President Donald Trump has blasted the “fake news” corporate media for pushing false reports that he called for former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) to be executed.
On Friday morning, the Trump campaign called out “fake news” reporters for promoting the hoax.
It comes after multiple corporate media outlets claimed that Trump called for Cheney to be “fired upon.”
The media outrage was sparked by comments made by Trump while he was speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
While speaking with Carlson at an event in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday night, Trump slammed Cheney as a “radical war hawk.”
He noted that Cheney got to make decisions about war while “sitting in Washington in a nice building.”
Trump argued that Cheney “always wanted to go to war.”
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay?” Trump said.
“Let’s see how she feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face.”
Cheney responded with Democrat-esque faux outrage while twisting the comments out of context.
She compared Trump to a dictator and falsely claimed that he made a death threat.
“This is how dictators destroy free nations,” Cheney posted on X.
“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. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala.”
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. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala https://t.co/URH5s929Sa
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) November 1, 2024
CNN’s Kasie Hunt reported on Trump’s remarks by deceptively misquoting him.
On Friday morning, Hunt said that Trump “is escalating his violent rhetoric, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be fired upon.”
“Of course, violent rhetoric is not new for Trump,” Hunt added.
“But this stark imagery represents an escalation at a tense moment when the country is on edge heading into Tuesday …”
WATCH: Donald Trump suggests @Liz_Cheney should be fired upon
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) November 1, 2024
It's an escalation of his violent rhetoric
My open of today's @CNNThisMorning
Cheney just responded to Trump — shown below https://t.co/85RJ5VGZG3 pic.twitter.com/oxV0taVsEk
The headline of Reuters’ deceptive story on the Trump comments read:
“Trump suggests Liz Cheney should face firing squad for her foreign policy stance.”
ABC News published the headline:
“Trump uses violent rhetoric to attack ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney.”
The report went on to claim that Trump “said she should face ‘nine barrels,’ appearing to suggest a firing squad.”
The Friday morning headline on the fake conservative news website Drudge Report read:
“TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY’S EXECUTION.”
Trump: "Liz Cheney is too quick to send our boys to die in war. How do you think she'd feel with all those guns pointed at her?"
— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) November 1, 2024
Drudge Report: pic.twitter.com/eRCDYSXqoq
Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s campaign also jumped on the comments, writing in a statement:
“In case you weren’t up past midnight Eastern time last night, Donald Trump sat down with Tucker Carlson in a late-night town hall where he suggested that Republican Liz Cheney should face a firing squad.”
Trump campaign Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the media’s outrage.
Leavitt blasted “every FAKE NEWS reporter taking President Trump’s remarks words out of context.”
“President Trump was CLEARLY explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves,” Leavitt wrote.
The Trump campaign added in a statement that “even the most liberal, anti-Trump voices are debunking the latest hoax manufactured by Democrat operatives and their willing accomplices in the Fake News media.”
🚨To every FAKE NEWS reporter taking President Trump’s words out of context:
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) November 1, 2024
President Trump was CLEARLY explaining that warmongers like Liz Cheney are very quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than go into combat themselves.pic.twitter.com/UlHvKszEIY
Conservative radio host Erick Erickson said:
“Ah yes, the people who said an apostrophe was implied in Biden’s remarks are rushing to claim Trump meant a firing squad, and not the front lines of a battle, for Liz Cheney.
“A dumb* remark by Trump, but fully mischaracterized by the *reporters* covering for Biden.”
The exact and full Trump quote about Liz Cheney from last night: pic.twitter.com/4PT7Yg5K8w
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 1, 2024
Megyn Kelly added: “Look at the dishonesty.
“Trump says Liz Cheney is a warmonger who isn’t the one endangered by her pro-war decisions.
“Says let’s see her stare down the danger she wants for our kids – and this ‘reporter’ suggests he’s ‘darkly floating’ her execution.”
