Vice President Kamala Harris and left-leaning media outlets quickly reacted to Trump’s comments on Thursday, accusing him of inciting violence against Liz Cheney. Trump had referred to Cheney as “a radical war hawk,” saying, “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 in her face. You know, 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 into the mouth of the enemy.’”
Speaking with Fox & Friends Weekend on Saturday, Trump criticized “the fake news” media for portraying his remarks as a call for violence, insisting that he was simply condemning Cheney for her “war hawk” stance.
“Well, it’s the fake news, and they’re trying to make something out of it, and it’s so biased to start off with,” Trump said. “All I’m saying is she’s a nutty war hawk.”
“She was a nut job, just like her father,” Trump continued. “Her father got us into the Middle East, and we spent $9 trillion dollars; we ended up killing lots of people, including, we lost a lot of people ourselves. You add up both sides, we killed millions of people, we spent $9 trillion; you know what we got? Nothing. We didn’t keep the oil. We didn’t do anything. Her father got rich doing that.”
“She’s probably worse than her father because she’s not as smart,” Trump added.
