The Trump campaign called out “fake news” reporters on Friday morning after multiple media outlets claimed that former President Donald Trump called for Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and current Kamala Harris supporter, 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 at an event in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday night. Trump slammed Cheney as a “radical war hawk” who got to make decisions about war while “sitting in Washington in a nice building,” arguing that “she always wanted to go to war.”
“Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said.
Cheney responded to the comments, comparing Trump to a dictator and arguing that he…
