Before his mainstream media colleagues continue to write that former President Donald Trump wanted he could see former Congresswoman Liz Cheney put in front of a firing squad, a reporter with the infamously liberal media company Vox is urging them to change their ways.
Zack Beauchamp wrote on X that Trump referred to Cheney as a “radical war hawk” on Thursday because of her prior backing of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, “something liberals said about her for ages.” He continued by saying that it’s critical that other reporters evaluate the “context” of his comments. “Trump is discussing granting her a weapon.” People placed in front of firing squads are usually unarmed.
President Trump veered into open contempt for the anti-Trump Republican who assisted in placing the blame for J6 at his feet during a rally in Glendale, Arizona. She is an extreme warhawk. Alright, let’s have her standing there with a gun pointing nine barrels at her. Let’s see what she thinks of it. He said to the audience, “You know, when the guns are trained on her face.” “When they sit in a nice building in Washington and say, ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right in the enemy’s mouth,’ they are all war hawks.”
Given the barrage of headlines implying that Trump was once again inciting violence against a political rival, Beauchamp might be right. The Republican’s speech “reverts to violent rhetoric,” according to Politico, while the headline for Reuters read, “Trump suggests Liz Cheney should face firing squad for her foreign policy stance.” In a statement of her own, Cheney, who has benefited from her anti-Trump reputation through book agreements and campaign appearances in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris, leaned into the criticism. “Dictators obliterate free nations in this manner. They threaten to kill everyone who criticizes them,” Cheney wrote on X on Friday. “A petty, spiteful, cruel, unstable man who aspires to be a tyrant cannot be trusted with our nation and our freedom.”
The Harris campaign continued, claiming that Trump was referring to a typical firing squad when he used the term “nine barrels.” However, Beauchamp believes that the outcry undermines what he and other “defenders of democracy” believe to be Trump’s harmful rhetoric. He continued his article by saying, “It’s actually counterproductive to get outraged about fake ones, because Trump does so many offensive things, and he makes so many anti-democratic promises.” Accurately describing what Trump said is not “defending” him; rather, it is a matter of basic intellectual integrity. We in the media maintain our credibility by speaking the truth, particularly when we regularly (and rightly!) criticize Trump.
One of the final opportunities Harris and his supporters are taking advantage of in the final days of the campaign is President Trump’s remarks against Cheney. Harris and his supporters attempted to rally Puerto Rican swing state communities when a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally called the territory a “floating island of garbage.” Trump “does not respect the freedom of women,” Harris told reporters Thursday, citing another recent statement in which he said he would defend women “whether they like it or not.” The Biden-Harris administration hasn’t gotten out of its own way despite all the rhetoric. President Biden called MAGA supporters “garbage” on Wednesday, and the AP said Thursday that White House press officials may have violated federal law by publishing an edited transcript of his remarks despite the head stenographer’s opposition.
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