If you woke up Friday morning and glanced at the headlines of any major media outlet, you would think former President Donald Trump had threatened former Rep. Liz Cheney with execution by firing squad. Four days before the election, you would think Trump had just said, on a stage in Arizona with Tucker Carlson, that if elected he would have Cheney killed.
He didn’t say that of course. It was and is a massive media and Harris campaign psy-op designed to interfere in the election, suppress and depress GOP voters, and set the stage for denying Trump the presidency if he wins at the ballot box on Tuesday.
Here’s a sampling of what the press said. “Trump threatens ex-Rep. Liz Cheney with execution by firing squad,” blared a headline from New York Daily News. The New York Times was only slightly more subtle in its headline, “Trump Assails Liz Cheney and Imagines Guns ‘Shooting at Her.’” Not to be outdone, The Washington Post went with “Trump embraces violent rhetoric, suggests Liz Cheney should have guns ‘trained on her face,’” while CNN declared, “Trump says ‘war hawk’ Liz Cheney should be fired upon in escalation of violent rhetoric against his opponents.”
None of that is true. Anyone who watched the full clip of Trump’s comments could see for himself that Trump was talking about how Cheney is a neocon war hawk who doesn’t have the guts to face the consequences of her own policies. He said, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle,
