Kamala Harris slammed Donald Trump for his comments about Liz Cheney, saying it “disqualified” him from becoming president.
Trump said Thursday at an event with Tucker Carlson that Cheney, the former Republican congresswomen who supported Harris, should be put on a battlefield “with nine barrels shooting in her face.”
Democrats immediately criticized him for the comment, but Harris went a step further and said Trump should no longer be in the presidential race.
“This should be disqualifying,” Harris told reporters in Wisconsin. “Anyone who wants to be president of the United States and uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and not qualified to be president.”
“This should be disqualifying,” Kamala Harris said of Trump’s comment about Liz Cheney
She called Cheney “a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting country before party.”
‘However, Trump views his political opponents as the enemy, is permanently out for revenge and is becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged. His enemies list has grown longer.”
“His rhetoric has become more extreme and he is even less focused than before on the needs, concerns and challenges facing the American people,” Harris added.
The Democratic nominees said she has not spoken to Cheney since Trump’s comment.
Trump has long railed against Cheney, who criticized him for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection and was one of two Republican lawmakers who served on the House committee that investigated the case.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said of her Thursday evening at an event at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. “Let’s put her there with a gun while nine barrels shoot her, okay? Let’s see what she thinks about it. You know, when the guns are pointed at her face.”
Both Cheney and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, have endorsed Harris.
Trump had mentioned Liz Cheney’s father before unleashing the tirade.
‘I don’t blame him for staying with his daughter. But his daughter is a very stupid individual, very stupid,” Trump said.
“Let’s put her there with a gun while nine barrels shoot her, okay? Let’s see what she thinks about it. You know, when the guns are pointed at her face,” Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson about Liz Cheney
Liz Cheney has endorsed and campaigned on Kamala Harris
Cheney took to social media to respond to Trump, saying, “This is how dictators destroy free nations.”
“They threaten those who speak out against them with death,” she wrote in the post. “We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vengeful, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”
Trump’s campaign said the former president criticized Cheney’s aggressive foreign policy, and that was true misrepresented in the media.
“President Trump is 100 percent right when he says warmongers like Liz Cheney are quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight them, rather than fighting them themselves,” Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said.
“This is the continuation of the latest fake media outrage days before the election, in a blatant attempt to interfere on behalf of Kamala Harris.”
But Trump has long been a Cheney critic.
In March, Trump called for Cheney to be jailed for her role in the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Cheney should go to prison “along with the rest” of the January 6 House Select Committee.