Liz Cheney Condemns Donald Trump’s Comment About Her Facing “Nine Barrels Shooting At Her”: “This Is How Dictators Destroy Free Nations”

Liz Cheney condemned Donald Trump‘s use of a violent scenario as he described her as a “war hawk.”

At an event with Tucker Carlson on Thursday, Trump said of Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine guns shooting at her. et’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Cheney, who has been campaigning for Kamala Harris, wrote on X, “This is how dictators destroy free nations. 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.”

At campaign events, Trump has chided the U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts, the exception being Israel, in which he has been a defender of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the war with Hamas and Hezbollah.

Harris’ campaign seized on Trump’s remark, with spokesman Ian Sams calling it “dangerous, violent rhetoric.”

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Harris and Trump are trying to reach the remaining undecided voters while energizing their own bases of support. As such, there has been a pitched battle to drown out the other campaign’s messaging in a news cycle, seizing on certain comments and gaffes.

The Trump campaign said that the former president was talking about how “warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them with no regard for the lives lost.”

“The press has been disgracefully covering these remarks by saying that President Trump suggested that Liz Cheney should be put in front of a ‘firing squad’,” the campaign said.