At an event Thursday night, Trump said the former congresswoman wouldn't be a "war hawk" if guns were "trained on her face."

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.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The actual transcript:

    And [former U.S. Vice President Dick] Cheney was so, he said, I really want to thank you. He said, now, I’m so glad that I actually endorsed you. It’s amazing but that you would do this and I didn’t speak to him about it. But then, you know, go a couple of years forward now and I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter. But his 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.

    • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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.