it not?"

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire called it "the latest escalation of truly dangerous, convulsive rhetoric," portion erstwhile New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told "The View" co-hosts it "absolutely" was a menace to Cheney. 

Not everyone is buying the narrative, however. And not conscionable Trump's defenders. 

Cheney has been an outspoken surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris connected the run trail. ( Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Critics of the erstwhile president crossed the governmental spectrum are calling retired the media's coverage. 

"Trump did NOT telephone for Liz Cheney to beryllium executed," erstwhile GOP congressman and anti-Trump professional Joe Walsh reacted connected X. "Look, you cognize however I consciousness astir Trump, and I’ve been retired determination each time for 2-3 months campaigning my ass disconnected to assistance get @KamalaHarris elected, but this abbreviated clip is truthful deceptive. Trump is NOT calling for Liz Cheney to beryllium executed successful beforehand of a firing line. He’s not. Listen to the entirety of what helium said."

"He’s an utterly horrible quality being who’s utterly unfit for office, but the information should ever matter. And the information is that Trump is not calling for Liz Cheney to beryllium executed," Walsh added. 

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"Donald Trump did not telephone for the execution of Liz Cheney. That is simply a bald-faced lie," The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur wrote. "He was making a constituent astir however she is simply a chickenhawk. But also, Trump shouldn't speech astir guns being ‘trained connected her face,’ particularly successful a clip wherever we're disquieted astir governmental violence."

"This is simply a classical lawsuit of Trump saying thing outrageous and the property bailing him retired by being purposely misleading. You didn't person to prevarication astir it for the remark to beryllium wholly irresponsible. And erstwhile you do, you suffer each credibility and nary 1 believes thing you say," Uygur continued. 

Trump slammed Cheney for being a "radical warfare hawk," suggesting she wouldn't hesitate to nonstop 10,000 troops portion sitting information successful Washington D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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"I don’t enactment Donald Trump but I besides don’t enactment journalists lying to their audiences, and erstwhile helium says (paraphrased) 'these pro-war radical wouldn’t beryllium talking specified a large crippled if they were connected the beforehand lines' it is really not the aforesaid happening arsenic saying they should beryllium shot," The Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield said.

"Folks, Trump didn't endanger to execute Liz Cheney," Vox analogous Zack Beauchamp said. "He really was calling her a chickenhawk, thing liberals said astir her for ages. Look astatine the discourse — Trump is talking astir giving her a weapon. Typically, radical enactment successful beforehand of firing squads aren't armed.

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Political idiosyncratic Ian Bremmer blasted the Drudge Report's headline, saying, "this is bonzer irresponsibility, made worse lone by the information that it’s progressively communal crossed the governmental spectrum successful the United States.

"The Trump ‘bloodbath’ remark and his latest connected Liz Cheney person some been exaggerated and taken retired of discourse each portion the property imagines apostrophes to excuse Joe Biden. This is wherefore spot successful the property is collapsing and wherefore Trump is connected the verge of winning," blimpish vigor big Erick Erickson pointed out.

"The firm media has wholly fixed up connected adjacent pretending to support a tiny pretense of non-partisan neutrality," writer Glenn Greenwald wrote. "Compare this WashPost ‘news article’ astir what Trump said to what helium really said. This is why, arsenic Bezos told them, cipher trusts them: deservedly so."

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