When former President Donald Trump criticized former Rep. Liz Cheney for trying to push Americans into war, the legacy media rushed to her defense, twisting Trump’s words to make it seem like he was threatening her with a firing squad.
“She’s a radical warhawk. Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all warhawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy,’” Trump said Thursday at a campaign event with Tucker Carlson.
Clearly, Trump was saying Cheney wants to send Americans to die in overseas wars. He pointed out she — and other D.C. elites in the military-industrial complex — would never put themselves in the positions they are placing the nation’s soldiers.
“I’d have meetings with a lot of people, and she always wanted to go to war with people,” Trump said.
But legacy media, in typical style, cherry-picked Trump’s comments to make it seem he — not Cheney — was inciting violence.
“Trump uses violent rhetoric to attack ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney,” reads a headline from Good Morning America. The host attacked Trump and applauded Harris during Friday morning’s show.
She said Trump was using “increasing dark and violent rhetoric against his political rivals … even suggesting former House Republican leader Liz Cheney, who has endorsed Kamala Harris, be put in
