November 1, 2024, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris 2024 presidential election news

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Former President Trump clarified Friday that he meant that former Rep. Liz Cheney didn't have the “courage” to fight on the front lines of the war after he received backlash from Democrats over his comments Thursday, that weapons were pointed at them.

“All I say about Liz Cheney is that she's a War Hawk, and a stupid one at that, but she wouldn't have the courage to fight herself,” the Republican presidential candidate wrote on Truth Social. “It's easy for her to talk when she's sitting far away from the death scenes, but if you put a gun in her hand and let her fight, she'll say, 'No thanks!' Your father decimated the Middle East and other places and became rich because of it. He caused a lot of DEATH and probably never thought about the fact that we want to run our country.

Trump caused controversy when he called Cheney a “radical war hawk” at an event in Arizona on Thursday and added: “Let's put her there with a nine-barreled gun shooting at her, okay?” Let's see how she feels about it. You.” You know, when the guns are pointed in their faces, they're all war hawks when they sit in a nice building in Washington and say, “Oh, man, let's send 10,000 soldiers into the mouths of the enemy,” but She is a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people.

Trump also told reporters on Friday at a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan: “Even when I was in office, she pushed for us to go to war with everyone, and I said if you would ever give her a rifle and let her fight, If.” If you ever did that, she wouldn't be doing so well, I'm telling you that now. But she's a war hawk. She wants to kill people unnecessarily.

The comments led to accusations from liberals of violent rhetoric and Trump suggesting Cheney should face a firing squad. “

“He has increased his violent rhetoric against political opponents – Donald Trump – and suggested in great detail that guns should be pointed at former Rep. Liz Cheney,” Vice President Harris told reporters in a news conference on Friday. “That has to be disqualifying. Anyone who wants to be President of the United States and uses this type of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unfit to be President.”

Cheney, a Republican, endorsed Harris for president in September and campaigned with the Democratic nominee.

Brie Stimson of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.