(OPINION) Vice President Kamala Harris scolded former President Trump over comments he made while attacking Liz Cheney, saying the remarks should be “disqualifying.”
“He has increased his violent rhetoric, Donald Trump has, about political opponents and in great detail suggested rifles should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney,” Harris said. “This must be disqualifying.”
“Any one who wants to be president of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is cleared disqualified and unqualified to be president,” she added.
Cheney, a Republican and vocal critic of Trump, has endorsed Harris in the 2024 election. She has cast him as a danger to democracy.
Trump mentioned Cheney at an event with Tucker Carlson in Arizona on Thursday night.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said of the former Wyoming congresswoman while also mentioning her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
“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.”
Trump was criticizing Cheney was a “war hawk” as someone who pushes for conflict while while far from a battlefield in Washington.
