Haters of former President Donald Trump are spinning their latest distortion after Trump’s interview Thursday night with commentator Tucker Carlson.
Trump’s argument was that he thinks former Rep. Liz Cheney and other neocons are quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them with no regard for the lives lost. The Kamala Harris campaign and her media allies quickly pounced, claiming that Trump wanted Cheney executed before a firing squad. Cheney quickly reacted and called Trump a “tyrant.”
That’s clearly a deeply dishonest spin and distortion. Trump was plainly talking about combat zones and how terrible it is to be in a combat zone. He was not specifically suggesting anything about Cheney being targeted for a firing squad.
Don’t be fooled. The Left is bordering on an insane level of Orwellian distortion. Here is the context of Trump’s comments:
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, we’ll … Let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
The Trump campaign issued a statement calling the distortion “The Fake News Media‘s Latest Hoax,” stating: “President Trump was clearly describing a combat zone. Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris, if elected, would continue to plunge the U.S. deeper into war leading to World War 3 and allow innocent men and women to die in that conflict.”
There are at least some honest voices calling foul, with some of even the most liberal, anti-Trump voices debunking this nonsense.
For example, Never Trumper Joe Walsh, a former GOP congressman: “Trump did NOT call for Liz Cheney to be executed. This is what’s so wrong with our politics today. … This short clip is so deceptive. Trump is NOT calling for Liz Cheney to be executed in front of a firing line. He’s not. Listen to the entirety of what he said. … [H]e’s trying to make a point about Cheney’s stance on war. But Aaron [Rupar] (who I like & respect), by posting ONLY this 11 second clip, makes it look like he’s calling for her to be executed. He’s not.”
Some sanity also from Vox’s Zach Beauchamp: “Folks, Trump didn’t threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chicken hawk, something liberals said about her for ages. Look at the context—Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren’t armed.”
Our world is on fire due to the failures of the Biden-Harris administration’s weakness, which enables dictators and emboldens conflict. It began with the collapse of Afghanistan in August 2021. Sadly, now Afghan women are treated as second-class chattel under the Taliban and the United States lost an estimated $80 billion taxpayer investment in equipment and training. Thirteen American service members died in the botched withdrawal, which failed to meet the conditions outlined by the Trump White House.
Russian President Vladimir Putin saw America’s weakness in Afghanistan and felt emboldened to invade Ukraine, causing immense bloodshed and property damage to Ukrainian innocents. Failed Biden-Harris energy policy also strengthened the Russian treasury.
Biden-Harris failures continued through its failed Iranian policy, which enabled the release of billions of dollars to a despotic Iranian regime. It used the funds to finance terrorism and killing through proxies in Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen. Now, the Middle East is on fire—a sharp contrast to the Trump administration’s Abraham Accords, which brokered peace between Arabs and Jews.
Don’t be distracted by this attempt to wave a shiny object away from the truth: Trump’s record is peace through strength. Harris’ record is incompetence ending in global bloodshed—excused and justified by Cheney and others like her.
Carrie Sheffield is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice.
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