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Andrew (narrator / presenter)
This is Donald J. Trump, the 45th and God willing, 47th president of the United States. On October 31st, Trump was being interviewed by Tucker Carlson, and while talking about disastrous foreign policy, former congresswoman Liz Cheney’s name came up.
Donald J. Trump
But the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war. She wanted to go … she wanted to stay in Syria. I took them out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if it were up to her, we’d we’d be in 50 different countries. And, you know, number one, it’s very dangerous. Number two, a lot of people get killed. And number three, I mean, it’s very, very expensive. That’s why we owe thirty six trillion dollars. […] She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrel shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained to her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh, gee, will, let’s send send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.
Andrew
So what Trump is saying, and this is an objective analysis, that Liz Cheney is a war hawk and that she might feel differently about war if she had firsthand experience of war or combat. Pretty simple stuff, right? But, you know, if you’re the dominant media, you’re not allowed to show any objectivity towards the bad orange man.
David Muir
Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air, Donald Trump at a campaign event, imagining guns shooting at Liz Cheney. Tonight, Kamala Harris says this kind of violent rhetoric makes Trump unqualified to be president. Just four days to go and the tiny sliver of undecided voters in this country could decide this race. Tonight, Donald Trump at that campaign event, imagining guns shooting at Liz Cheney, suggesting guns should be trained at her face. Vice President Kamala Harris says the country needs to turn the page on all of this, saying violent rhetoric from Trump makes him unqualified to be president again.
Andrew
You see what’s happening there, right? David Muir of ABC News is painting Trump as a violent lunatic and praising Kamala Harris as the sane voice of reason, which is hilarious, considering that just one week prior Harris called Trump a fascist and everyone who attended his rallies as Nazis.
Wolf Blitzer
Donald Trump took his violent rhetoric to a new extreme suggesting the former Republican congresswoman should be fired upon.
Erin Burnett
Saying, quote, “War hawk Liz Cheney should be fired upon.
CNN
Former president Donald Trump is escalating his violent rhetoric, suggesting one of his most prominent critics, the former congresswoman Liz Cheney, should be fired upon.
ABC
Right now on ABC News live, she should have guns trained on her face. Four days to election day, and Donald Trump’s rival Liz Cheney becomes the latest target of his violent rhetoric.

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.

Liz Cheney, via 𝕏

Unknown
The reality is, you’re talking about guns being trained on a political opponent’s head.
Unknown
Guns being trained on a political opponent’s head.
CNN
Now this latest comment about nine barrels pointed at Liz Cheney. It’s the latest escalation.
CNN
Let’s see how she feels when the guns are trained on her face. Let’s sit with that for a moment.
Andrew
So obviously, Donald Trump was taken out of context by design, because if you hear “Trump wants to point guns at Liz Cheney’s head,” well, that’s incredibly provocative. Most Americans would be and should be appalled by that kind of language, that is, you know, unless he heard the entire quote in context.
CNN
Donald Trump suggests putting Liz Cheney in the firing line.
Andrew
Wait, did he suggest it? Or did he outright say it?
CNN
Donald Trump declaring before a crowd that Cheney should be put before a firing line.
Andrew
I mean, that’s more definitive, but now it’s less accurate.
CNN
The former president saying that he would like to see guns aimed at Liz Cheney’s face.
Andrew
Trump never said, “I would like to see guns aimed at her face.” It’s one thing to take Trump out of context. It’s another to lie about the words that are coming out of his mouth.
Kyra Phillips
Trump invoked violence on Liz Cheney after saying, let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. You just can’t make this up.
Andrew
Yeah, you can. I mean, Trump wasn’t invoking violence, but Kyra Phillips, you know, made it up. Now, look, I’m no stranger to criticizing Donald Trump. If he actually called for violence against someone, I would be among the first to call him out. I would not be making excuses for it.
Jim Acosta
Donald Trump taking on Liz Cheney, telling his supporters that she should be shot.
CNN
He directly said what he thinks that happen to Liz Cheney just because she disagrees with it.
Jim Acosta
He has suggested that she should be shot.
Major Garret

Explicitly violent about a woman in public life: Liz Cheney.

