Trump clarifies he meant Cheney wouldn’t have ‘guts’ to fight a war with rifle comment after Dem backlash

Former President Trump connected Friday clarified that helium meant erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t person the "guts" to combat connected the beforehand lines of warfare aft helium received a backlash from Democrats implicit comments helium made Thursday astir having guns trained connected her. 

"All I’m saying astir Liz Cheney is that she is simply a War Hawk, and a dumb 1 astatine that, but she wouldn’t person ‘the guts’ to combat herself," the Republican statesmanlike nominee wrote connected Truth Social. "It’s casual for her to talk, sitting acold from wherever the decease scenes instrumentality place, but enactment a weapon successful her hand, and fto her spell fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’ Her begetter decimated the Middle East, and different places, and got affluent by doing so. He’s caused plentifulness of DEATH, and astir apt ne'er adjacent gave it a thought. That’s not what we privation moving our Country!"

Trump caused contention erstwhile helium called Cheney a "radical warfare hawk" astatine an lawsuit successful Arizona connected Thursday, adding, "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. They're each warfare hawks erstwhile they're sitting successful Washington successful a bully gathering saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's nonstop 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a anserine idiosyncratic and I utilized to person meetings with a batch of radical and she ever wanted to spell to warfare with people." 

Trump besides told reporters astatine a run halt successful Dearborn, Michigan, connected Friday: "Even successful my administration, she was pushing that we spell to warfare with everybody, and I said if you ever gave her a firearm and fto her bash the fighting, if you ever bash that, she wouldn't beryllium doing excessively well, I volition archer you close now. But she's a warfare hawk. She wants to spell termination radical unnecessarily. 

HARRIS SAYS TRUMP'S RIFLE COMMENTS ABOUT LIZ CHENEY ARE ‘DISQUALIFYING’

Former President Trump connected Friday clarified that helium meant erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney doesn’t person the "guts" to combat connected the beforehand lines of warfare aft helium received a backlash from Democrats implicit comments helium made Thursday astir having guns trained connected her.  (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson; Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

The remarks prompted accusations from liberals of convulsive rhetoric and that Trump was suggesting Cheney should look a firing squad. 

"He has accrued his convulsive rhetoric astir governmental opponents – Donald Trump has – and successful large item suggested rifles should beryllium trained connected erstwhile Rep. Liz Cheney," Vice President Harris told reporters successful a presser Friday. "This indispensable beryllium disqualifying. Anyone who wants to beryllium President of the United States who uses that benignant of convulsive rhetoric is intelligibly disqualified and unqualified to beryllium president."

TRUMP CRITICISM OF LIZ CHENEY AS ‘RADICAL WAR HAWK’ FRAMED AS CALL FOR VIOLENCE BY ‘IRRESPONSIBLE’ MEDIA

Cheney, a Republican, endorsed Harris for president successful September and has been campaigning with the Democratic nominee. 

Trump caused contention erstwhile helium called Cheney a "radical warfare hawk" astatine an lawsuit successful Arizona connected Thursday, adding, "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. They're each warfare hawks erstwhile they're sitting successful Washington successful a bully gathering saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let's nonstop 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a anserine idiosyncratic and I utilized to person meetings with a batch of radical and she ever wanted to spell to warfare with people."  (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Cheney responded to Trump’s Thursday remarks connected X Friday, writing, "This is however dictators destruct escaped nations. They endanger those who talk against them with death. We cannot entrust our state and our state to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable antheral who wants to beryllium a tyrant." 

She added the hashtags "#Womenwillnotbesilenced" and "#VoteKamala."

Cheney endorsed Harris for president successful September and has been campaigning with the Democratic nominee.  (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

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Republicans person besides accused Democrats of expanding the anticipation of unit against Trump with rhetoric accusing him of being "fascist" and a "threat to democracy."

The erstwhile president was changeable by a would-be assassin successful July and was targeted by different fishy adjacent his location successful Florida.