Former President Donald Trump said Sunday he wouldn’t “mind” if someone shot through the area where press were assembled at his rally in Pennsylvania—days after he ignited fierce backlash over his suggestion that former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., should have guns “trained on her face.”
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Trump, discussing the logistics of another potential assassination attempt against him, said “to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much,” as the crowd in Lititz, Pa., erupted in laughter.
Trump made the comments while pointing out how he is now protected by a class encasement at his rallies since a gunman shot him at an event in July, noting that there is no such barrier surrounding the designated press area.
The remark comes days after Trump criticized Cheney as a “radical war hawk” during an event with ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday: “Let’s see how [Cheney] feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face . . . let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.”
Trump made the comments while questioning how Cheney would handle combat and claiming she would send troops into war zones if she had a White House role in military decisions in a potential Harris administration.
Trump also told his supporters at the rally Sunday in Lititz he “shouldn’t have left” the White House after his 2020 loss (referring to the state of the border when he left)), ranted about what he claims are incorrect polls that show him trailing Harris and called Democrats “demonic.” Trump also reprised some of his disproven claims about rampant fraud in the 2020 election and predicted they would be repeated this year, including the hacking of voter machines.
Trump’s comments about Cheney were widely criticized, with Cheney tweeting “this is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death.” Harris campaign senior advisor Ian Sams slammed the remarks as “dangerous, violent rhetoric” in a Friday MSNBC interview. The Arizona Attorney General’s office also said it was investigating whether the comments violated Arizona law. Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, are among a growing number of Republicans who have endorsed Harris for president, including former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and son of late Sen. John McCain, Jimmy McCain.
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