Nov 1, 2024
Trump Suggests Liz Cheney Have Guns 'Trained On Her Face'
Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash after telling Tucker Carlson that congresswoman Liz Cheney should have guns “trained on her face.”
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Is it weird for you to see Liz Cheney?
That'd be Dick Cheney's
repulsive little daughter
running against you with Kamala Harris.
She's a radical war hawk.
Let's put her with a rifle standing there
with nine barrel shooting at her.
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Okay, let's see how she feels about it.
You know, when the guns are trained on
her face, you know, they're all war hawks
when they're sitting in Washington
in a nice building saying,
oh, gee, Will,
let's send let's send 10,000 troops
right into the mouth of the enemy.
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Okay, so that is Donald Trump using the
sort of violent language in regard to his
critics that has become, I guess, just
expected, almost cliched at this point.
Although people's response
to this particular comment really depends
on what you think he was attempting to do.
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There he is.
He is, of course, conjuring up the image
of Liz Cheney, a prominent
critic of his being surrounded by guns.
He is also talking about the fact
that she is in fact historically
a war hawk, and he's going to try
to make that case in this clip.
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The reason she couldn't stand me
is that she always wanted
to go to war with people.
I don't want to go to war.
She wanted to go.
She wanted to stay in Syria.
I took him out.
She wanted to stay in Iraq.
I took him out.
I mean, if it were up to her, we'd.
We'd be in 50 different countries.
But she's a stupid person.
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And I used to have I'd have
meetings with a lot of people.
And she always wanted
to go to war with people.
Okay, so the fictional pulling out of wars
that he definitely
did not actually do aside.
So you have
a little mixed up situation there.
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He's referring to her as being a war hawk.
He's pretending that that's why he has a
problem with her, when it's just the fact
that she doesn't support him.
Loyalty is the only thing that matters.
But of course, the way that he chose
to sort of advertise this idea to a crowd
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of people in the audience, is to create
the image of her being surrounded by guns.
Now, is this the greatest provocative
thing that he's come up with?
No. He has more directly endorsed
military tribunals against Liz Cheney.
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His calls for her to potentially be tried
and perhaps executed for treason
have been more explicit in the past,
but a lot of people are angry about this
and we'll just throw one out.
Liz Cheney didn't appreciate this.
She said, this is how dictators
destroy free nations.
They threaten those
who speak against them with death.
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We cannot entrust our country and our
freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel,
unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.
And of course, Donald Trump has been
talking a lot about the enemy within
the enemy of the people, the military,
the National Guard being deployed
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against Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi.
And so this seems to fit
in a new genre of his vindictive focus.
But what do you make of this?
Do you think the criticisms are fair?
Yeah, well, it depends
on which criticism you're talking about.
So some folks are saying that he called
for the execution of Liz Cheney.
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No he didn't.
He was criticizing him
for being a war hawk.
I'm sorry. That's true too.
But a chicken hawk in particular.
And I've done a version of this
where I say they never want to go to war.
In fact, I've done it about Dick Cheney,
and I forget if he got.
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Oh, I remember now he had five deferments,
and I used to kid around and say that when
the Democrats were running against him,
they should say that he
got seven deferments
so that he would have to clarify.
No, I only got five from Vietnam
because he didn't want to fight that war.
And Republicans at the time,
Tom Delay, Gingrich, Trump, Cheney all
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had excuses like, oh, one of them said
the minorities took my spot.
Really? They took your spot to die.
And you were like, oh no, golly gee.
And of course, let's not forget
the biggest chicken hawk of all, Donald J.
Trump, who's like, oh, I got bone spurs.
Oh, I got bone spurs, right.
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Well which foot do you have
the bone spurs in I forget both maybe.
Yeah.
It was a fake doctor's note
that's already been exposed.
He's a spoiled little, you know, child
that got out of the war
because his dad was rich.
Now you say, well, maybe he's not a
chickenhawk because he's anti-war, is he?
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He just said to bomb Iran, right?
He killed their top general.
He moved our embassy in Israel.
He has done one provocative thing after
another, after another, after another.
And then and then, of course,
like a spoiled little kid,
he runs away and goes, I didn't do it.
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I didn't do it right.
Somebody else broke that jar.
Okay, yeah, maybe.
So if you think this guy is going
to lead to peace, I think you're totally
and utterly mistaken.
His criticism of Liz Cheney
and Dick Cheney I got no problems with.
I share that criticism.
But in the midst of a race where everybody
is worried about political violence,
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saying that you should point out
that he talking about fantasizing
almost about pointing a gun at her face.
Not the right way to go.
Obviously not the right way to go.
And why I get frustrated sometimes
is that members of the press
or the Democratic Party is that when they
say that he called to shoot her in front
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of a firing squad, which I've seen.
Well, you lost credibility for no reason.
And then it makes people go,
no, he didn't say that.
And then you can devolve into
a conversation about whether Liz Cheney
is a chickenhawk, which she is.
What is her dad?
What about when he like re truth
the statement she should face
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a televised military tribunal?
Yeah.
I mean, look,
what is these military tribunals?
If people are accusing you
of being a fascist, you should shut
the f up about military tribunals.
Unless you think that that they're correct
or he doesn't understand anything.
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He's like, I don't know
what they're calling me a fascist.
I said, terminate the Constitution.
I did a fake elector plot
to overturn and steal an election.
And then I want my enemies,
my enemies from within,
to either be shot by the military
or go in front of a military tribunal.
I don't know, I don't know why.
Okay, so look, yes, he says all those
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things, but when you say that he called
for her execution and he didn't, then all
of a sudden, nobody's listening to you.