Jim Acosta
Just unimaginably violent and loaded comments about Liz Cheney.
Joy Reid
Openly fantasizing about violent retribution against one of his political opponents.
Jim Acosta
Well, clearly he was saying that she should be shot.
Andrew
Are you angry yet? Well, you should be because these are some of the most blatant examples of media bias that I’ve ever seen. But in all fairness, there was the rare instance where it was reported accurately, including by Peter Alexander of NBC News.
Peter Alexander
Trump in Arizona went after Cheney, arguing she would not favor war if she was sent to the front lines.
Andrew
Again, I applaud Peter Alexander for telling the truth here. As for the rest of NBC News, not so much.
NBC
Violent threats. Donald Trump suggests sending Liz Cheney to war and says she should have guns trained on her face.
Andrew
So now Trump is violently threatening to send Cheney to war. Yeah, sure.
Lester Holt
Graphic rhetoric once again overtaking the campaign trail. Former President Trump going after Liz Cheney saying she wouldn’t be a war hawk if quote, “guns are trained on her face.” During an event in Arizona last evening in which he said his foe, former Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney, would not be such a war hawk if she had quote, “guns trained on her face.” Mr. Trump saying, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.” Trump today saying he was only pointing out that Cheney hasn’t had to face the consequences of war. But given the dark imagery of his words last night, it makes you wonder if those same words were spoken by a 14-year-old online or in a classroom or by a coworker in the workplace. Would alarm bells be sounding tonight?
Andrew
And as if it couldn’t get any worse, we now have nightly news anchors pontificating. You don’t hate the media enough, America. Now, taking Trump out of context well, that’s nothing new. The bloodbath hoax, the dictator on day one hoax, the fine people on both sides hoax. At this point it’s expected. But this one is comparatively different. It’s fearmongering at its worst.
Kyra Phillips
Now you have this threat against Liz Cheney that Trump is … is talking about a firing squad.
CNN
He basically called for executing Liz Cheney, his political rival, saying to stand her up in front of a firing squad.
Jonathan Carl
He actually suggested that Liz Cheney should face a firing squad.
CBS
Trump was suggesting a firing squad.
CNN
Suggesting that we put Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad.
Andrem
But Trump said, “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.” You don’t give someone who is supposed to be executed by firing squad a rifle. But, you know, if you’re a Democrat with an agenda, logic goes right out the window.
Lawrence O’Donnell
Kill with a firing squad, his political opponents, including a political opponent in his own party.
MSNBC
He’s talking about a firing squad for his political enemies.
MSNBC
You have Donald Trump, who’s talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad.
Joe Scarborough
Liz Cheney needs to be in a firing squad with nine barrels shooting at her.
CNN
Talking about a firing squad for a fellow Republican, fellow American out of bounds of the norms.
David Chalian
Donald Trump say talking about a firing squad for Liz Cheney.
Jim Acosta
When he says nine barrels shooting at her, that obviously evokes images of a firing squad. It evokes images of an execution, does it not?
Andrew
No, Jim Acosta. No, it doesn’t. Well, not to normal people anyway. Anyway, to no one’s surprise, Drudge Report took the incident and turned it up to 11 by saying that Trump calls for Cheney’s execution. And everyone went along with it.
Joe Scarborough
“Trump calls for Cheney execution.” And he … he … he says that she should have nine guns trained at her face.
CNN
I don’t think you even need to call it fired upon. He’s saying quite explicitly and unambiguously that Liz Cheney should be shot, should be executed by firing squad.
Michael Steele
Firing squads and executions
CNN
Let’s execute a political opponent who happens to be a woman, um … because I don’t like her.
Jim Acosta
Doesn’t isn’t he evoking images of a firing squad of an assassination?
Lawrence O’Donnell
Exactly who and how might Donald Trump want to execute if he becomes president? […] Who does he want to kill if he becomes president?
MSNBC
He said he’s gonna shoot Liz Cheney. I mean, you know, let’s shoot Liz Cheney.
Claire McCaskill
Sounds like to me he just thought she needed to die.
Andrew
Washed up Democrats such as former Senator Claire McCaskill are the first to scream about misinformation and disinformation, but at the same time, they’re always the first to spread it.
CBS
Uh, that soundbite a moment ago from Donald Trump talking about training guns on the face of Liz Cheney. The Trump campaign says that was about foreign policy. What we just played it for our viewers and listeners who heard it. Isn’t it possible to make the case without using rhetoric like that?
Marco Rubio
But Donald Trump doesn’t talk like someone who has been in Washington for 30 years.
CBS
Training guns on her face?
Marco Rubio
No, but that’s not what he said. Mario, you guys know that. Come on. I mean everybody knows exactly what he was saying. What he was saying is you’re so much in favor of war …
CBS
We played the sound bite.
Marco Rubio
No, you played a piece of the sound bite because in another piece of it, he said he would give her a gun to go stand in conflict as well. You don’t normally give a gun to someone that’s gonna be facing a firing squad, which is what much of the media made it sound like. But I think it’s truly not just unfair. It’s it’s egregious to see that reported the way that it was, along with other things that are out there. I’ve never seen such a concerted effort and … and … and I look, I’ve always believed there’s biased because no one’s unbiased, but I’ve never seen such a concerted effort, like what I’ve seen, especially in the last two weeks, among multiple media outlets in this country to in some cases, breathlessly distort and lie about what’s being said and to create and manufacture these gotcha moments against Donald Trump. I’ve never seen it before.
Andrew
And here to prove Senator Rubia’s point is the former senior advisor to vice president Kamala Harris.
Simone Sanders
Apparently, um … my conservative media friends and conservative folks are saying that the media at large, the “liberal media” has taken Donald Trump’s comments out of out of context yet again when it relates to Liz Cheney, as though Donald Trump has not regularly talked about, you know, turning the the levers of the investigative powers of the Department of Justice onto his enemies as though he has not amplified … uh … um … things like a firing squad, a military tribunals.
Andrew
So Simone Sanders says that conservatives are overreacting to the liberal media’s coverage of Trump’s Liz Cheney comments, but then seconds later claims that Trump called for Cheney to be placed in front of a firing squad and a military tribunal, which he never said. So much for self-awareness, right?

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