Summary
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced her office is examining whether Donald Trump’s recent remarks about former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, made during an event with Tucker Carlson, could qualify as a death threat under Arizona law. Trump suggested that Cheney might reconsider her “war hawk” stance if guns were “trained on her face," prompting Mayes to instruct her criminal division to investigate.
Vice President Kamala Harris condemned Trump’s rhetoric, calling it “disqualifying” and warning of his “increasingly unstable and unhinged” behavior.
The actual transcript:
But [Dick Cheney’s] daughter is a very dumb individual, very dumb. She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. OK, 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. Well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy, but she’s a stupid person. And I used to have, I have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people.
I’m no fan of Trump but this is unambiguously not a threat. The clear meaning is that she would would change her mind if she was one of the soldiers who would be fighting a war that she supports, not that Trump would threaten her with a gun until she changed her mind.
Its sure as hell is a stupid threatening way to put it.
He could have said something far more professional like, I don’t know:
“She constantly wants to go to war but she doesn’t understand what that is really like. Put her in the boots of a soldier and see how she holds up and maybe she would have some empathy.”
Fuck Trump, he can’t even speak like an adult or form a proper statement. There are so many ways this could have been executed in a professional manner. It is a threat regardless of you and the 25+ upvotes. The projection here is this is how a from of punishment for this kind of thing is seen in his world view.
By the way, he also knows jack shit about being in a war or being a soldier. Why don’t we also put him in a military uniform and put him on the frontlines. This is fucking Trump just being fucking Trump.
He could have said something far more professional
He’s Donald Trump. No he couldn’t.
Just look at that word salad. I bet getting dressed is a real struggle for him
Yeah, how can you even tell whether or not he made a threat? Does he even know?
Lock. Him. Up.
"It’s easy for her to talk, sitting far from where the death scenes take place, but put a gun in her hand, and let her go fight, and she’ll say, ‘No thanks!’” This from a guy who discusses deploying troops in America against Americans, yet dodged the Vietnam draft with fake medical issues.
I’m too exhausted with this asshole to make a joke about bone spurs.
Can Netflix or whoever cancel America already? It’s getting too fucking repetitive.
I’m pretty sure that, if he were to do such a thing, Kamala Harris would be just one of many people fighting back. And, yeah, with a gun.
Merrick Garland: “Wait, they can do that?”
I’m not one to defend Trump…ever…but this one is ridiculous. He was talking about war and whether she would push for war if she had to go into combat. If anything, this investigation plays into Trump’s hands.
If convicted felons can’t vote, how can they run for *any office? How is this happening? In Israel the only thing keeping him out of jail is being in office. What is this here? What am I missing about this timeline?
Thank fucking Christ he’s old and will be dead soon. That’s all I’m holding onto right now.
Yes, but this election will determine whether he dies while on the White house toilet or a prison toilet.
Did you imagine what could be the country with JD Vance as president if Trump die of old (or fat) age?
I find this even more disturbing than Trump being president.
That is precisely the plan. Vance is a comparatively stable predictable tool. No way he can win re-election on his own, but that won’t be necessary after he has a year or two in the white house.
Maybe they should go fight in the wars they start. The sentiment isn’t wrong. Who can even claim this is some kind of violent threat with a straight face.
You don’t actually think this will finally be the time he suffers actual legal consequences, do you? He’s the greasiest mf in America.
Liz Cheney had an insanely high percentage of voting with Trump on legislation. Like 95%+. Way way higher than Elise Stefanik, who took her place in house leadership, because Stefanik was loyal on election denial.
It is insane that anyone is fighting over Cheney vs Trump. None of them are good for America.
But there are conservative-leaning never trumpers who have an ounce of moral standards that doesn’t let them vote for Trump who is unquestionably worse than Liz Cheney in every way (namely, she didn’t try to overthrow democracy on January 6th and continue to peddle the Big Lie).
It is these voters Liz Cheney seeks for Harris and it’s clearly scaring the fuck out of Trump lol