And I want them to listen.
I want him to listen when he says,
terminate the Constitution
and go in front of military tribunals.
So this was a really dumb thing
for Trump to say, and it will cost him
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at the same time, please don't overhype
because that is counterproductive.
So frustrating. Anyways, Sharon.
I don't mean to frustrate you more,
but allow me to overhype it.
I believe he was absolutely
fantasizing about her death.
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I believe that he would like
to see her hurt or killed.
Remember, this is a guy
whose best friends are are Putin
and the other guy who's in North Korea who
loves to starve and kill his own people
and push him off buildings and stuff.
So I know what a tribunal and nine guns
pointed at her means to Trump.
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I think we still don't know who left
the pipe bomb outside DNC headquarters.
As more he spouts off, people do weird
things like, I don't know, show up on
January 6th, threaten to hang people.
A woman died.
Officers hurt. Another officer dies.
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Related to this, I think he absolutely
is fantasizing about killing her.
He hates her.
And he does wish she were dead.
Well, here is what he is saying
directly coming out of this.
We have to be fair and balanced.
So this is what he bleated earlier today.
All I'm saying about Liz Cheney
is that she is a capital W war hawk,
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and a dumb one at that, but she wouldn't
have in quotes the guts to fight herself.
It's easy for her to talk sitting far
from where the death scenes take place.
Can I just pause for a second?
Life is, in fact, not a movie.
I don't know what the death scenes are.
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These are not scenes.
These are actual things that happen.
And yes, actual people die in the wars
that the Cheneys try
to push us into actual people also die
in the many wars that you inherited
when you became president,
and you continued until the literal day
that you were dragged kicking
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and screaming out of the white House.
You did not pull us out of those wars.
You've been whining ever since Biden
pulled us out of one of those wars.
And as you pointed out,
he's making threats against Iran.
He's the one talking about bombing
drug labs in Mexico,
effectively declaring war on Mexico,
as Marjorie Greene does the same.
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He is in no way a dove.
He would 100% pull us into other wars
and support dictators around the world,
continuing theirs.
But he goes on to say her father
decimated the Middle East
and other places and got rich by doing so.
He's caused plenty of death
and probably never even gave it a thought.
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That's not what we want
running our capitalist country.
That criticism of the Cheneys
is totally accurate, and I not a political
commentator at that point, just a stupid
college kid, opposed those wars because I
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suspected that's what was going on.
Just for the record, do you know
who did not oppose those wars?
Donald Trump, who was on radio shows
and said he didn't really seem to care
whether we went to war,
but like when he'd be asked to be like,
yeah, I guess I support it.
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That's what he actually thought about it,
as the Cheneys were war hawks
or chicken walking us into wars.
He was like, whatever, I don't care,
I'm just trying to get laid, man.
Anyway. Any other thoughts?
Yeah, well, that part is literal.
I don't want you guys to not know that.
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He joked to Howard Stern that during
Vietnam, avoiding STDs at the orgies he
was going to was his own personal Vietnam,
while others went to go die for him.
So now, look, I'm going to do one last
thing for the Republicans in a second.
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First of all, look,
I we have diversity of opinion here.
I don't agree with Sharon.
I don't think that it was him doing
a death fantasy, etc., but everybody's got
a different point of view on it.
I think the Harris team
embracing the Cheneys is a disaster.
And if you keep talking
about this story long enough,
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what it's going to happen is it's going to
turn from Trump being unstable and saying
things he shouldn't say to Trump being
anti-war and Kamala Harris being pro-war.
Be careful.
Just get in and get out of this story.
It's he's unstable.
That should be the point of the story.
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I think people are making a mistake
by digging in further.
Having said that, one more thing
about why this was so terrible.
Guys, imagine if you're a Republican.
Imagine a Democrat said, oh, you know
what I thought Trump is a chickenhawk.
He should have gone to Vietnam.
He lied about the bone spurs, etc.
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And it's easy for him to say,
oh yeah, I'm so tough for battling ISIS
and killing Soleimani, etc.
But imagine if there was a nice gun
pointed in Trump's face.
You know what Republicans would do?
They lose their minds.
They'd be like, oh my God,
there was an assassination attempt.
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And look at what the Democrats are doing.
They're getting trying to get people
onto violence and they're instigating
and they're the worst.
So yes.
- Same.
- Thing applies to Trump.
Do not talk about pointing guns
in people's faces, especially
at a really volatile time like this.
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It's the bare minimum,
but he can't ever do the bare minimum.
- Agreed.
- Can I just say this?
I do think you're right that the Democrats
should not lean into this.
It doesn't really serve
any any good purpose for them
as we're so close to Election Day.
But I also want to say this as Trump, he's
right about the Cheneys and he's right
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about people getting rich off of war.
But I think it's stunningly hypocritical
for him to even go there
as he talks about a bloody deportation of
15 to 20 million people as his first act.
And I'm reading all kinds of things
about how his rich friends will.
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They're already standing in line
with their business licenses.
They'll get rich off of that
should it ever happen.
Yeah.
And also, like, I think everybody knows
why it would be a bad thing to send U.S.
Soldiers into a bunch of other countries
to fight some sort of war.
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Building by building.
But bear in mind that as you're
alluding to, he is saying we should send
the military into American cities
to root out millions of immigrants.
Would he do that?
Would he take a gun and start trying
to hunt down members of Guatemalan gangs
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in Cleveland or whatever?
Because if he wouldn't,
apparently he should shut the hell up
about the whole thing.
In any event, the final comment
the Harris campaign said, quote, this must
be disqualifying and I could be wrong,
but my prediction is that it will not be.
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