Trump ‘Fantasizes’ About Shooting GOP Congresswoman?

Former President Donald Trump turned up the heat on a well-worn political feud Thursday night, suggesting that former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney should face a firing squad.

The chilling comment came during a conversation with conservative media host Tucker Carlson, where Trump’s rhetoric escalated as he targeted one of his most outspoken Republican critics.

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, became a thorn in Trump’s side after she repeatedly challenged his narratives about the 2020 election and publicly supported his second impeachment in the wake of the January 6 Capitol riots.

Recently, she’s taken her critique on the road, holding town hall sessions alongside Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris in key battleground states, including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Their campaign, titled “Country Over Party,” has drawn both praise and ire from various sides of the political spectrum.

Trump, however, remains unwavering in his disdain for Cheney. The former president, known for his sharp-tongued social media tirades, has previously dubbed her “dumb as a rock” and a “war hawk,” criticisms he echoed during a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. There, he labeled Cheney as “a very dumb individual, very dumb” and “a moron.”

In his conversation with Carlson, though, Trump took it one step further, igniting controversy with a comment that seemed to suggest physical violence: “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Trump on Liz Cheney: "Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." pic.twitter.com/Mtx1fbLtwE

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Outrage over his comments was swift. Cheney, never one to shy away from confrontation, fired back in a social media post, saying, “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.”

Trump’s remarks represent an escalation in his often-combative language toward perceived political enemies, sparking alarm among some observers who worry that his rhetoric could incite real-world violence. In recent weeks, Trump has labeled political adversaries like Democratic Representatives Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi as part of an “enemy within” plot—a phrase he invoked again with Carlson.

Without naming names, he warned, “We do have an enemy from within… They’d like to take down our country. They’d like to have our country to be a nice Communist country or fascist in any way they can, and we have to be careful of that.”

Dismissing his critics, Trump concluded by calling them “the greatest con artists of all,” doubling down on his belief that there are those in power determined to subvert American values.

As Election Day draws near, Trump’s intensified language and Cheney’s “Country Over Party” crusade underscore the deepening fractures within both political parties, setting the stage for a high-stakes battle over the future of American democracy.