No one knows how Election Day will turn out.
But if the press’s panicked behavior this week is any sign, including its false claim that former President Donald Trump called for Republican critic Liz Cheney to be executed by firing squad, things won’t go well for Vice President Kamala Harris.
A confident team doesn’t resort to these types of desperate measures.
During a conversation Thursday with right-wing provocateur Tucker Carlson, Trump criticized Cheney for her foreign policy positions, many of which call for U.S. engagement in overseas conflicts. In criticizing Cheney, Trump trotted out warmed-over anti-war rhetoric.
Liz Cheney is “a deranged person,” the GOP nominee said, “but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war. She wanted to go – she wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if [it] were up to her, we’d, we’d be in 50 different countries. She’s a radical war hawk.”
He then said, “Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh, gee, well, let’s send, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.”
Much of the press feigned horror, scrambling to report that the former president had called for Cheney’s execution.
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