Trump attacks Liz Cheney as “war hawk,” saying see how she feels “when the guns are trained on her face”

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Trump attacks Liz Cheney as “war hawk,” saying see how she feels “when the guns are trained on her face”

Washington — Former President Donald Trump attacked former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his most ardent critics, on Thursday as a “war hawk” and suggested she be sent into the line of *****.

During a live interview with ************* personality Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, Trump insulted Cheney’s intelligence and suggested she would have different views if she had guns pointed at her.

Cheney, Trump said, “is a very ***** individual, very *****. She’s a ******** war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels ********* at her. OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face.”

The *********** presidential nominee added, “They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the ******.’ But she’s a ******* person, and I used to have —I’d have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.”

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to Trump’s attacks on social media Friday, writing that his comments demonstrate the actions of a dictator.

“This is how dictators ******** free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with ******. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant,” she wrote, adding hashtags stating “women will not be silenced” and “vote Kamala.”

Cheney endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president and has appeared on the campaign trail with the Democratic nominee as they work to persuade *********** voters who have soured on Trump to back the vice president.

A spokesman for Harris’ campaign, Ian Sams, condemned Trump’s remarks and said the former president treats those who oppose him as enemies.

“He’s spent the last month talking about the ‘****** from within’ the ******* States. And now, he’s going after Liz Cheney with this dangerous, violent rhetoric,” Sams said Friday in an interview on MSNBC. “I mean, think about the contrast between these two candidates. You have Donald Trump who is talking about sending a prominent *********** to the ******* squad, and you have Vice President Harris talking about sending one to her Cabinet. This is the difference in this race.”

Cheney was not the only *********** official who earned Trump’s ire during the event with Carlson. The former president called John Bolton, who served as Trump’s national security adviser, a “real *****” and “nut job.” Trump also lambasted former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a *********** from Illinois, as a “total whack job,” and Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, as a “watermelon head.”

The former president also reiterated his claim that there is an “****** from within,” who “would like to take down our country.”

Olivia Rinaldi and

Libby Cathey

contributed to this report.

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Melissa Quinn

Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts.

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