Trump Fantasizes About Putting Liz Cheney in Front of Firing Squad

Donald Trump fantasized about having former Rep. Liz Cheney shot during a campaign event in Arizona.

“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK?” Trump told Tucker Carlson on Thursday night. “Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

“They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right in the mouth of the enemy,’” he said of his critics. 

Cheney — who has campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harras as one of the most vocal Republican detractors of the former president — responded to the comments on Friday morning.

“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” she wrote 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.” 

In the final weeks of the campaign, Trump has delivered increasingly fascist rhetoric while leveling threats against his political opponents. Earlier this month, he suggested that “radical left lunatics … the enemy from within … should be very easily handled, if necessary, by the National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military.”

Cheney is not the only Republican publicly warning that Trump will govern as an authoritarian. Former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly stated recently that the former president fits the definition of a fascist, and as president repeatedly expressed a desire to have generals as loyal to him as Hitler’s. 

As previously reported by Rolling Stone, ahead of his 2024 campaign Trump repeatedly asked his close advisers how they felt about bringing back firing squads as a method of execution. 

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The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals,” one source told Rolling Stone. “He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office, but for whatever reasons didn’t have the chance.” 

With his latest attack against Cheney, it seems that alongside fantasizing about lording over a cadre of blindly loyal military leaders, Trump is also mulling over exactly how he would put them to use.